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| The Hargrove story
begins in 1959. In that year, the Hamilton company
began producing a line of gas logs under the "Flicker
Flame" brand from factories in Costa Mesa, California, and later,
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Flicker Flame gas logs were noted
for their exceptionally realistic logs, which were molded from the
branches of real trees. Those original designs
still form the basis of Hargrove's Birch, Classic Oak and Grand Oak
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| In 1984, the Hargrove
family purchased the assets of the company and formed the Hargrove
Manufacturing Corporation. Shortly thereafter, production facilities
were moved from Oklahoma City to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, near Tulsa,
and manufacturing processes were improved to yield greater
production efficiency and quality control, while maintaining the careful
attention to detail that can only be achieved through handcrafting. |
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| Hargrove Manufacturing Corporation began
with a modest production plant, where Gary and Cindy Hargrove themselves
produced
each log set they sold. As word of Hargrove gas logs spread,
the company quickly outgrew the original Sand Springs plant, and another
building was built adjacent
to it. Since then, the facility has grown to a six
building complex of offices and production areas. |
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Through the years, continual review of materials, processes and technologies
have led to improvements in mold making, log formulas, burners and
controls, and has increased
manufacturing efficiency in virtually every aspect of production, inventory
handling and product packaging, yet two simple premises have never
changed - to create the finest, most realistic gas logs available,
we start with the branches of real trees, and to produce the highest
quality products available, we carefully handcraft them. |
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