YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
In life, it’s all about connection – and in mission-critical applications, connections that carry information or power must be absolutely reliable. With factories in Singapore and Auch, France, Positronic Industries today is a go-to company with international breadth for industries that absolutely have to get it right. The Mach-D connector is designed to provide precise and dependable electrical connections, even in harsh environments.
SBJ: Explain it in terms anyone could understand: What does the Mach-D connector do?
Corinna Foley (Positronic’s director of sales and marketing): Connectors are used to move either power or signal from one place to another. Everything you’re working with, whether it’s your printer hooking up to a computer, or any time you’re getting power out of the wall, connectors are making it happen. The Mach-D is a very high-performance version of a basic connector model. If you’re moving signal around or you want to move data from one place to another, you can’t have electrical noise coming in and interfering with that.
SBJ: Positronic is rooted in the Ozarks, having been founded in Springfield in 1966. How important is that heritage to the people who work there?
Foley: When you think about our local Ozarks employees being able to contribute directly to a product that contributes to the defense of our country, that’s something our team members take a lot of pride in. We’re also part of what helps make aircraft safe, and you can believe I take that seriously when I set foot on a plane and I know our connectors are doing jobs on that plane. If there’s something cool and electrical going on in the world, whether it’s AI-related or missile defense, we’re participating in it.
SBJ: There must be very stringent standards involved with the markets you serve. Can you describe some of those?
Foley: There are a lot of controls put around the repeatability of our processes and the materials that we use. You can’t buy this kind of plastic today and some other kind tomorrow – it has to be a qualified product from sources which the defense market and commercial air market are willing to use. There are heavy restrictions against using any materials that come out of China. That does make the high-reliability market more expensive than the consumer market. When it comes to raw metals, there’s almost no raw metal, mining or smelting that takes place in the U.S. – that’s primarily in China and South America, and we use South American sources.
SBJ: Positronic seems unique among area industries in many ways. Are any local companies doing what you do?
Foley: Definitely the exact market of electrical connectors is unique for this area. The nearest other manufacturer of electrical connectors that I could think of would probably be in Chicago. There are people who are in adjacent industries, like Midcon [Wiring Solutions] in Joplin, which does cable connectors, and several other folks who work in those kinds of areas. A lot of markets intersect with ours.
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