58 | The Fisher Story
1980s
1980 Centennial celebration!
A black-tie event is held at the
Martha Ellen Tye Playhouse in
Marshalltown for the
management team, at which
opera singer Beverly Sills hosts
members of the New York City Opera.
Around 9,700 Fisher retirees, employees and
family members picnic and tour the five facilities
in Marshalltown.
PROVOX distributed control system and Type 8550
rotary valve introduced.
Dave Brown
Nearly 900 employees, their families and community
visitors tour the McKinney, Texas, plant.
Coraopolis plant
celebrates the
centennial with
an open house
and picnic.
Sherman plant
holds its first
open house for
employees and
their families.
Fisher Valves Are Where?
Centennial issue of the Governor
Employees number 11,000 worldwide
(3,200 in Marshalltown).
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, butterfly manufacturing
plant closes and production moves to Marshalltown,
Iowa and Sherman, Texas
Some regulator products transfer from
Marshalltown, Iowa, to McKinney, Texas.
Sales meeting utilizes the theme “We’ve Only Just
Begun.” (Innisbrook in Tarpon Springs, Florida)
Woodstock
plant celebrates
its own 25th
anniversary
along with the
centennial
celebration.
1897 - A Type 1 was installed in
the Marshalltown Water Works.
1936 - Level controllers and
diaphragm motor valves sent to
a petroleum refinery in Iraq.
1907 - Fisher products were
being applied worldwide,
including applications on
German navy battleships and in
underground electric railways
in London.
1939 - Fisher diaphragm motor
valves were installed in the
steam and oil lines of the Union
Pacific Railroad’s fleet of
steamliners (locomotives).
1935 - 17 Type 57s provide
steam control in a new high
school’s kitchen in Louisville,
Kentucky.
1941 - Pump governors and
diaphragm control valves serve a
refinery in Chungking, China,
that was completely
underground (for protection
from enemy bombers).
1943 - Fisher sent liquid level
controllers and diaphragm
motor valves to repair Russian
industrial areas devastated by
German bombs.
1962 - Fisher-Marshalltown
produced 297 identical
Type 1008-A valves for a
chemical plant in Italy and its
mercury heat exchanger system.