The roots of the Mirro Aluminum Company, commonly known as Mirro, can be trace to the 1885 founding of the Aluminum Manufacturing Company by Joseph Koenig in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In 1909 Aluminum Manufacturing Company merged with Aluminum Novelty Company, founded in neighboring Manitowoc, Wisconsin by Henry Vits, and the New Jersey Aluminum Company. The combined company was renamed the Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company, was headquartered in Manitowoc and headed by Vits. The name stuck until 1957 when shareholders approved the change to the Mirro Aluminum Company, a title referring to a number of the company's popularly-known products.