With the humble beginning as a blacksmith shop in 1898, Eureka Machine Shop quickly gained a reputation for their quality, ingenuity and their attention to detail. In 1924 to meet the rising demand for their services, a new modernized steam operated facility was built. In order to continue serving their customers while building the new facility, it was to be built over and around the existing old wood machine shop. Kenneth L Cook started Uhrden, Inc. in August 1952 in a two car garage in Dennison Ohio with a dream of becoming the best material handling equipment manufacturer in the industry with the uppermost levels of quality manufacturing and customer service. Designing and selling shop cranes and hand trucks that were made of “tubing” and “bar” stock and from the Tube and Bar came Tubar ®. In 1955 while attending a Material handling expo in Chicago, Kenneth was asked if he could design a piece of hydraulic equipment for one of the big three auto companies, to dump parts onto a sorting table from a 55 gallon drum. That would turn out to be Tubar Dumper order NO.1, and the T.D. style dumper was born. From this first dumper, Uhrden/Tubar expanded into various types of material handling equipment for the food, chemical, pharmaceutical and industries as well as the U.S. postal and military service. In 2012 Tubar merged with The Eureka Machine Company and the name Uhrden was dropped to create The Tubar/Eureka Industrial Group.