Magnetek Inc

Magnetek Inc was founded in 1984. The Company is a provider of digital power control systems that are used to control motion and power mainly in material handling, elevator, and energy delivery applications. The Company currently operates within a single business segment, digital power control systems, and sells its products to large original equipment manufacturers. The Company's systems consist mainly of programmable motion control and power conditioning systems used in the following applications: overhead cranes and hoists; elevators; coal mining equipment; and renewable energy sources. It is a North America's independent supplier of digital drives, radio controls, software and accessories for industrial cranes and hoists, and it is also a supplier of digital direct current (DC) motion control systems for elevators. The customers of Company include industrial crane and hoist companies in North America and the world's elevator builders. It is a provider of power control and delivery systems and solutions for overhead material handling applications used in industries such as: aerospace, automotive, steel, aluminum, paper, logging, mining, ship loading, nuclear power plants, locomotive yards, and heavy movable structures. The Company's material handling products include drive systems, radio remote controls, and braking, collision-avoidance, and electrification subsystems, sold mainly to original equipment manufacturers of overhead cranes and hoists. The Company also designs, builds, sells, and supports elevator application specific drive products and is recognized as a leader for DC high performance elevator drives, as well as AC drives for low and high performance traction elevators. The Company's elevator product offerings are comprised of integrated subsystems and drives used to control motion mainly in high-rise, high speed elevator applications. The Company's energy delivery product offerings include power inverters for fuel cells, solar panels and wind turbines, which deliver AC power from these energy sources to the utility power grid. The Company's main competitors included: Konecranes Inc., Power Electronics International, Inc., Cattron Group International (a division of Laird Technologies), Conductix-Wampfler (a division of Delachaux Group), Control Techniques (a division of Emerson Electric), OMRON Corporation, KEB GmbH, and Fujitec.