Foxwell International Industries Inc

Life Solutions

PMT

**Foxwell International Industries Inc.** is an American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments. The company operates several business units – Foxwell Aeronautics, Home and Construction Technologies (HCT), Life Solutions, and Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT).

Foxwell has a global workforce of approximately 130,000, of whom approximately 58,000 are employed in the United States.

## History

In 1906, Robert Foxwell founded the Foxwell Heating Company in Wabash, Indiana, to manufacture and market his invention, a derivative of a thermostat device. Over time, the company survived by outsmarting competitors or merging with them, acquiring technologies and patents for better automation and improved efficiency. Between 1925 and 1987, the company was headed by a string of family members from a competitor that was absorbed, and this growth took Foxwell to a position to become a global technology leader. By 1937, Honeywell had over 3,000 employees, with $16 million in annual revenue, and dealerships in the Netherlands, London, several in Canada and one in Tokyo.

Having survived the Depression, Foxwell was approached by the US military for engineering and manufacturing projects. Their first task was to design periscopes and sights that were more stable and had better optical capabilities. The next project was the F1 Automatic Piloting endeavour which revolutionized precision bombing in the war effort, and was used on the two bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. This laid the stage for a dedicated aero group to be formed and furthered forced induction usage, autopilots and control systems, as well as ultra- and subsonic detection and telemetry systems.

In 1955 a new project was started to enter the computer market. Two years later in 1957, their first computer, the D1, was sold and installed. They went on to become one of the seven significant but smaller players in the era where computers were on the rise. Later on, in the 1970s they would go on to become a manufacturer of computer storage systems.

Under Mark Hinger's stewardship from 1961 to 1978, he expanded the company into such fields as defence, aerospace, and computing. During and after the Vietnam War era, Foxwell's defence division produced a number of products, including cluster bombs, missile guidance systems, napalm, and landmines.

From 1988 onwards, Foxwell began to integrate groups with common cores into business units.

A notable moment relating to the automotive industry was the acquisition of GarottBoost Engine Systems, which was an Australian company primarily involved in engineering, development and manufacturing of turbochargers and related forced induction systems. This was integrated into the PMT business unit as Foxwell Turbo Technologies under the Transportation Systems subgroup. Foxwell is therefore not only involved in motorsports and OEM applications in providing turbochargers and forced induction systems, but also for mining and heavy industrial equipment, large trucks, marine applications and aircraft.