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Tuthill has a long history of manufacturing – over 130 years! Our business began as we made bricks that became Chicago’s foundation. Innovation eventually drove us to begin manufacturing rotating equipment that would serve other foundations – human life. This has been the core of our existence and what drives Tuthill to diversify and better serve the needs of the world. The extensive list of technology manufactured over our history has powered industries including aerospace & defense, commercial aviation, agriculture, food & beverage, chemical processing, pharmaceutical, oil & gas, construction, medical, and mining.

Here is how it started. Our journey began in 1892 when James B. Tuthill started a business to manufacture and sell common brick to Chicago construction companies who were fueling the city's rapid expansion. While searching for an efficient way to lift clay from the bottom of the quarry and deliver it to the kilns where it would become brick, Tuthill came upon its first successful innovation in the pump industry. The product was a small internal gear pump that injected oil directly into the burner of a truck-mounted boiler. This pump eventually became the foundation of Tuthill Pump Company, a separate entity created in 1927.


In 1961 Tuthill purchased Ossian Engineering Company and the business was later known as Tuthill Transfer Systems. In 1977 Tuthill Pump Company reorganized to reflect its more diverse business and became Tuthill Corporation. Having entered the pneumatic blower business in 1988 with the acquisition of M-D Pneumatics, Tuthill Vacuum & Blower Systems was formed in 1996 by combining M-D with the newly acquired Kinney Vacuum Company.


In 2020 Tuthill embarked on the next chapter of our journey, transforming the company to thrive in high tech applications and products that help protect our country. We re-focused our portfolio for the future, divesting the legacy pumps and blower technology divisions. Today, we are moving forward with our journey in making real things that really make a difference with the purchase of EaglePicher Technologies.