Feature
September 2014, Vol. 241, No. 9
50 Years In The Family: CECO Celebrates A Half-Century Of Success
It was 1964, and Ernest Hotze, a mechanical engineer who put himself through Oklahoma University working in oilfields, was trying to sell Tennessee Gas Pipeline some large compressors. Hotze worked for Clark Brothers, one of four big compressor manufacturers, and the business was very different from its modern incarnation.