Qualitrol
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| Founded | 1945 |
| Headquarters | United States |
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Linda Rae (President) |
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| Parent | Fortive |
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| Website | web |
Qualitrol is a global asset condition based monitoring company headquartered in Fairport, New York, United States. Qualitrol manufacturers and distributes partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products across electrical generation, transmission and distribution industries. Qualitrol condition based monitoring solutions are designed for high-value assets to improve the owner's base utilization by enabling reduced asset failures, maintenance costs, and capital expenditures.
In addition to monitoring equipment, the company offers customer training services and field services, such as on-site start-up and testing, customized maintenance, product upgrades, troubleshooting, and repair services. It serves customers in the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.
George Ford was the founder of Qualitrol. Mr. Ford, born in 1907 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, and son of Thomas Henry Ford and Rachel Mary Jones, was a private investor, sportsman, and philanthropist. His family moved to Rochester, New York when he was a child, where he completed his secondary education and then graduated as an engineer from the University of Rochester.
At the age of 38, he left his position as Vice President of Engineering at the Rochester Manufacturing Company to establish a new company when he became aware of a major deficiency in the manufacturing industry of heavy electronic transformers and generators of diesel engines. He identified the risks of unexpected accidents while using gas and flame without protective devices.
Using seed money from his brother in law, Mort Watters, and from his mother-in-law, Rose Gavin, Mr. Ford decided to build a company to fill the need for monitoring and controlling devices for the electrical transformers industry. Thus, in 1945 Mr. Ford founded Qualitrol Corporation in Fairport, New York, and began to provide the electric utility industry with protective devices and with monitoring systems for transmission and distribution. Mr. Ford opened a branch of Qualitrol in Waynesboro, Tennessee to manufacture valves. Later, Mr. Ford bought the Microcontrol in St. Louis, Missouri, a manufacturer of thermostats, and the Dynapar Corporation in Gurney, Illinois a manufacturer of digital controls. Finally, in the late 1960s, Mr. Ford sold all of his business interests to devote more time to his love of sports.
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