About Us
As with every industry we have seen many changes in the recent past. So we hope you find this new website friendly and responsive. If you do, please tell your friends, if not, then please tell me.
With more than 50 years servicing the needs of our industrial base here in the Northeast we have witnessed the erosion of manufacturing: and yet still managed to increase our share of the available market . People are the key to any service company, and ours are the best; so please try us. While Cutter Atlantic is a private family owned business most of the key employees are from CUTTER FIRE BRICK COMPANY, EASTERN REFRACTORIES, (ERCO), and the refractories operations of ATLANTIC CONTRACTING & SPECIALTIES, and several other smaller companies.
We hope this visit will provide you a glimpse of our capabilities and products as you consider what you need for your furnace/boiler/kiln/incinerator. Someone in our organization has likely been involved in a similar analysis; no need to invent your own learning curve: we can compress it into proper products, exact quantities, and with fair pricing and accurate delivery promises. We represent virtually every refractory/ceramic manufacturer. And we'll guide your decision to the best. That is all that matters to you.
Our History
Lloyd "Beans" Cutter went to work for the A. P. Green Fire Brick Company in 1929. As with many returning veterans in late 1945 he was restless, ambitious, and had established a good construction background by building thirty ,or so, fighter airfields in the ETO, and commanding an aviation engineering battalion of 800 men.
In 1951 he left Green to establish Cutter Engineering in St. Louis. He was successful there, but in 1953 decided to replicate that formula and return to his native New England. That's where he got his nickname.
Cutter Fire Brick Company grew market share as the New England economy phased out slowly manufacturing and medium level industrial plants. The death in 1968 of the founder resulted in several acquisitions, buyouts, and in 1990 the name of the operating company was changed to Cutter Northern Refractories.
On December 1, 2005, with the purchase of certain assets of Atlantic Contracting and Specialties the company have elected to "trade as" Cutter Atlantic Refractories. The F.I.D. number remains the same.