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Phoenix America, Inc.

Type 	Private Industry 	Engineering and Manufacturing Founded 	1999 Headquarters 	Fort Wayne, IN Key people 	John Kaste COO, Scott Mentzer Director Sales & Marketing, Bob Lubier Revenue 	Under $5 million Website 	www.phoenixamerica./com

Phoenix America is an engineering and manufacturing company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana United States. It is a private company, formed in 1999.

Contents

1 History 2 Operations 3 Locations 4 References 5 External links

History

The Company was founded by Robert Lubier, John Kaste and Neal Shaffell in 1999. The group purchased key assets of Xolox which ceased operating in 1998. The assets acquired once supported a portion of the Xolox business providing injection molded bonded magnets and magnetic based Hall Effect and Reed sensors and switches. Kaste had needed to find a way to improve resolutions of Hall Effect speed sensors to provided accuracies 10 to 100 greater that conventional Hall Effect approaches. Kaste also wanted to added detection of direction to rotary applications.

Phoenix America was registered an an ISO certified manufacturing site in November 2000.

In 2004 the Company moved its manufacturing location to 4717 Clubview Drive, Fort Wayne, IN.

In early 2009 the global recession reached Phoenix America, resulting in a large proportion of the workforce being laid off and an additional portion working every other week.

Since 2009, Phoenix America has seen an uptick in business, with staffing returning to full time work. In 2012, Phoenix America has increased the size of its workforce by 25%.

Operations

Phoenix America specializes in magnetic encoders, magnetic sensors and switches and injection molded bonded magnets and sells its products in the major markets around the world.

The company's strategy has been to grow organically sustained by vertical integration and semi custom part development. The company's manufacturing capabilities olio has expanded with the introduction of high speed surface mount pick and place technology, machining centers, EDM and wire machine, screw machines and ink jet marking systems.

Location

Phoenix America's office is situated in small industrial park convenient to I-69 interstate and to the Fort Wayne International Airport.

The company has customers in North America, Europe and the Far East.