Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Atlas Powder Company was an American explosives and chemicals company. It was one of the two companies that emerged out of a court-ordered breakup of the explosives monopoly of Du Pont Powder Company, [1] the explosives and gunpowder company founded by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
Atlas Copco (Copco from Compagnie Pneumatique Commerciale) is a Swedish multinational industrial company that was founded in 1873. [7] It manufactures industrial tools and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group is a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Nacka , Sweden .
Atlas World Group's flagship company, Atlas Van Lines, is an agent-owned company and similar in form to a cooperative. It has approximately 500 agents in more than 140 countries. Among these agents, 75 own shares in Atlas World Group. Atlas Van Lines is the second-largest interstate motor carrier in the United States. [citation needed]
Atlas Machine and Supply, Inc., founded in 1907, [1] is one of the largest heavy-capacity industrial machinery engineering, manufacturing and remanufacturing centers in the United States. The company also performs field machining repairs onsite for industries located throughout the United States and around the world.
In 1929, Atlas was a $12,550,000 investment trust. [1] The company was able to shrewdly weather the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and continue to grow through the 1930s and 1940s. The corporation was founded by Floyd Odlum and his brother-in-law Boyd Hatch.
Atlas Entertainment, LLC is an American film financing and production company, started by Charles Roven, Bob Cavallo and Dawn Steel in 1994. [1] Its logo features the Greek Titan Atlas , which was the basis for the company's name.
The Atlas GmbH (formerly 2010–16 Atlas Maschinen GmbH) is a medium-sized construction machinery manufacturer based in Ganderkesee.The company mainly manufactures wheeled excavators, two-way excavators and crawler excavators in various weight and performance categories, as well as loading cranes and medium-sized wheel loaders.
Changes in technology and automation mean that in the 21st century, 150-200 workers can do the work that used to take thousands of employees in the plants. The company's legacy is remembered and interpreted in the Atlas Cement Memorial Museum, which was founded in 1997 by Edward Pany, a former employee at the company and a history teacher. [1]