The Derrick Commitment With the development of the first high speed vibrating screen machine by founder H William Derrick Jr in 1951 the primary commitment of the Derrick Corporation has been to design and manufacture rugged dependable high quality equipment to serve the process industries By approaching each individual application as a new challenge to our design engineering and fabrication capabilities Derrick continues to provide customers with stateoftheart equipment to meet their everchanging needs Quality innovation and reliability are our pledge today and for the future D e r r i C k H i s T o r y The his T ory of Derrick Privately owned Derrick Corporation was founded in 1951 by H William Derrick Jr affectionately known as The Chief throughout his business career In 1947 he joined forces with his fatherinlaw William L Wettlaufer an inventor who held a series of patents to manufacture high frequency therapeutic vibrators and slow speed vibrating screen machines Together they developed a high speed vibrator to shake testing sieves In order to develop and market this idea Bill Derrick went out on his own and in 1951 he teamed up with Messinger Bearing Co to develop the first four bearing high speed screen vibrator It was in this same year that Derrick Manufacturing Company was formed as a proprietorship In 1952 Dick Vale one of Bills cousins joined the company followed shortly afterwards by his brother Bob Derrick in 1954 In 1955 the company relocated to 590 Duke Road where today this original space is still a part of Derricks 334000 ft 2 31030 m 2 facility During the first half of its existence Derrick Manufacturing focused on applications in the mining industrial and chemical industries and built an impressive reputation for solving a wide variety of the most difficult fine screening and separation problems Another key development occurred in the mid80s Derrick sought out potential partners to assist in the development of high open area polyurethane screen surfaces No partner was found as everyone thought Derricks expectations were impossible Derrick developed this product on its own and today Derricks high open area long life polyurethane screen surfaces are unique in the world With open area and capacity rivaling woven wire Derrick urethane panels outlast woven wire by factors of 10 to 20 With 3 generations of Derricks actively involved in the business it is committed to the guiding principles and philosophy that have led to its success Derrick is committed to providing customers with stateoftheart equipment to meet their everchanging needs High quality innovation and reliability are Derricks pledge today and for the future A firm commitment to research and development enables Derrick to maintain its position as a leading innovator Derrick also stands behind its commitment to a vertically integrated inhouse production system 2