Elwood Corporation produces a broad range of engineered products.  Comprised of Elwood Fluid Power, Elwood High Performance Motors, Elwood Wyco, Elwood Autotron, Elwood Coil, and Elwood High Voltage Capacitors, products find use in diverse industrial and commercial applications.  Headquartered in Oak Creek, Elwood maintains production production facilities in Oak Creek, Racine, and Cedarburg Wisconsin.

History of Elwood

From his basement in January of 1973, Robert Elwood Larsen started a small company to design and manufacture specialized electronic and electrical control systems for local machinery manufactures. He named his company Elwood Electronics.

In July of 1974, Elwood moved to Washington Ave. in Racine, Wisconsin. Shortly thereafter, Elwood developed microcomputer-based electronic controls and applying them to the industrial market. Elwood developed the hardware and operating system software for what was to become known as System 76 (1976 being the year the unit were first shipped). Over the years, many of these systems have been installed.

In 1977, the Elwood Electronics Company, Inc. was incorporated.  Then in 1978,  development began on a new computer for the industrial market know as the Mini Micro III. The Mini Micro III has enjoyed spectacular success and has been updated over the years to incorporate many new technologies.

In June of 1983, Elwood purchased the Hydraulic Products Division of Rexnord.  This business became the Elwood Hydraulics Company, Inc. The following year Elwood also purchased the Press Division from Rexnord. This division merged into Elwood Hydraulics.  In early 1986, both Elwood Electronics and Elwood Hydraulics moved to their current location in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

In 1992, the two corporations were merged into the Elwood Corporation, which now consisted of 5 groups, the Electronics Group, the Fluid Power Group, the Press Group, the Coil Group and the Autotron Group.

In May of 2001, Elwood purchased Mark 2 Automation Inc. and formed the Mark 2 Automation Group of Elwood . This group supplies the plastic molding industry with state of the art robotics for taking parts from the molding machine and performing secondary operations.

Also in 2001, Elwood purchased the Gettys Group from the Danaher Corporation. This group maintains a long history of the design and manufacture of AC brushless servo motors, DC brushed servo motors, and hybrid stepper motors. Now the Elwood High Performance Motors Group, products fill needs in varied industrial and commercial applications, including:  hand-held medical devices, slot machines, global positioning systems and many types of factory automation and motion control equipment. The High Performance Motors Group is also know for it's special purpose Explosion-Proof, Food-Grade, and All-Stainless motors.