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The Taylor Forge Engineered Systems’ Paola plant has its origin with the Fluor Corporation. In 1930, Fluor began storing pipeline construction equipment on the site. In 1937, Fluor erected the first buildings on the site and began manufacturing in the early 1940’s. Taylor Forge, a Chicago-based company, purchased the plant in 1959 and called this facility the Taylor Forge Engineered Systems Division. In 1967, the Taylor family sold the Taylor Forge Company, including the Taylor Forge Engineered Systems Division, to Gulf & Western Industries. Taylor Forge Engineered Systems, Inc., was purchased from Gulf & Western Industries in September 1984 by R. Gary Kilkenny and Thomas J. Walsh. A transition of leadership was completed in 1998 when Michael Kilkenny acquired majority ownership of the corporation. In the fall of 1990, Taylor Forge acquired Crane Midwest’s Navy nuclear submarine fitting product line. After this acquisition, Taylor Forge became the primary manufacturer in the United States capable of making these components. In the fall of 1992 the Humco facility in Garnett was acquired. TFES entered the heat exchanger
market in 1997.

The Company now consists of three manufacturing facilities located in Kansas: a large heavy steel plate fabrication shop in Paola, a smaller pipe fabricating and lighter plate fabricating shop in Greeley, and the former Humco shop in Garnett, fabricating extruded heater headers, pressure vessels, steam drums and heat exchangers.