ATLANTA — Continuing one hundred years of company heritage was the focus of Victaulic’s press conference, held Jan. 15 at the AHR Expo in Atlanta.
Victaulic was founded in 1919 with a problem. It was World War I, and the British had trouble bringing fuel and water to the troops on the front line; they needed a faster way to connect pipe. Ernest Tribe, a lieutenant in the British military, realized pipes could be joined quickly and safely with a mechanical coupling. It was the first Victaulic coupling.