Draft:Nelmor Company

The Nelmor Company was an American producer of industrial shredders, granulators, and other heavy equipment.

History
Founded in 1953 in Millville, Massachusetts by World War 2 veteran Nelson H. Morin, Nelmor originally was a job shop style business which produced iron fabrications and heavy equipment such as machine bases and missile pallets for military applications. In the 1960s Nelmor began designing and producing granulators due to their welding, machining and fabrication abilities. Nelmor was able to capitalize on the growing use of plastics in a variety of industries which often use granulation as a means of reusing the material in an extrusion or injection moulding system. The company was purchased in 1970 by the Entwistle company and gradually shifted from fabrication of custom made, heavy equipment to size reduction equipment throughout the 1970s. They produced a number of pressure vessels for nuclear applications before making the decision to focus on size reduction equipment following an acquisition by the AEC company in 1978. AEC itself was acquired by Harbour Group Industries in the 1990s The company continued to produce shredding machines with success before eventually being phased out in favor of AEC's product line and fellow subsidiary AEC Cumberland. The remaining employees were transferred or laid off.