LYDON OVEN COMPANY HISTORY
At Lydon, Core Values Of History And Tradition Guide Every Innovation
Timothy Lydon began designing and building ovens in a small Jersey City, New Jersey plant in 1929 and named his company Lydon Brothers after the old family forge in Galway, Ireland. In 1931, another talented engineer joined the firm by the name of Patrick Lydon. The Lydon Brothers' practical approach to affordable quality custom equipment gained the attention of many leading American industrial producers and scientific laboratories. Lydon Brothers' early innovative successes included the development of the Lydon Steam Box, a unique heat-and-humidity controlled chamber for twist setting of natural and man-made textile fibers. New oven designs were developed for high-temperature forced-convection annealing of glassware used in chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories.
In 1946, Lydon Brothers moved to larger facilities in Hackensack, New Jersey to better serve its growing list of customers. John P. McBride and Timothy Lydon developed the first special ovens to process the duPont innovation in polytetrafluoroethylene, known as Teflon®. The innovations continued with ovens for aging of aluminum containers and the drying of pharmaceutical powders. Lydon Brothers was purchased by its employees in 1968. John P. McBride added oven system designs for curing of printed circuit boards, depyrogenating sterile drug dosage components, dehumidifying plastic resins, heat treating of cathode ray tubes, and many other control system and materials handling innovations. Today, Lydon upholds the traditions of practical innovation in design; safe, reliable, cost-efficient, high-quality industrial and scientific equipment.
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