All-Clad
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| Type | Private, limited liability company |
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| Industry | Consumer Goods |
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founder(s) | John Ulam |
| Headquarters | Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Products | cookware, ovenware, kitchen tools, kitchen accessories |
| Parent | Groupe SEB |
| Website | all-clad.com |
All-Clad Metalcrafters is a manufacturer of high-performance bonded cookware with headquarters in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The company markets its cookware to department and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, Germany, UK and Australia along with premium All-Clad bonded ovenware, kitchen tools, and kitchen accessories.
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[edit] History
All-Clad began as Composite Metal Products, Inc., founded in 1960 by metallurgist John Ulam. He partnered with aluminum producer Alcoa in 1967 to create Clad Metals, Inc., and began to adopt the process of cladding dissimilar metals to create cookware products. All-Clad Metalcrafters was established in 1971 to sell this cookware.[1] Bloomingdale's picked up the brand two years later for its upscale housewares department. In 1988, the company was purchased by Pittsburgh Annealing Box Co.,[2] and was later bought by Groupe SEB in 2004.[1]
[edit] Cookware-Related US Patents
All-Clad has been issued several patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
The firm purchases its metals only from US suppliers[citation needed], bonds them at its rolling mill in Pennsylvania, and then forms them at the into cooking vessels. In recent years, All-Clad has begun outsourcing some of its manufacturing to factories in China; these include products where the bonding of metals is not required (for example kitchen tools and accessories), and regular non-bonded components, or those for which manufacturing constraints exist at the Canonsburg plant (for example, electrical appliances).
[edit] Cookware
[edit] Handles
All-Clad cookware uses a stainless steel handle riveted to the body of the cookware with stainless steel rivets.[citation needed]
[edit] Interior finishes
The cooking surface of their cookware is made from type 304 stainless steel. The primary benefit of stainless steel over other metals is its non-reactive nature which imparts no taste to the food. Several pieces feature a nonstick finish coated on top of the 18/10 stainless steel.[20]
All stainless steel used by the company is certified to meet ISO 9000 and ASTM A240 standards for type 304 stainless steel intended for use with food. [20] The cookware is available in stainless steel, or aluminum exterior metals, and various finishes.
[edit] Emerilware
In 2000, All-Clad partnered with television chef and personality Emeril Lagasse to develop a line of cookware named "Emerilware". By the end of 2000, Emerilware had exceeded all of All-Clad's publicity and sales projections and was contributing to one half of the company's 40% growth. By 2005, the Emerilware Stainless 10-piece set had become the single best selling cookware set in America.[citation needed] Emerilware extended its product line to other specialty items such as cast iron cookware.
Each year in June and December, All-Clad Metalcrafters holds a seconds sale near its headquarters in Canonsburg. [21]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Our History". http://www.all-clad.com/about-all-clad/Our-History/. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ Coates, Claudia (November 18, 1998). "TV, Good Name Light a Fire Under All-Clad Pans". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/18/business/fi-44043. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ 3350772, Nov. 07, 1967, "Methods of cladding stainless steel to aluminum", John B. Ulam & William C. Camp.
- ^ 3363307 Jan. 16, 1968 "Method of making electrically heated cooking vessels" John B. Ulam
- ^ 3445630 May 20, 1969 "Composite cooking vessels"
- ^ 3495735 Feb. 17, 1970 "Non-stick utensils"
- ^ 3909591 Sept. 30, 1975 "Cooking vessel"
- ^ 3919763Nov. 18, 1975 "Method of making a cooking vessel"
- ^ 3952938 April 27, 1976 "Method of making multiple member composite metal products"
- ^ 4103076 July 25, 1978 "Clad metal product of Cu, Al and stainless steel"
- ^ 4167606 Sept. 11, 1979 "Multiple member clad metal products"
- ^ 4246045 Jan. 20, 1981 "Multiple member clad metal products and methods of making the same"
- ^ 4347722 Sept. 07, 1982 "Method of making a cooking vessel which has surface ornamentation"
- ^ 4646935 March 3, 1987 "Induction cooking utensils"
- ^ 6109504 Aug. 29, 2000 "Copper core cooking griddle and method of making same"
- ^ 6267830 July 31, 2001 "Method for making a copper core five-ply composite for cookware"
- ^ 6360423 March 26, 2002 "Stick resistant coating for cookware"
- ^ 6427904 August 6, 2002 "Bonding of dissimilar metals"
- ^ 6544669 April 8, 2003 "Cryogenic treatment of cookware and bakeware"
- ^ a b "All-Clad Frequently Asked Question #15". http://www.all-clad.com/consumer-service/frequently-asked-questions/#faq15/. http://www.all-clad.com/. Retrieved september 6, 2009.
- ^ "Annual cookware seconds sale draws thousands". http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09155/974776-54.stm. http://www.post-gazette.com/.
