TIMELINE

Below is a timeline highlighting the key milestones of our company

January 1968

New Yankton Inductor Facility

A new 45,000 square foot plant is completed in Yankton for Dale's Inductor division.

June 1967

Film Division Expanison

The Film division in Norfolk moves into a new facility covering more than 36,000 square feet and employing over 400 people.

September 1966

Establish Newark Film Division

Dale relocates its Film division from Columbus to Norfolk, Nebraska, to take advantage of the excellent labor market in that area and form a solid link in a chain of plants extending along a hundred mile line of Highway 81 from Columbus to Yankton, South Dakota.

September 1961

Lionel Acquires Dale

Hathaway becomes a part of the Lionel Corporation and Dale becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Lionel. This results in an organization employing more than 5,000 people in nine states. Lionel, already a household word because of its endeavors in the electric train and scientific toy field, now includes, in addition to the Dale line of electronic components, such products as hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, electronic heat treating equipment, connectors, motorized potentiometers, and heavy industrial electric motors.

August 1961

Consolidation to Dale Electronics

The Cerl-Dale Ltd operation becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dale, at which time the corporation name is changed to Dale Electronics, Inc.

September 1960

Acquire Sioux Radio Products

Company growth continues with the acquisition of Sioux Radio Products of Yankton, South Dakota. The Sioux Division of Dale began with 18 employees in a small facility in downtown Yankton, producing a variety of custom magnetics, high-frequency inductors, surge and lighting arresters, and motorized potentiometers.

August 1960

Hathaway Merger

Dale is involved in a merger with Hathaway Instruments of Denver, Colorado. The Hathaway group includes Clemco Aero Products of Gardenia, California and Sterling Electric Motors of Los Angeles, California.

January 1960

Move to Columbus

For greater efficiency of operations and to create more job opportunities in the Midwest area, the Albuquerque division is moved to Columbus.

September 1959

Acquires Canadian Electrical Resistance Ltd

Dale acquires a one-third interest in Canadian Electrical Resistance Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario. The name of the Canadian firm is changed to Cerl-Dale Ltd.

March1954

Establish Albaquerque Plant

Included in Dale's early expansion are the establishment of a special products plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico in early 1954 and the acquisition of a trimmer potentiometer manufacturing plant in Burbank, California in April 1956.

April 1951

Company Founded

George Risk, founder and first president, begins operations in two small rooms on the second floor of a downtown Columbus, Nebraska office building. Dale Products, Inc. begins the first day of business with three employees, a coil winding machine, and the idea for a revolutionary new of type resistor. This is the RH-25, a heat sink type power resistor with radial fins that is destined to revolutionize the power resistance field. Backed financially by a few Columbus businessmen who had pooled the necessary capital to finance this modest venture, the remainder of Dale's assets consists of nothing but determination.

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Jan 2020

Expanded Lincoln Facility