Macro Sensors Company History

Macro Sensors is "your sensor business partner...," solving position measurement problems as an extension of the customer's engineering resource. Macro Sensors designs and manufactures highly accurate, extremely rugged position sensors utilized in industrial and aerospace applications worldwide.

Macro Sensors traces its origins directly to Herman Schaevitz who founded Schaevitz Engineering in 1945. Mr. Schaevitz is widely recognized as the pioneer developer of LVDT technology. He transformed the LVDT from a hand-made laboratory device to the mission critical position sensor it is today and built Schaevitz Engineering into a successful enterprise with the LVDT as the core product. Following Mr. Schaevitz' retirement, he was succeeded as CEO by his son, Howard, who presided over a decade of extraordinary corporate growth and product expansion.

After the sale of Schaevitz Engineering to a larger firm, Howard and several members of the Schaevitz "brain trust" formed Macro Sensors, a division of Howard A. Schaevitz Technologies, to design, manufacture and market position sensors and related products. Macro Sensors' personnel bring a level of knowledge and experience unrivaled in the position sensor industry with more than 500 years of cumulative design and manufacturing know-how. The organization continues to flourish in the manner established by its predecessors, fueled by an expanded product line and customer driven design-for-application engineering.

In 2005, American Sensor Technologies (AST), a state-of-the-art manufacturer of Krystal Bond™ Technology MEMS pressure sensors, acquired Macro Sensors, thereby creating a single source offering customers both pressure and position sensing expertise at the highest level.

American Sensor Technologies (AST)

AST was founded in 1997 by a professional management team with knowledge and experience in the MEMS-based sensor industry, along with the drive to manufacture products in the U.S. Their relationship provides AST both unique and complementary talents in development engineering, marketing and business administration. Collectively, the founders bring over 80 years of industry experience to AST, assuring the company's ability to manage fast-paced business growth while sustaining the frequent introductions of new technologies and products.

Common applications of AST's sensor products are industrial OEM, fluid power, hydraulic systems, fuel cells, medical gases, HVAC/R, water management, oil & gas exploration and off-road vehicles. By utilizing AST's exclusive portfolio of sensor technologies including the proprietary Krystal Bond™ Technology, the specialized needs of key niche markets can be supported. Many of AST's products offer UL/cUL, CSA and CE approvals in hazardous environments.