Northern Pump Company

In 1929, Northern Pump Company was created from the merger of two Minneapolis, Minnesota, businesses: Northern Fire Apparatus Company and the Pagel Pump Company. In January 1941 Northern Pump left its Central Avenue location for a new plant in Fridley, Minnesota, and in June 1942 created the subsidiary Northern Ordnance Incorporated to fulfill its federal production contracts.

Post-war, Northern Ordnance continued its naval production and in 1964 was purchased by Food Machinery Corporation (FMC), of San Jose, California (the former renamed Northern Ordnance Division). FMC operated the site until 1994, when a series of corporate mergers and sales began. As of 2009, BAE Systems, a defense, security, and aerospace company, owned and operated the Fridley production site.

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