Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc. is comprised of five companies - "old" Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc. (whose principal brand name was and is Pride of the Farm), Conrad-American, Inc., Eaton, Brower and Marlor.

Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc. was started in 1920 by Martin Lorenzen in Marshalltown, Iowa. He moved his small factory to Waterloo, IA in 1923. His son started a second company in Council Bluffs in 1963. He named the company after his father, "Marlor".

Conrad-American, Inc. was started in 1968 in Houghton, IA by Leonard Conrad. Conrad was producer and marketer of hybrid corn. He began selling grain bins to his seed customers in the 1960's and then began manufacturing his own bins in 1968.

Brower Manufacturing was founded in Quincy, Illinois in 1922 by William J. Brower. The company originated as a mail order house distributor. Brower started manufacturing in the 1930's.

Eaton was established by Albert Nathaniel Eaton of Omaha, Nebraska in 1903. Eaton's first product was a stock tank patented in 1909. He expanded into grain bins, welded tanks, packaging and washing equipment and energy free waterers.

The five companies were merged into "new" Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc. in 1986. Operations were consolidated in Houghton, IA. The Brower brand name was added to all Marlor products. The other brand names have been maintained. The company is privately owned.

Hawkeye Steel manufactures equipment for four markets:

• Grain and oilseed storage (corrugated steel structures and accessories)
• Livestock production (swine, cattle, sheep, horse and wildlife)
• Poultry production (broilers, game birds and small flocks)
• Poultry meat processing (small and medium-sized plants)

The company's products are sold in all 50 states and in 25 countries each year.

Nine decades of helping the world's food producers grow.