Hoffman celebrates 100th anniversary
A tailor’s sore shoulder in 1904
lead to the development of a foot-operated press and the
founding of a company that grew over the years and remains
strong as it celebrates its centennial.
Asa Hoffman was the tailor and his injured
shoulder, prevented him from lifting and using his heavy
pressing iron.
To keep his small Syracuse, NY, tailor
shop going, he devised a finishing press machine controllable
by foot. By chance, a businessman, caught in a rainstorm and in
need of urgent pressing of his wet, wrinkled suit before an
important business meeting, saw this new pressing machine and
was so impressed that he encouraged development and production
of it. The result was that the two men became partners, leading
to the original Hoffman Press and founding of the Hoffman
Pressing Machine Company.
 | ||
The company designs, manufactures and
markets worldwide two distinct product programs:
garment/apparel pressing machinery for apparel manufacturers;
and laundry and drycleaning presses, perc and hydrocarbon
drycleaning machines and shirt machinery for drycleaners,
launderers and industrial and linen services.
The company maintains these product
programs as two divisions and has added specialized fusing
machinery for shirt makers, wrinkle-free processing machinery
for makers of 100 percent cotton wrinkle-free trousers and
shirts, a line of automated machinery for specialized tailored
clothing manufacturing, and a line of electric
boilers/generators for jewelry steam cleaning, auto trim shops,
dental labs, tailor shops and steam baths.
Since clothing manufacturers demand high
productivity and precise quality finishing, a benefit of
the company’s product programs has been the transfer of
technology from the garment manufacturing machinery side to the
design of machinery for the drycleaning/laundry product line.
The company can custom-design head and
buck shapes for very specific applications such as required by
many high end clothing makers.
The company attributes its longevity to
holding to the principles of the original founder — a
commitment to understanding customer needs, designing and
providing machinery to consistently meet and exceed customer
expectations, and to serve customers with integrity.
The Hoffman/New Yorker executive and
accounting offices are located near New York City in
Bloomfield, NJ. The manufacturing facility is located in the
mountain region of northeastern Pennsylvania at Dushore. The
Engineering and Research and Development Departments are
located at the Dushore plant for better interfacing with
manufacturing and customers. Also at the plant is the Spare
Parts Department to allow quick processing of orders, most of
which are shipped the same day they are received.
 |
