Alhambra, California, USA, April 23 2019 – Riedon Inc., a specialist manufacturer of power, precision and shunt resistors, is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement to acquire KRL/Bantry Components Inc., a long-standing manufacturer of high quality wirewound resistors.
“Wirewound resistors continue to offer significant advantages over alternatives in many applications,” said Frieda Hovsepian, VP Sales & Marketing at Riedon Inc. “This acquisition further strengthens our position worldwide as the leading manufacturer in this evolving market and enables us to continue to meet our customers’ needs through an even wider range of products, including custom design resistors that can be tailored to meet their specific requirements.”
Based in Manchester, New Hampshire, KRL/Bantry has manufactured high-quality power and precision wirewound resistors for over 40 years to serve demanding power supply and instrumentation applications across a range of industries including medical, avionics and telecoms.
The company is an established leader in specialty items such as temperature-sensing probes, wirewound resistor networks, cold-junction compensation networks and resistance standards. The acquisition will significantly enhance Riedon’s offering across these key areas while enabling it to further expand its product lines to KRL/Bantry’s existing customer base to provide them with an even more comprehensive set of solutions.
About Riedon Inc.
For more than 45 years, since its formation in 1960, Riedon has been at the cutting edge of resistive solutions, supplying Wirewound, Thick & Thin Film, and also Foil resistive products to industries as diverse as Aerospace, Military and Instrumentation.
Riedon employs more than 130 team members worldwide and has manufacturing, technical support and sales facilities in the USA, Europe, Asia, and Mexico.
Further information on Riedon’s extensive portfolio of resistive products, including surface mount wirewound, thick and thin film, and metal foil resistor technologies, is available at www.riedon.com.