Red Lion Controls

Red Lion Controls, daughter company of Spectris plc, manufactures products in communication, monitoring, and control for industrial automation and networking. Red Lion's large offering of products include motor drives, G3 operator interface panels, slave displays, ethernet switches, PID controllers, protocol converters, rate meters, counters, proximity sensors, and power supplies, to name a few.

 

History

Red Lion Controls was founded in a garage back in 1972. Its first product was a sensor which used magnetic pickup to measure the rate at which a shaft turns. The data picked up was displayed on a third-party device. In 1976, the company expanded its product line to include counters and panel meters to provide customers with a complete solution that allowed them to monitor and display data within a plant or process. In 1996, operator panels were added to the company's product offerings when the company acquired Paradigm Controls. In 2004, Red Lion introduced Data Station Plus. Six years later, the company acquired N-Tron, which enabled the company to add ethernet switches to its product line. In 2011, Red Lion acquired Sixnet, adding cellular and remote telemetry units to the company's expanding product offerings. ProdcutTVity, a ready-to-deploy visual management system displaying real-time KPI data and Andon messages, was introduced the following year.

 

Headquarters & Locations

Red Lion headquarters is located in York, Pennsylvania. The company also has several offices around the globe: Amersfoort, The Netherlands; Shanghai, China; Haryana, India; Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore. Red Lion also has three technology centers in the U.S.: Ballston Lake, New York; Mobile, Alabama; and St. Louis, Missouri.