Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Menomonee Falls, in the Greater Milwaukee area, Magnetek specializes in the development, manufacture and marketing of digital power and motion control systems for material handling, people-moving and mining applications. Our power control systems serve the needs of selected niches of traditional and emerging commercial markets that are becoming increasingly dependent on “smart” power. 
Magnetek is:

• America’s largest supplier of digital drive systems for industrial cranes and hoists. We provide Energy Engineered^® drives, radio remote controls, braking and collision avoidance subsystems, motors and more.
• The world’s largest independent builder of digital motion control systems for elevators. We specialize in designing and manufacturing highly integrated Energy Engineered motion-control subsystems for elevators, serving the world’s foremost ‘lift’ builders .
• In underground mining, we focus on coal, building a new generation of digital drive systems that enable mining equipment to recover this resource for refinement to produce “clean coal” energy.

The Company operates five ISO9001:2008 certified research and manufacturing facilities in North America and employs approximately 350 people.