About | Ramsey Industries

Since 1944

Founded in 1944, brothers Claude and Rayburn Ramsey
began manufacturing aircraft parts, tools and dies
for Douglas Aircraft Company. More than 70 years later,
Ramsey Industries is one of the leading manufacturers
of service cranes, industrial and commercial winches,
and planetary gear drives, known best through our
three brands – Auto Crane®, Eskridge® and Ramsey Winch®.

1944

Ramsey Brothers Tool & Die founded by Claude and Rayburn Ramsey, launching the Model 101 winch in 1945.

1950

Claude Ramsey becomes sole owner of the company and renames it Ramsey Winch Company, incorporating it in 1959.

1958

Auto Crane founded, launching the mobile service crane industry.

1972

Eskridge founded to provide gear drives and hydraulic brake products for industrial and mobile equipment.

1978

William (Bill) Ramsey succeeds his father as sole owner of Ramsey Winch.

1983

Ramsey Industries – parent company of Ramsey Winch – acquires Auto Crane.

2000

Ramsey Industries is sold to investment management firm Weiss, Peck & Greer.

2008

Ramsey Industries acquires Eskridge Inc.

2009

Ramsey Industries consolidates its corporate offices and manufacturing operations for Auto Crane and Ramsey Winch into its current Tulsa, OK, facility.

2017

Ramsey Industries partners with Norwest Equity Partners and enters a period of strategic investment and growth for the company.

2019

Ramsey Industries invests in personnel and infrastructure to expand capacity and support continued growth.

2023

Kerry Baskins hired as company President and CEO, initiating the company’s six pillars of operational excellence.

2024

Ramsey Industries launches EPICOR, consolidating the organization’s ERP and CRM systems to seamlessly manage customer relationships and order processes.

2024

Reorganizes manufacturing processes and invests in company infrastructure to increase capacity for select products by ~65%-85%; significantly invests in new and current personnel to successfully lead new initiatives.

Today

Ramsey Industries continues to be a leading U.S. provider of lift, rotation, and winch products and is poised for significant growth.

PHILANTHROPY

Caring is one of the core values we celebrate at Ramsey Industries – caring about each other, the markets we serve, the partners and customers we do business with and our community. One of the ways we express this value is by partnering with organizations like the Tulsa Area United Way to impact the members of our community.

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