1916
Company is founded by Elmer Smith and is called Smith Inventions. Primarily a design and
manufacturing operation building a line of oxy-acetylene welding and cutting equipment.
1950-1960
Business expands into markets outside of the welding industry and a high pressure regulator
business is formed. Smith Inventions changes to TESCOM Corporation, an acronym for The
Elmer Smith Company Of Minnesota. The high pressure regulator business grows to be
TESCOM’s principle business endeavor, i.e., the design and manufacture of specialty fluid control devices for “high tech” industries.
1961
Elmer’s son Jack Smith becomes the new president.
1986-1990
Leveraged buyout (LBO) sale of the company is made to three corporate officers. Two
divisions are formed, the Smith Equipment Division producing oxy-fuel gas welding and cutting
equipment and the Pressure Controls Division producing fluid control components.
1990
Direct office in Scotland (UK) opens.
1991
TESCOM joint ventures with Drägerwerk AG and changes name to Dräger TESCOM GmbH - an assembly and test operation producing select Dräger and TESCOM products in Lübeck, Germany.
1995
Focus is placed on the fluid controls industry. Divestiture of the Smith Equipment Division
occurs, thereby closing out the product on which the company had been founded, i.e., the
oxy-fuel gas apparatus line. Three divisions are formed: High Purity Controls Division (HPCD),
Industrial Controls Division (ICD), and Electronic Controls Division (ECD).
1997
A new manufacturing facility is built in Selmsdorf, Germany.
1999
To serve TESCOM’s Asian customers, High Purity Controls Division establishes Hankuk TESCOM (HT), a direct sales office near Seoul, Korea.
2000
TESCOM acquires Dräger’s ownership of Dräger TESCOM and the name of the company is
changed to TESCOM Europe GmbH & Co. KG. TESCOM’s UK sales office becomes a direct sales office for TESCOM Europe (TE).
2005
TESCOM is acquired by Emerson Electric Company and becomes a business unit of Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc. The addition of TESCOM allows Regulator Technologies to offer its customers one of the most broadest lines of regulators in the industry and increases participation in growing industries.