The Radyne Brand

Radyne was born in 1946 with the new company name being created by using the RAD from the word Radio and DYNE which is a unit of force. Their first employee Mr D Thompson an ex-Royal Airforce Officer started working for the company in February 1946 and from this humble beginning a mighty company grew.

The Radyne name soon became synonymous with induction heating and were rapidly known for their innovation and technically advanced products, which were exported to all corners of the globe. Winning numerous awards including being the first recipients of the “Electroheat Award for Innovation” from the National British Committee. By the mid-’50s their reputation grew exponentially, Radyne was a leader in its field and was considered largely a household name in European markets.

Radyne developed specialist expertise in a wide range of metal induction processes including brazing, hardening, annealing, forging, tempering, extrusion, melting, wire hardening and annealing and welding but it also had a strong reputation in the field of plastic induction processes including shrink fitting, coating, plastic sheet welding and many more.

With customer needs at the heart of development, the products were conceived and designed by their team of engineers and draftspeople, who also created many of the new components, PCB’s and circuit boards from scratch in house. Such was the level of innovation that the parts needed were not available to buy and had to be made in the workshops. All this was done at a time when computers and CAD were not invented or remotely common in the workplace.

At its height in the mid 1960s, Radyne was one of the largest employers in Wokingham, England with over 750 employees working in their production factory on Molly Millers Lane. The company was a huge part of the town’s community and regularly took part in community carnivals and other community-spirited activities.

At this time the company had diversified with Radyne equipment also being built in Holland with sales, marketing and service operations in Ontario, Canada and in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

It was not until 1976 that Radyne Ltd, now represented in 27 countries throughout the world, decided to take a long look at the market opportunities within the United States and Mexico, resulting in the creation of Radyne Incorporation, created in North Canton, Ohio in 1978. This company later moved, via Elk Grove Village, Illinois, to its present location in Milwaukee Wisconsin where Radyne Incorporation purchased an existing company, AKO Manufacturing and changed the name through Radyne/AKO Corp. to Radyne Corporation as it stands today.

Further developments in the areas of ammunition bonding, hardening of shells, cartridge annealing, wire bright and dull annealing, hydronic valve soldering, hardening of caterpillar links, shafts, bearings, races, brazing of manifolds, fuel rails, fuel lines, extrusion of titanium, stainless, billet piercing, composite curing and many others continue to make the Radyne name unmatched in skill and knowledge.