| 1906 |
Harry Read Founded The Read Machinery Co. Inc |
| 1916 |
Ad in Bakers Review The Original Read Mixer |
| 1920 |
One of the world’s largest bakery machinery manufacturers |
| 1920 |
Becomes one of the world’s largest bakery machinery manufacturers; Builds 2nd plant in York, PA to handle increased production demand |
| 1921 |
Glen Rock Site destroyed in fire |
| 1929 |
Product line expanded for the Chemical Industry, thus creating the Chemical Division |
| 1938 |
War Contract with US Army |
| 1941 |
Engineering and Manufacturing of Portable Bakeries Begins |
| 1941 |
Engineering and manufacturing of portable bakeries begins, including mixers and ovens to supply Army camps of up to 70,000 men |
| 1946 |
Manufacturing Focus Returns to Commercial Bakery Equipment |
| 1950 |
Production Shift to More Industrial Mixing Equipment |
| 1950 |
Production shift to more industrial mixing equipment, became a strong leader for the manufacturing of Sigma Blade Mixers and Ribbon Blenders |
| 1957 |
Acquired screw conveyor assets of Standard Stoker Co. |
| 1957 |
Acquired screw conveyor assets of Standard Stoker Co.; these would inspire the design of the Continuous Processor |
| 1959 |
Bought by Capital Products Corp. becoming Read Standard Corporation |
| 1961 |
Patent for Continuous Processor filed and first one built |
| 1963 |
Renamed Read Corporation |
| 1963 |
Bought by local investors Renamed Read Corporation, development of Continuous Processor continues |
| 1968 |
Bought by Teledyne becoming Teledyne Readco |
| 1975 |
Product Line Expanded to Include High Intensity Mixers |
| 1975 |
Product line expanded to include high intensity mixers, continuous ribbon blenders, continuous processing conveyors, pellet mixers, and many others |
| 1982 |
Manufacturing Refocused to Mixing Equipment |
| 1982 |
Manufacturing refocused to mixing equipment, welding manipulators, rollers, and other non-mixing lines begin to be phased out |
| 1990 |
Purchased Tumble Blender Line from Lightnin Mixers |
| 1990 |
Purchased tumble blender line from Lightnin Mixers; these blenders were redesigned into our current product the Containerized Batch Mixer |
| 1996 |
Sold by Teledyne to the Pennsylvania Growth Fund |
| 1996 |
Sold by Teledyne to the Pennsylvania Growth Fund; became Readco Manufacturing. Product lines decreased to Continuous Processors, LabMasters, and Containerized Batch Mixers |
| 2003 |
Moved to Emigsville, PA |
| 2006 |
Became Readco Kurimoto LLC when bought by previous licensee Kurimoto Ltd. |
| 2007 |
Acquired USDA 3-A Dairy certification |
| 2012 |
Self-Contained Processor Line Added |
| 2019 |
Continuous Hybrid Reactor Line Added |
| 2022 |
New Logo and Website Refresh |
| 2023 |
Relocation to 550 N. State Street |
| 2023-02 |
February 2023 Readco Kurimoto, LLC has relocated to it’s new home! |
