Ronan Engineering Company

Ronan Engineering Company, a privately held corporation, started business in May 1959 as Ronan Panel Company located at Orion Avenue in Van Nuys in a 2200 sq. ft. building. The main goal of the company was to manufacture instrument control panels for the petroleum, cement plant and power station business.

The major products accomplished at this facility were as follows:

• Control Panels for the main utilities installed in the Los Angeles Airport.

• All of the control panels to monitor the air-condition system installed in the Los Angeles Museum.

• Main control panels to monitor the air-condition system installed in the Universal Movie facilities.

• Provide one of the first attempted paid TV venture systems.

• Prototype our first product being X1D3 tricolor indicator.

The name Ronan was chosen because the first landlord company was named Ronan Plastic Company and had insisted we use the Ronan name to improve his image by posing as a company that was associated with his company.

Three years later, in 1962 we formed the Ronan Engineering Company since the long term goal was to build a company to be more in the instrument and control field. The Ronan Engineering Company was now to be our main company we obviously wanted to incorporate Ronan Engineering Company but were denied due to the existing Ronan Plastic Company Name. As unfortunate as it was, Ronan Plastic Company declared bankruptcy in the year of 1963 which in turn permitted Ronan Engineering Company to become incorporated in the state of California.