Milwaukee Crane & Equipment Co

Milwaukee Crane was founded in 1945 by Italian immigrant Gabriel Pascuzzi as Milwaukee Machinery in Portland, Oregon USA. The company was located at 4000 SW Macadam Avenue. The company sold and repaired electric motors, pumps, transformers and with its machine and welding shop was able to repair all kinds of industrial equipment. In the early 1950s the son of the founder, Arthur Pascuzzi, saw the need for adding to the products sold by his fathers business. Manufacturing was a more appealing prospect than repairing old equipment. Milwaukee Machinery always had a good reputation for quality work, and the manufacture of overhead bridge cranes looked like a good opportunity. Building the best became our motto, and we did. By the late 1960s the crane manufacturing part of the company had outgrown the building on Macadam. In 1970, the crane division relocated to a large facility in the Portland suburb of Tigard. The name of the company was changed to Milwaukee Crane to more identify wi...