Osborn Celebrates 125 Years

The manufacturer of metal finishing, honing and surface polishing tools celebrates its growth from being a humble maker of horse and butcher block brushes and street cleaning brooms to a global brand that serves over 10,000 products to customers in more than 120 countries.

Osborn International (Brooklyn Heights, OH), a leading supplier of surface treatment solutions and high-quality finishing tools, celebrates its 125^th anniversary.

The company, founded by John J. Osborn in 1887, originally made horse and butcher block brushes as well as street cleaning brooms. Now, 125 years later, his namesake company offers more than 10,000 standard finishing products and over 100,000 customized solutions to customers in more than 120 countries.

Product lines include a variety of metal finishing products, welding solutions, maintenance tools and its popular Load Runners^® rollers. The company serves customers in a variety of markets including metals processing, manufacturing, pipeline and energy, welding, construction and maintenance, as well as many others.

“We’re extremely proud of our 125-year history of providing our customers worldwide with superior products that meet their finishing needs,” said Luis Hereza, the vice president of marketing at Osborn. “Under our new brand identity that was introduced earlier this year, we’re a unified team that focuses on a history of quality, innovation, excellence and service.”

In celebration of its 125^th anniversary, the company is publishing its history in a coffee table book that captures a valuable piece of brush making history, and takes the reader from the origins of the organization at its beginning to present day.

Throughout its growth the company, A unit of Jason Inc. (Milwaukee, WI), maintained its headquarters in Cleveland while adding locations in 15 countries to better serve its diverse group of customers of surface treatment solutions and high-quality finishing tools for hundreds of industrial and commercial applications, such as metal finishing, honing and surface polishing. www.Osborn.com