Wall Colmonoy marks 85th year in business

Wall Colmonoy, a leading global materials engineering group, is celebrating 85 years of business with celebrations at each of its six locations. The company employs 600 people across the U.S. and at its European headquarters in the U.K.

In 1937, metallurgists Norman Cole and Walter Edmonds created a new nickel-based alloy containing chromium boride for oil and gas downhole drilling. The alloy became known as Colmonoy, an anagram of Cole and Edmonds’ surnames. The following year, entrepreneur Albert F. Wall acquired the company and renamed it Wall Colmonoy Corp.

The company remains under the ownership and leadership of its founding family, now in its fourth generation.