Channel Products

Employee size

51-200

Organization type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Solon, OH

Founded

1972

For more than four decades, Channel Products has engineered and manufactured component systems and technologies, with a particular reputation for ignition controls and related components used in gas appliances. The Solon, Ohio, company combines custom engineering and retrofit work with global manufacturing operations, and has earned 45 patents since 1972. Its FireGenius system extends that ignition expertise into connected gas-fireplace controls with Bluetooth and mobile-phone integration.

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