industry plumbing founded 1901 1901 1 founder albert brown 2 headquarters des plaines united states of america 1 key people andreas nowak president 1 revenue us 70 million 2001 3 parent geberit website www.chicagofaucet.com the chicago faucet company founded on the near west side of chicago illinois has been producing faucets and other plumbing fixtures since 1901 . 4 the company founder albert c. brown invented the quaturn cartridge in 1913 that worked with the flow of water to make it both easy to open and close the spigots and forestalled leak development . the great depression hit the company hard because of a decline in new construction . despite the depression the company persevered by participating in the chicago world s fair of 1933 and briefly converted to the production of nuts bolts screws and parachute hooks during world war ii . 5 in 2002 the swiss geberit ag acquired chicago faucet . currently the chicago faucet company has its headquarters in des plaines illinois and employs over 500 people in des plaines milwaukee elyria ohio michigan city indiana and huntsville alabama . 6 chicago faucet has sales in the neighborhood of 70 million a year . 7 notes edit a b c company description chicago faucet . businessweek.com . businessweek . retrieved 29 september 2012 . the chicago faucet company . hoovers.com . retrieved 29 september 2012 . riley key 10 july 2002 . chicago faucet sells for 33m . chicagobusiness.com . crain s chicago business . retrieved 29 september 2012 . history of chicago faucets how chicago faucets survived the great depression company history . the chicago faucet company . 2007 . archived from the original on 2007 05 13 . retrieved 2007 06 08 . geberit buys chicago faucet . contractormag.com . 2005 . retrieved 2007 06 08 . this chicago related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title chicago faucet & oldid 697976863 categories plumbingcompanies based in cook county illinoisdes plaines illinoismanufacturing companies established in 19011901 establishments in illinoischicago stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 january 2016 at 05 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view