An Innovative Custom
Contact Pins Manufacturer
Electropin Technologies LLC is the only custom connector pin manufacturer to leverage Automatic Die Rolling technology. All manufacturing is done here, in the USA, with no tariffs.
Automatic Die Rolling is a high-speed, scrap-free metal forming process. Because we do not cut metal into shape, we can use lead-free material. We do not just meet REACH and ROHS limits, we eliminate them.
Thanks to this innovative manufacturing process, you get higher-quality custom pins at a lower cost than any other supplier can offer.
A Culture of
Manufacturing
Innovation
Electropin is a family business that has been developing innovative approaches to manufacturing for three generations.
Founded in 1943 by Bartley E. Hall in Connecticut as Autoswage Products, Inc., the company focused on manufacturing 2 products. The pins used in fluorescent lightbulbs and beaded chain, primarily used by the U.S. military for dog tags. In the years since, Electropin Technologies LLC has expanded to become a premier custom contact pin manufacturer. We supply customers worldwide who are in the automotive, farm equipment, computer, and medical connector industries.
Today, Electropin Technologies LLC is run by Keith Brenton (Bart’s grandson), who has over forty years of experience helping customers refine their designs to provide an optimal manufacturing experience. Since relocating to North Carolina and rebranding as Electropin Technologies LLC in 2019, Keith and his team have refined and developed Automatic Die Rolling technologies that reduce cost while improving accuracy. Today, Electropin Technologies LLC has a PPM defect rate of less than 600, a feat no other manufacturer can even approach.
Our History
The Beginning
Autoswage Products, Inc., was founded by Bartley E. Hall in 1943 to manufacture lightbulb pins and beaded chain using cold-forming techniques.
The Breakthrough
In the late 70’s, Donald L. Brenton (Bart’s son-in-law) recognized the value of scrap-free manufacturing and invested in the Automatic Die Rolling process, building that manufacturing department to the point of making over 50 million pins a week in the early 1980s.
The Transformation
In 2019, Keith D. Brenton rebranded Autoswage Products into Electropin Technologies LLC, investing further into the Automatic Die Rolling process and expanding its capabilities to produce pins both smaller and larger than its previous limitations. To date, we have produced pins as small as .006″ diameter and .080″ in length to diameters as large as .250″ and lengths up to 6″.
The Power of
Automatic Die Rolling
No other custom contact pins manufacturer can compete with Electropin on price, quality, or speed because no other supplier leverages the power of Automatic Die Rolling. This technology is based on rolling a raw material through a custom die and forcing that material to conform to the shape of the die.
Automatic die rolling eliminates the problems that plague machining. With no cutting tools to wear or get dull, automatic die rolling produces identical parts from the first 10,000 to the next 10 million.
Since Automatic Die Rolling is a scrap-free process, you’re not paying to send metal straight to the scrapyard. Every pound of raw material makes a pound of finished parts.
Also, all manufacturing is done here in the United States, without tariffs.
Because we do not cut your parts into shape, we do not need leaded material, we do not reduce the amount of REACH and ROHS banned substances, we eliminate them.
So if you’re tired of compromising on your pins and you’re ready for a custom contact pin manufacturer that delivers the pin you need every single time, contact us for a quote.
