MATW

Matthews International Corp

A diversified maker of memorials and specialty products based in Pittsburgh, best known for handcrafted bronze cemetery markers, caskets, and cremation urns used by funeral homes and families. It began in 1850 when John Dixon Matthews, an engraver who emigrated from Sheffield, England, opened a small Pittsburgh shop making branding irons and stamps. That shop grew to cast the first flush bronze memorial in 1927, and later produced the bronze marker on Elvis Presley's grave at Graceland and plaques for the Baseball Hall of Fame.