History of Precision Plus
Precision
Plus began in northern New Jersey as a small one-man machine shop, performing
job-shop work for local companies including several independent vacuum pump
repair companies in the area. The opportunity to specialize in replacement
parts and repair kits for vacuum pumps was obvious and as a result, in 1984,
Precision Plus Vacuum Parts, Inc. was founded in Parsippany, NJ by Bill Miller.
Over the
years the company continued to grow and expand its product line to include
spares and kits for most major vacuum pump brands including Edwards, Leybold,
Alcatel, Stokes and Welch. By 1996 the company employed more than 50
people at their facility in Troy, NJ with operations including complex
machining, filter assembly, gasket manufacturing and component remanufacturing.
Precision
Plus continued to grow and in 1996 Edwards High Vacuum International agreed to
purchase Precision Plus. The company continued to operate out of their New
Jersey facility for the next two years when the decision was made by Edwards to
consolidate the Precision Plus operations into the Edwards Niagara Falls, NY
distribution center where a new team of customer care, sales, engineering and
materials folks took over in 1998.
By 2006 Precision
Plus expanded product line included selling spares and repair kits for dry
pumps and in 2007, Precision Plus opened its first international sales and
distribution center in Munich, Germany. Since then, the Munich team has
grown sales in Europe by more than five-fold.
In 2010
Precision Plus added staff in the Edwards Singapore sales office and began to
lay the groundwork for future expansion of the Precision Plus brand in the
region, leading to opening our newest sales and distribution centers in
Shanghai, China and Singapore in 2014.
Precision
Plus now employs more than 30 people worldwide in sales, marketing, customer
care, new product development, engineering, technical support, purchasing,
quality control, and warehousing and distribution. More than 6,000 SKU’s
are kept in stock for same day shipping. These parts cover more than 600
different pump models from all of the major pump manufactures including:
Edwards, Oerlikon/Leybold, Pfeiffer, Adixen-Alcatel, Gardiner Denver – Welch
& Reitschle, Becker, Busch, Varian-Agilent, Ulvac, Ebara, Kinney-Tuthill,
and Vacuubrand.