Berwind-White Company Coal Piers in Jersey City

Berwind Corporation (previously also known as Berwind-White Coal Mining Company) is a large

privately held A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...

American corporation historically involved in the

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

industry. Today it is a diversified company involved in property leasing and ownership of unrelated businesses. It began as a partnership of

Edward Julius Berwind Edward Julius Berwind (June 17, 1848 – August 18, 1936) was the founder of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. He was head of the company from 1886 until 1930. Early life Berwind was born on June 17, 1848 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He w ...

, Charles Berwind, and Congressman Allison White and upon White's death became known as Berwind White Company in 1886. The company was one of the largest producers of coal at the turn of the twentieth century and created several towns in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, including Windber, Pennsylvania and

Berwind, West Virginia Berwind is a town on the Dry Fork in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 278. The town is named for Edward Julius Berwind, owner of the Berwind Company, and was originally a company town. It w ...

. It was a litigant in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions: '' Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. v. Chicago & Erie R. Co.'', 235 U.S. 371 (1914) and '' McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.'', 309 U.S. 33 (1940). In 1962 the family corporation moved from directly producing coal to leasing its properties and

diversification Diversification may refer to: Biology and agriculture * Genetic divergence, emergence of subpopulations that have accumulated independent genetic changes * Agricultural diversification involves the re-allocation of some of a farm's resources to n ...

into ownership of other businesses, including Protective Industries (including Caplugs and Mokon) and, CRC Industries. By 2007 the company's investments in real estate alone totaled over $3 billion. Berwinds founded the Wilmore Steamship Company in 1930.

Companies

Berwind Corporations companies: *Colorcon, pharmaceutical *CRC Industries, chemical *Maxcess, automation systems *Oliver, Healthcare packaging *Caplugs, plastic molding *TASI Group, test and measurement *Berwind Natural Resources Corporation (BNRC), land and resource management company

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Official Berwind Website
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania Non-renewable resource companies established in 1886 Coal companies of the United States Real estate companies established in 1962 Companies based in Philadelphia

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