Norlake Manufacturing Company

Employee size

11-50

Headquarters

North Ridgeville, OH

For more than 50 years, Norlake Manufacturing Company has designed and built custom transformers and magnetics in Northern Ohio, growing from four employees to more than 100 across four Lorain County facilities. Its engineering team brings over a century of combined transformer-design experience to prototypes, production runs, and specialized medium-voltage work, including the patented Eagle 18-pulse autotransformer. Norlake has been privately owned under its current ownership for over 40 years and is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

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