Ellicott International

Since its establishment in 1885, Baltimore’s Ellicott International has been producing dredge machinery.  As a matter of fact, the company manufactured all the cutter dredges used in the building of the Panama Canal.  The first was delivered in 1907.

In the years that followed, Ellicott International supplied dredges to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and built the most powerful dredge in the world for the St. Lawrence Seaway.  It devised new ways to make dredges more maneuverable for narrow waterways and made mega-dredges for use in iron ore mines.

Ellicott International holds many patents for its dredge machinery and has sold the vehicles to numerous countries around the world including Canada, South Korea, Egypt, and Indonesia.  In 2005 alone, it built dredgers for 200 customers in 25 countries, earning the "Export Achievement Award" from the U.S. Commerce Department for that year.

In total, the company has manufactured 1,300 dredges for 70 countries.  During the building of these dredges, Ellicott International’s employees may have been exposed to dangerous materials used in this equipment, including asbestos.  The presence of this material was especially noticeable in dredge machinery produced prior to the asbestos warnings of the mid-1970s. 

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