![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017, the company’s headquarters and engineering lab were moved to state-of-the-art facilities on the 20 th floor of the Schaumburg Towers’ North Tower in Schaumburg, IL, fifteen minutes from O’Hare International Airport and 30 miles from downtown Chicago. Today, Charles maintains manufacturing operations in five US facilities: Casey, IL Marshall, IL Rantoul, IL Canton, MO and Okeechobee, FL. Since the company’s founding, innovative solutions have continuously rolled out of Charles’ US-based manufacturing centers that have included locations in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Florida. Charles’ mission of “supplying customers with products that fulfill their needs, faster and better than anyone else.” By the time of its 25 th anniversary in 1993, Charles Industries was comprised of divisions including Coil Sales & Mfg., Telco Plastics, Industrial/Midwec Capacitor Corp., United Metering Services, Charles Marine Products, Charles Marina Development, Accurate Electric Division, CI Power Products, CI Transformer, and CI Wescom. Through organic internal development and growth, new divisions were added with diversification created through a steady series of company and product line acquisitions. First deployed in flood prone areas, the Pedlock® closure would soon become the industry standard and set the course for all outdoor distribution enclosures for copper, coax and fiber. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Electrification Administration approved for use non-metallic buried distribution housings, and subsequently accepted Coil Sales’ BD pedestals, the telecom industry’s first non-metallic, above grade, buried distribution pedestals. In 1975, after years of testing, the U.S. The company changed its name to Coil Sales & Mfg, as it introduced unique, cost-saving solutions to the telephone industry. Charles to start Coil Sales in October of that year. The success of the encapsulated modular single-entry load coil, a passive device that would cancel the capacitance created on copper twisted-pairs, and thus improve voice quality on copper telephone lines, emboldened Mr. Charles, then a resident of Mount Prospect, Illinois. “I started the company in the family basement in 1968, and things quickly grew,” recalls Mr. And while it has undergone many changes throughout its history, it has stayed true to its core principle of offering customers value: an overall blend of product knowledge, design expertise, reliability, competitive pricing, customer service and field support. It is an example of a nimble company that through its history has quickly adapted to changing technologies and customer requirements. This year, as Charles Industries celebrates its 50 th anniversary, the company stands as a recognized leader and provider of equipment enclosures for voice, video and data networks. Charles and the company that bears his name would design, manufacture, and market to telephone service providers worldwide. It would be the first of many innovations and patented products that Mr. Patented in 1969, his modular encapsulated single-entry load coil would become the standard for telephone service providers’ copper plant and installed throughout the world. Charles was a young salesman and amateur radio operator who had developed an innovative solution to reduce telephone company maintenance costs, improve voice quality and reduce telephone on-line noise in the outside copper plant. (or you might be using an old version of PDW.SCHAUMBURG, Ill., J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Fifty years ago, Joseph T. If this text is visable, the PDW.CSS stylesheet is missing in current directory ![]()
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