| 1956 |
Ajax Composite Die Company, specializing in dies
and crane hooks, splits off from Ajax Steel and Forge,
moving operations to Detroit. |
| 1969 |
Ajax management decides that the future of the
company is in seamless rolled rings. With a new Wagner
ring mill, and a new building in Wayne, Michigan,
Ajax Rolled Ring is born. |
| 1980 |
Edgewater Steel, a competitor to Ajax, builds a
new ring rolling facility in York, South Carolina. |
| 1986 |
Ajax Rolled Ring purchases the Edgewater plant
in York, South Carolina. |
| 1990 |
Ovako Steel, under SKF ownership, buys both operations
in Michigan and South Carolina and subsequently moves
the headquarters to York, South Carolina. Ajax becomes
a sister company to Ovako mills in Sweden and France.
For the next twelve years, the company is known as
Ovako Ajax. |
| 1996 |
Ovako sells the Michigan plant. |
| 2002 |
Ovako sells the South Carolina plant to eXpert
Forge & Machine. The company does business as
AJAX Rolled Ring & Machine. |
| 2005 |
Ajax is purchased by a private equity firm, Dogwood
Equity, and continues to do business as AJAX Rolled
Ring & Machine. |
| 2006 |
CEO Simon Ormerod joins AJAX
Rolled Ring & Machine in March.
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