1920s
1928 Bruce W. Rogers begins traveling throughout Northeastern Ohio as a sales agent.
1929 Bruce establishes the B.W. Rogers Company in Akron, Ohio.
1930s
B.W. Rogers grows steadily, building a product line portfolio to service Akron's burgeoning rubber machinery builders and tire industry.
1940s
1947 B.W. Rogers becomes The Parker Appliance Company's very first product distributor.
1950s
1950 Growth leads to the opening of an office in Cleveland, Ohio to better serve the market.
1960s
1960 B.W. Rogers continues to expand by opening an office in Columbus, Ohio.
1965 Fluid Power Products founded by Bill Thompson.
1969 With Akron and Columbus firmly established, an office in Cincinnati is opened to serve southern Ohio customers.
1970s
1973 B.W. Rogers opens Dayton office.
1976 HydraAir, Inc. is founded by William C. Myrvold and William A. Newton.
1978 Exonic Systems is founded by Jay Jones and Robert Burig.
1980s
1983 B.W. Rogers develops Tribute software systems to serve customers more effectively. Today, it is the leading industry software throughout North America, keeping us at the forefront in data interchange, performance and automated warehousing.
1990s
1992 Youngstown office opens.
1996 B.W. Rogers establishes partnership with HydraAir in Indianapolis.
1998 B.W. Rogers establishes a partnership with Kentucky Pneumatics in Louisville.
2000s
2001 B.W. Rogers establishes a partnership with Exonic Systems, a leader in the distribution and integration of automation products, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2006 B.W. Rogers purchases Fluid Power Products.
2007 B. W. Rogers purchases Machine Drive.
NOW
B.W. Rogers and its affiliated companies are one of the premier suppliers to a variety of industries including machinery builders, plastic, automotive, steel, aerospace and others throughout the central United States.
