{{Short description|American plumbing fixtures company}} {{Infobox company | name = The Chicago Faucet Company | logo = Logo of Chicago Faucets.svg | type = Subsidiary | traded_as = | genre = <!-- Only used with media and publishing companies --> | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | founded = {{Start date and age|1901}}<ref name="A1">{{cite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=2572278 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118221239/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=2572278 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 18, 2013 |title=Company Description: Chicago Faucet |work=businessweek.com |publisher=BusinessWeek |accessdate=29 September 2012}}</ref> | founder = Albert Brown<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoovers.com/company/The_Chicago_Faucet_Company/ccsyci-1.html |title=The Chicago Faucet Company |publisher=Hoovers.com |accessdate=29 September 2012}}</ref> | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | hq_location_city = Des Plaines, Illinois | hq_location_country = United States<ref name="A1"/> | num_locations = | area_served = United States and Canada | key_people = Fabian Huber<br /><small>(President)</small><ref name="A1"/> | industry = Plumbing | products = | services = | revenue = US$270 million <small>(2017)</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20020710/NEWS01/20005931/chicago-faucet-sells-for-33m |title=Chicago Faucet sells for $33M |author=Riley, Key |work=chicagobusiness.com |publisher=Crain's Chicago Business |date=10 July 2002 |accessdate=29 September 2012}}</ref> | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = Geberit | divisions = | subsidiaries = | website = [http://www.chicagofaucets.com chicagofaucets.com] | footnotes = | intl = }}
The '''Chicago Faucet Company''', often shortened to '''Chicago Faucets''',<ref name=":0" /> founded on the near-west side of Chicago, Illinois, United States, has been producing faucets and other plumbing fixtures since 1901.<ref name="faucetdepot">{{Cite web |url=http://www.faucetdepot.com/history/Chicago%20Faucets-39.asp |title=History of Chicago Faucets |access-date=2011-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916032933/http://www.faucetdepot.com/history/Chicago%20Faucets-39.asp |archive-date=2011-09-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The company founder, Albert C. Brown, invented the Quaturn Cartridge in 1913 that worked with the flow of water to make it both easy to open and close the spigots and forestalled leak development.
The Great Depression hit the company hard because of a decline in new construction. The company persevered by participating in the Chicago World's Fair of 1933 and briefly converted to the production of nuts, bolts, screws, and parachute hooks during World War II.<ref name="apartmentTherapy">[http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/history/how-chicago-faucets-grew-and-survived-the-great-depression-110590 How Chicago Faucets survived the Great Depression]</ref>
In 2002 the Swiss company Geberit AG acquired Chicago Faucet.
Currently the Chicago Faucet Company has its headquarters in Des Plaines, Illinois, and employs over 200 people in Des Plaines, Milwaukee, Elyria, Ohio, and Michigan City, Indiana.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagofaucets.com/history.php |accessdate=2007-06-08 |publisher=The Chicago Faucet Company |year=2007 |title=Company History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513130444/http://www.chicagofaucets.com/history.php |archive-date=2007-05-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Chicago Faucet has sales in the neighborhood of $270 million a year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arcat.com/arcatcos/cos31/arc31418.html |accessdate=2007-06-08|publisher=contractormag.com|year=2005|title=Geberit buys Chicago Faucet}}</ref>
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Category:Plumbing organizations Category:Companies based in Cook County, Illinois Category:Des Plaines, Illinois Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1901 Category:1901 establishments in Illinois
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