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 Wolverine Tube has been in business for over 90 years. We have consistently earned a leadership position it the non-ferrous tubular product markets; for first automotive and then transformed itself into a global leader serving the HVAC market.
The Wolverine Tube Company begins manufacturing small, seamless copper and brass tubing in a 6,600 square foot mill in Detroit, Michigan for the automobile industry.
Wolverine invents the first high performance heat transfer tube which revolutionized the HVAC and commercial chiller industry.
The Wolverine Tube Company is sold to Calumet and Helca Consolidated Copper Company. World War II significantly increases the demand for copper products; therefore, Wolverine focuses all manufacturing efforts on war-related work.
A new plant is built in Decatur, Alabama in response to the rapidly growing industry in the south and southeast, as well as the rest of the country. It becomes world’s most modern tube mill.
A third plant is opened in Dearborn Heights, Michigan to produce zirconium and titanium tubing for the nuclear power industry.
Universal Products purchases Calumet and Helca, Inc., allowing Wolverine Tube to become part of a larger, more dynamic enterprise.
Wolverine Holding Company; Wolverine Tube, Inc., and Wolverine Tube (Canada) Inc. are formed when Morgan Stanley, Drake/Goodwin and Management acquired the assets of Wolverine from the Henley Group.
Wolverine Tube (Canada) Inc. acquires assets from Noranda Metal, Inc. in Fergus, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec, and New Westminster, British Columbia.
Genstar Capital acquires the stock of Wolverine Holding Company in a leverage transaction.
Genstar conducts an IPO of Wolverine Tube.
Wolverine Tube Inc. acquires Tube Forming, Inc. (TFI) located in Carrollton, Texas.
Wolverine Tube Inc. acquires Wolverine Joining Technologies (WTJ) in Warwick, Rhode Island and Wolverine Tube Europe (WTE) in the Netherlands.
Investment by The Alpine Group and Plainfield Special Situations Master Fund Limited
Wolverine is poised once again to transform its market focus for profitable growth, as the company charts a "New Path Forward", leveraging its core heat transfer technology to address a number of select new markets ready to grow in a more energy efficient and environmentally conscious world.
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