Pontifactor

When my father, Tom Ponton, founded Ponton Industries in 1970, his goal was to build a manufacturers’ representative organization that would cover the traditional Southern California MANA, (Manufacturers’ Agents of North America), territory. It wasn’t long until many of our factories were asking us to expand to either Northern California, Arizona, or both. My father…

I was recently privileged enough to be invited to one of our very best manufacturer’s 100th anniversary of being in business.  Cashco, who manufactures an excellent line of regulators and control valves, is located in Ellsworth, Kansas.  The company’s history dates back to the days of A. W. Cash and has taken several turns over…

Now that I have the bar set low I’m going to introduce you to a new technology that is going to make you rethink the way continuous water analysis is done. In the last edition of the Pontificator I made this comment: “As mentioned in our last blog post Ponton Industries has had the good…

Bet you couldn’t wait to read about Clearwater Controls’ DERAGGER that I mentioned on my last Blog! Okay that may be a little over zealous of me. As mentioned in our last blog post Ponton Industries has had the good fortune to bring to market new products and technologies whose value to the customer is…

Having been in the instrumentation and controls business for over 35 years I’ve seen my share of revolutionary and evolutionary instruments come to market. Every so often I have the distinct privilege of representing a company that comes up with a truly game changing innovation whose selling proposition, or owning proposition, depending on which side…