UPG History
What is the UPG Tagline?
Stronger Together
Which company within the UPG family ONLY processes steel?
Chicago Steel
Mapes & Sprowl provides services within what steel markets? (Name at least one)
- Electrical Steel
- Enameling Steel
- Specialty Steel
Mapes & Sprowl is ISO Certified
TRUE
What does Agion Antimicrobial Treated Steel kill? (Name at least one answer)
- Bacteria
- Molds
- Fungi
UPG is the parent company to how many brands?
9 companies
Which sister company owns a steel pickling line?
Maksteel
When did Mapes & Sprowl join the UPG family?
2015
Mapes & Sprowl has been established for more than 100 years
TRUE, the company was founded in the early 1920s.
Name at least one appliance that uses enameling steel.
Ovens, grills, etc.
Who founded UPG?
Chris Hutter and Paul Douglass
Name the two UPG companies that provide and process structural steel.
Contractors Steel and Borrmann Metal Center
What specialty steel does Mapes & Sprowl offer?
Agion Antimicrobial
Mapes & Sprowl is the only supplier of electrical steel in the UPG Family
FALSE, Lamination Specialties is also an electrical steel supplier
What is the name of the longest slitter at Mapes & Sprowl?
Iris
What does UPG stand for?
Union Partners Group
What sister company was founded in 1968 (hint, they are a flat roll supplier)
Lexington Steel
What year was Agion Antimicrobial Treated Steel introduced to the Mapes & Sprowl product portfolio?
2004
Mapes & Sprowl moved to the current location in Elk Grove in the 1980s
TRUE
What is the term for the defect common with enameling steel?
_____________ consist of flaking on the enamel coating in the form of semicircles held between vertical walls on one side and a sloping radial surface with a curvilinear profile on the other, producing a shape resembling the scale of a fish.
Fish scale / scaling
What year was UPG founded?
2014
What was the previous company name of: "National Metalwares Furniture?"
Inn Crowd
What growing market pushed Mapes & Sprowl to move to Chicago in 1927?
The radio market. (Electrical steel was heavily used in this market).
Mapes & Sprowl purchased another company in 2007
TRUE. Cortran, Inc.
What is the thinnest gage Mapes & Sprowl can slit?
0.004 inches