Western Reserve Controls, Inc. (WRC Akron)

Employee size

11-50

Organization type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Akron, OH

Founded

1991

Since 1991, Western Reserve Controls has designed and manufactured custom embedded-control, I/O and network-communications electronics for OEMs, taking products from concept and prototype through production in Akron. Its distinctive strength is combining engineering, firmware and hardware development with in-house electronics manufacturing and long-term support, including legacy-product sustaining work. WRC’s U.S.-made products come from an 11,000-square-foot Akron facility serving aerospace and industrial automation customers.

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