The Tulsa World highlighted 94 Products You May Not Know are Made in the Tulsa Area on Tuesday. 10 Broken Arrow Companies made the list.
“Manufacturing is crucial to the Tulsa-area economy, with hundreds of businesses that make all kinds of products, from aerospace parts to energy equipment, from giant precast concrete walls to tiny glass lenses and from beer bottles to actual beer.
A full list would include thousands of items. We’ve narrowed it down to some of the most common products and well-known brands.”
Broken Arrow is home to over 300 manufacturers making a wide variety of products across many industry sectors.
To see the 94 products made in the Tulsa Area, read the full story on the Tulsa World.
Arrowhead Precast in Broken Arrow manufactured 200 concrete arched panels that support the land bridges over Riverside Drive at A Gathering Place for Tulsa. Arrowhead also manufactures sound and barrier wall systems along highways, as well as retaining walls, risers, hollow-core floors and double-T beams.
BakerHughes has a number of facilities in the Tulsa area and built a new Research and Technology Center for submersible pumps at its Centrilift plant in Claremore.
Cheryl Hill, owner and CEO of Hill Manufacturing, was looking to diversify from the energy and aircraft industries, and the company began to make the Marshall Tree Saw in 2001.
Broken Arrow-based Oseco makes pressure-relief devices, such as rupture discs, which release the excess pressure in pipes and vessels that can lead to explosions. They are used in a variety of industries, including large chemical plants and refineries.
Founded in 1988, Paragon Films Inc. in Broken Arrow makes stretch film used for tightly wrapping pallets of products that are delivered to retailers. The wrap keeps dust off the products and prevents them from slipping.
Tactical Electronics of Broken Arrow makes camera systems and bomb disposal equipment for law enforcement and military use, and has developed a drone that can be used commercially.
Zeeco, with a plant in Broken Arrow, designs, engineers and manufactures next-generation combustion equipment and advanced environmental systems. The company marked its 40th anniversary earlier this year.
