Looking back and forward to the future

Celebrating a milestone anniversary is always a special event and as Webtec turns 60 years, it’s a great time to take a look back at what helped to make the company the success it is today in the hydraulic measurement and control industry.

In late 1964 the company was founded as a joint venture between Webster Electric and Applied Power. The original company was called Tektro-Webster and assembled hydraulic pumps and valves for the European market using designs supplied from the USA.

In the 1970’s the company expanded from hydraulic components into instrumentation for hydraulic systems. Today, Webtec designs and manufactures all its products in-house. Over the years Webtec has developed a wide range of portable and permanently installed instrumentation solutions to help engineers with reactive, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance of mobile and industrial hydraulic machinery as well as dedicated flow and directional control valves. 

Over the last 40 years, Webtec has focused on its international expansion, opening offices in St Francis, near Milwaukee, WI in the United States in 1985 and more recently Leverkusen, Germany in 2019. This year Webtec’s international’s success was recognised when it won the ‘International Trade Award’ in this year’s prestigious Manufacturer MX Awards, in partnership with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

During the past 60 years, in addition to the huge changes that the company has made to maintain its leading position in the industry, Webtec continues to evolve to meet the challenges of a modern manufacturing company today. Using its unique four-step customisation process called Make it Blue®, Webtec has focussed on developing innovative solution like Interpass® safety protection, QuickCert® mobile-phone based reporting, FlowHUB® hydraulic flow meters and built-in ViscoCorrect® algorithms. 

Since 2013 Webtec has supported the UK Arkwright Engineering Scholarship Scheme, with the ‘Roy Cuthbert Scholarship’, in honour of their founder, and to encourage the most talented STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) students. Webtec also published a book via Amazon called an ‘Introduction to Practical Hydraulic System Maintenance’, aimed to help educate technicians and engineers new to hydraulic fluid power maintenance and hydraulic engineers, while the ‘Outreach Team’, work closely with local schools and colleges to encourage young engineers of the future.

It is great to look back, but just as important to look forward to the exciting opportunities that lay ahead for Webtec.

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