Description

The Chamber Wellness Council Company Tours provide an excellent opportunity for members of The Chamber of Manitowoc County to meet in an informal setting to share information and discuss challenges with their wellness and health programs, processes, and procedures.

J. Peter Eastman, Founder of Eastman Manufacturing Company, who came to Manitowoc from Eau Claire in 1905, was active in the utility field before forming his own company in 1914.  The Eastman company became the largest enterprise in the world making an exclusive line of hose couplings.  Occupying quarters in the Platt building making couplings for gas tubing.  In 1920 the business was incorporated under the name of the Eastman Manufacturing company, headed by Mr. Eastman.  Later the company moved to its present quarters on North 24th Street.  Mr. Eastman saw the business expand with the output sent throughout the United States and also enjoying a large export trade.  Mr. Eastman was the inventor of various patents which are in use in the plant yet today.  After several acquisitions, the company was eventually purchased by Parker Hannifin Corporation in 2001 and is now the flagship of the Hose Products Division.