Nordic Ware
Assembled in USA- Headquarters
- Minneapolis, MN
- Manufacturing
- Minneapolis, MN
- Categories
- cookware-and-kitchen
Nordic Ware is the brand that put the Bundt pan in seventy million kitchens, and it still casts aluminium in a factory its founders started building in 1947. Hundreds of products come out of that plant. It is one of the last cookware companies of its size that never moved.
It sits at the second mark rather than the first for a reason Nordic Ware states itself: the “vast majority” of its products are made in Minneapolis, which is a careful sentence and means what it says. Independent review of the catalogue finds the pattern behind it — a domestically cast pan with a handle moulded in China is common across the woks, breakfast pans and roasting racks, and the Treat range is imported outright.
What is unusual, and worth more than a blanket claim would be, is that Nordic Ware labels this product by product on its own site: made in the USA, imported, or assembled in the USA with imported materials, with the imported component named. That is the level of disclosure this catalogue is trying to make normal. The mark reflects the range as a whole; individual pans in it are cleanly domestic and can carry their own records as we get to them.
The record
Products have been manufactured at the company's Minneapolis factory for over 75 years
“We've manufactured Nordic Ware products in Minneapolis, Minnesota for over 75 years. Founded by H. David and Dorothy Dalquist in 1946, the company is a multi-generational family-owned and operated business.”
b2b.nordicware.comRetrieved
The commercial division states that the majority, not the whole, of the range is made in Minneapolis
“70 years later with a good measure of perseverance added, Nordic Ware is still proudly manufacturing the vast majority of its products in Minneapolis.”
nordicwareic.comRetrieved
An independent review finds domestic manufacture with named imported exceptions
“Nordic Ware manufactures the majority of its products in the USA. It takes great pride in this and makes a conscious effort to support American jobs, suppliers, and businesses. Some of the materials it uses are imported, which is made explicit on each product page.”
allamerican.orgRetrieved