History

William E. Urschel

Why does a company that designs and manufactures size reduction equipment call themselves a "laboratory"? It all started when William Urschel designed the Gooseberry Snipper in 1910 to remove the stem and blossom ends from gooseberries. The Gooseberry Snipper was a grand mechanical triumph that signaled the start of a small company in Valparaiso, Indiana that would later become Urschel Laboratories, Inc., known worldwide for precision-engineered size reduction equipment. He continued to experiment with new ideas and invented many revolutionary machines for the food industry. Because of this extensive research and development, the company took on the name "laboratory". The company, to this day, is still owned and operated by direct descendants of William Urschel, and we retain the name Urschel Laboratories because of a commitment to continuous development of new machines, the improvement of existing Urschel® machines, and the development of innovative solutions to size reduction applications.