From Electrical Apparatus Magazine - February 2011

Pittsburgh Shop Observes 80th Anniversary

   Globe Electric Co., Inc. of Pittsburgh, an electric motor repair shop and distributor of motors and drives, observed its eightieth year in business January 23rd.

   Company founder Ben Gottschalk filed for the charter name Globe Electric Repair Co. in 1931. He built the company's present day 15,000-square-foot facility in 1947 at a time when many construction items were still in short supply, so he used pre-cast and cast-in-place concrete.

   "The entire facility is concrete, including the columns, beams and roof deck," notes William Connor, son-in-law of the founder and the company's current president. " All except the crane runways, which were added a year later when steel became more available."

   Globe Electric serves western Pennsylvania's steel mills, cement and metal fabricators, manufacturers, city and county municipalities, and machine tool manufacturers, among other customers.

   "The pride that we feel is shared by all of our employees and their families," says Connor, "for without them, this birthday anniversary would never have occurred."