Montalvo celebrates 65 years in web control

The Montalvo Corporation is celebrating 65 years of providing electronic web control equipment, brakes, clutches, and other control devices to the converting industry worldwide.

President Edwin Montalvo said: ‘Our focus is on providing innovative, comprehensive web control equipment, upgrades, and solutions for our customers and helping position them for the future with greater productivity and efficiency.’           

Edwin J. Montalvo, Sr, began the company in 1947 as a New York City-based manufacturer’s representative. In 1970, he changed careers and introduced his patented, air-cooled, dual disc, multiple-range brakes and clutches.           

Montalvo went on to found The Montalvo Corporation in Maine, where the company began producing its electronic tension control systems and load cells. It expanded facilities twice, and moved in 2000 into a brand-new, larger manufacturing and office headquarters in Gorham, Maine, USA. He passed away in 1985.

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