JHFOSTER Acquires PTS Products

Nationally known for manufacturing and building custom enclosures and electrical control panels

Eagan, Minnesota, October 27, 2022 – JHFOSTER Minnesota, Inc. (JHFOSTER), a value-added distributor of electrical and pneumatic parts and accessories, compressed air systems and robotics, has finalized its acquisition of PTS Products. Known nationally for manufacturing and building custom enclosures and electrical control panels while providing assembly (electrical, wire harness and cables) for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), PTS Products also specializes in providing a wide variety of contract manufacturing services and products. They also offer kit services, which enables companies to perform their own install.

PTS will join the JHFOSTER Automation Group of companies that continues to expand and includes Sensors Incorporated, Sensors Integration and Automation & Robotics Solutions (A&RS).

“We are pleased that PTS is joining the JHFOSTER group of companies”, Nicholas W. Martino, JHFOSTER CEO and President.  “This acquisition will add additional automated panel design, build and assembly capability that will support our own internal growth needs of our Automation and Robotics Group, and add additional product offerings to our expanding customer base. PTS will join our Automation Group of companies, led by Tim Swedberg, Sr. Vice President, and will maintain its market facing operating independence, while simultaneously benefiting from the expanded capabilities offered by JHFOSTER,” Mr. Martino added. 

Paul Soberg, President of PTS Products, added “We are pleased to join JHFOSTER and its Automation Group of companies, and look forward to being able to add significant scale to the company’s panel capabilities; as we too will benefit from the sales and synergies that will result from our combined businesses. 

PTS Products will continue to operate locally and nationally under the same brand, and remain at its headquarters in Maple Plain, Minnesota.  JHFOSTER will continue to operate in its five-state territory, and from its main location in Eagan, MN.