Simpson Manufacturing Company is an engineering firm and
building materials producer in the United States that produces
structural connector
A tie, strap, tie rod, eyebar, guy-wire, suspension cables, or wire ropes, are examples of linear structural components designed to resist tension. It is the opposite of a strut or column, which is designed to resist compression. Ties may be mad ...
s, anchors, and products for new construction and retrofitting.
The company was founded by Barclay Simpson in
Oakland in 1956, as a successor to his father's
window screen
A window screen (also known as insect screen, bug screen, fly screen, flywire, wire mesh, or window net) is designed to cover the opening of a window. It is usually a mesh made of metal, fiberglass, fibreglass, plastic wire, or other pieces of ...
company.
[Sam Whiting]
"Barclay Simpson, philanthropist and building supplies titan, dies"
''San Francisco Chronicle
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'', November 18, 2014. Simpson manufactured
joist hangers and the company's subsidiary Simpson Strong-Tie Co. Inc. became a dominant producer of structural connectors in North America and Europe.
[ The company subsequently moved to ]Pleasanton Pleasanton may refer to:
Places
* Pleasanton, California
* Pleasanton, Iowa
* Pleasanton, Kansas
* Pleasanton, Nebraska
* Pleasanton, New Mexico
* Pleasanton, Ohio
* Pleasanton, Texas
* Pleasanton Township, Michigan
Other
* Pleasanton High School ...
and went public
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* Initial public offering, financial action by a business
* Whistleblowing, exposure of previously private information
* ''Going Public'' (Newsboys album), 1994
* ''Going Public'' (Bruce Johnston album), 1977
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in 1994.[Neil Henry]
"Barclay Simpson: An Oral History"
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2012–13.
References
Industrial supply companies
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Manufacturing companies established in 1956
1956 establishments in California
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