BUSHTON MANUFACTURING

While Nilus Orth was in graduate school studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas in the late 1980's, Loren Orth had his brother Nilus Orth begin conducting research on using agricultural waste to make various products. They continued this into the 1990s, even after Nilus graduated and became an assistant professor at Lamar University in Texas. In 1995 Nilus left Lamar to return home and the brothers formed Wheat Straw Products as a research company. A few years later they began Bushton Manufacturing as a manufacturing company for the products that Wheat Straw Products had developed and purchased... Here at Bushton Manufacturing, we take pride in long-lasting, well-built tools like the Hawk line. Hawk Woodworking Tools started as Pruitt in 1929 in the town of Pleasant Hill, MO. RB Industries (RBI) bought Pruitt in 1972 and moved the company to Harrisonville, MO. In 2007, RBI sold out to an investment group who called the company Hawk Woodworking Industries, LLC and..

Also known as: Bushton Manufacturing, LLC

Primary location: Bushton United States