History and Business

Pentronix was incorporated in Michigan on February 3, 1966 to design, develop and produce a sliding anvil press to produce memory cores for the computer industry. The design and development of the standard production model press was completed in December 1966, and the first unit was shipped on March 20, 1967.

In May 1969 Pentronix obtained additional financial and physical resources for growth and expansion by merging into, and becoming a division of Wolverine-Pentronix Corporation.

Subsequent to the development and marketing of the memory core press, Pentronix engaged in an extensive program of research and development to adapt the press to types of compacted powders other than ferrite. New presses of the same general type were designed and developed to handle powdered ceramics and powdered metal parts of larger sizes and also pharmaceutical powders.

In 1984 Pentronix completed the design and development of the "Multi-Loader", an electro-mechanical automatic parts loading machine, and began production in 1985. These units are used to load parts from a press or feeding machine one at a time or row at a time, at up to 60 parts or rows of parts per minute.

Sales of Pentronix Presses and Multi-Loaders are handled directly through its own divisional sales personnel in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Israel and Australia and through distributors and agents in other parts of the world such as the United Kingdom, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, India, and South America.

Pentronix has also significantly broadened its product base for participation in markets not previously serviced by acquiring exclusive distributorship rights to market non-competing powder compacting presses and other related equipment manufactured by other companies, such as isostatic equipment manufactured by Simac Limited, United Kingdom.

Pentronix is thus broadening its base for future growth by adding complementary product lines while at the same time enabling Pentronix to better serve the total powder compacting needs of its current and future customers.