Linak U.S. Inc.

Much has happened since the grandfather of LINAK's present Managing Director established his company, Chr. Jensen Machine Builder, in 1907. At that time the company manufactured flat belt pulleys, V-belt pulleys and grinding mills for preparation of corn and forges to technical schools - something quite different from the state-of-the art products which are manufactured at LINAK today.

In 1976 as a newly graduated machine engineer Bent Jensen, the present Managing Director of LINAK, took over the company, Chr. Jensen and Sons, after his father. Bent Jensen was not quite enthusiastic about becoming the owner of the family company with 7 employees. He would have preferred to go abroad to work, but his father succeeded in persuading him to stay at home. Bent Jensen gave himself 5 years to develop a new product and used among other things the years in-between to rationalize the existing production before he in 1980 had got the quite right idea - the linear actuator.

Since LINAK began manufacturing linear actuators in 1982 the company has grown rapidly. In 1984, the company added an electronics department so that the company could manufacture actuators as well as electronic controls to match. In the years hereafter a tremendous development has taken place within the electronics field. This has had the effect that LINAK has expanded its physical frames 13 times since 1984. Today totally approx. 18.000 m2 are under roof at Guderup - and the "groundwork" for new extensions has already been finished! Also in the USA LINAK has expanded, by building a new factory of 5.000 m2 which holds both production and sales facilities.