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Superior Tube Company founded near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Clarence A. Warden Sr., Clarence A. Warden Jr., S. L. Gabel, and Richard H. Gabel.

Our first order for nickel tubing was received from the National Union Radio Corporation of Newark, New Jersey.

Superior became one of the nation’s largest producers of seamless, stainless steel hypodermic needle tubing.

1st US Patent granted Superior for 'Cathode for Thermionic Valves'.

Exhibits 'World's Smallest Tube' at the New York World's Fair sparking a 25 year 'smallest tube' race with British firm Accles & Pollock Ltd.

Began as an outgrowth of Hamilton Watch Company.

Installed two tube reducers for integration with cold drawing operations.

We opened our second plant, which became the nation’s major source for vacuum tube parts used in ordnance proximity fuzes.

Superior Tube produced the first beryllium copper aircraft antenna for Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow, the first aircraft specifically designed to use radar.

The company won the Army-Navy E Award for excellence in the production of war equipment.

Following WWII beryllium copper 'antenna' tapered tubing was produced for fresh and salt water fishing rods.

Superior Tube signed an agreement with Air Material Command to survey European cathode producers, leading to our first visit to Fine Tubes Ltd, then based in Surbiton, United Kingdom.

Started supplying precision strip and foil to other companies.

Superior Tube Inc and Fine Tubes Ltd formed an affiliation.

200,000 feet of cladding were supplied to for Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania. It was the world’s first full-scale nuclear power station devoted exclusively to producing electricity for a civilian population, and opened in 1957.

Hamilton Precision supported the Apollo space program by engineering ultra thin Permalloy® foil at 0.000125" (3.2 microns) thickness for use in magnetic computer cores within Apollo guidance systems.

The last "Hamilton" Watch is manufactured.

Hamilton Precision Metals relocates to present facility in Lancaster, PA, USA, and adds Z-Hi Mill.

Katy Industries acquires HPM Hamilton Precision Metals.

Hamilton Precision Metals becomes ISO 9002 Certified and expands product capabilities with new ZR 24 14" rolling mill.

Superior Tube’s proprietary tube rolling process was used to produce titanium alloy tubing for artificial heart valve frames

The Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers were launched with Superior Tube’s tubing on board

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar nuclear reactor facility received tritium producing fuel assemblies using Zr4 tubing made by Superior Tube

Superior Tube purchased the world’s smallest 10-roll straightener from Turner Machine after a joint design effort for coronary stent tubing

Establishes exclusive representation in Europe.

Management and Cedar Creek Partners acquires Hamilton Precision Metals.

Hamilton Precision Metals upgrades to ISO 9001:2000.

Hires sales organization in China.

Addition of ZR 32 4" rolling mill increases foil product capacity.

Hires sales organization in Israel.

Hamilton Precision Metals is acquired by AMETEK Inc.

Employees past and present celebrated 75 years of innovation and tradition at Superior Tube in 2009

Superior Tube headoffice and tube mill in Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Author Frank H Winter was commissioned to write a book chronicling the company’s history, entitled Superior – Land, Sea, Air, and Space

Develops Titanium Grade 23 (Ti 6/4 ELI) strip in partnership with AMETEK Wallingford for implantable medical enclosures.

Superior Tube Inc sold to the Watermill Group along with affiliate Fine Tubes Ltd

Superior Tube received the "2014 Industry of the Year Award" from The Tube & Pipe Journal, an industry publication produced by The Fabricators & Manufacturer's Association, Int.

Superior Tube is acquired by AMETEK Inc.

Manufactures Titanium Grade 9 strip for implantable shields in medical devices.

Superior Tube engineers advanced alloy tubing for next-generation space stations.

Supplies metal strain gauge foils for unmanned vending machines aimed at poverty alleviation in Asia.