Why New England Manufacturers Rely on Andruss-Peskin Corporation for Engineering Expertise

When a melt pressure reading drifts, a temperature loop won't settle, or a sensor keeps failing on a washdown line, a catalog number doesn't fix the problem. Someone who understands your process does. For manufacturers across New England and Upstate New York, that someone is often Andruss-Peskin Corporation, better known as AP Corp.

Six Decades of Getting Measurement Right

AP Corp. was founded in 1959 and has served as a manufacturer's representative for pressure, temperature, strain, motion, sound, and analytical instrumentation. That history matters because instrumentation is not a commodity purchase. The wrong sensor in the wrong spot shows up as scrap, downtime, or a failed quality audit. AP Corp. helps customers avoid those outcomes before they happen.

The company is built on technical expertise and a real commitment to customer service. Its engineers and sales professionals have close working relationships with both the plants that use the equipment and the manufacturers that build it. That is how the right answer gets to your floor, and how your feedback gets back to the factory.

Jeff Wilkins: A Consultative Sales Engineer Who Knows the Applications

At the center of that approach is AP Corp. President Jeff Wilkins. He is an extremely knowledgeable, consultative sales engineer who brings deep application experience to the products he represents. He starts with your application, not with a product. What are you measuring? What are the process conditions? How accurate does the reading need to be? How will the device be mounted, and what happens downstream if it fails?

That is what consultative selling looks like in practice. Jeff can help you weigh why one temperature sensor suits an installation, and another doesn't, whether a pressure transducer needs a different range or mounting style, or how to set up a data acquisition system for a vibration test. Because he leads the company, you get that expertise directly, without it being passed through layers.

The result is a straightforward conversation with someone who understands how these products behave in real plants, and a recommendation you can confidently take to your own engineering and quality teams.

A Product Range That Covers the Whole Process

AP Corp. represents a carefully chosen group of respected manufacturers, so one knowledgeable partner can help with a wide range of measurement needs:

• Analyzers and color sensors
• Flow and displacement sensors
• Pressure sensors and pressure gauges
• Sanitary sensors for hygienic processes
• Temperature sensors
• Strain gages and vibration sensors
• Instrumentation and data acquisition
• Machine controls and upgrades for injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding equipment

The manufacturers behind these lines include names many engineers already know, such as Dynisco, Druck, Heise, Pyromation, Optris, Precision Digital, and Crystal Instruments. A broad line means recommendations come from fit, not from a limited menu.

Industries AP Corp. Understands

Instrumentation needs change from one industry to the next. AP Corp. serves plastics, medical, pharmaceutical, packaging, automotive, aerospace, wire and cable, and food processing manufacturers.

In plastics, that means pressure and temperature instrumentation, gear pumps, feed screws, gravimetric feeders, and color analysis that keep product consistent. In pharmaceutical and food processing, it means sensors suited to sanitary applications. In automotive and aerospace, it often means strain, vibration, and motion measurements where the data has to be right. In wire and cable, it means tight control on continuous lines. In medical equipment, it means precision and reliability that meet demanding standards.

Customer Service That Shows Up

Plenty of companies say they put customers first. AP Corp. builds its business around it. When you have a question, a knowledgeable person responds. When you're facing a stubborn measurement problem, the team works through it with you. When a machine needs an upgrade, they help you think through the options instead of simply quoting parts. That devotion to service is a big part of why the company has lasted more than sixty years.

Andruss-Peskin Corp. Is Moving!

August 18, 2026

We're excited to announce that Andruss-Peskin Corp (AP Corp.) is relocating to a new facility next month! This move marks an exciting new chapter for our company, and we can't wait to settle into our new space.

Our New Location

Andruss-Peskin Corp. 85 Faltin Dr., Suite #35 Manchester, NH 03103

Updated Remittance Address

Please note that our remittance address has also changed. Effective immediately upon our move, all payments should be sent to:

REMIT TO: Andruss-Peskin Corp., 379 Amherst St, Suite #21, Box 477, Nashua, NH 03063

What This Means for You

We want to make this transition as seamless as possible for our valued customers and partners. Here's what you need to know:

• Orders and inquiries will continue to be handled without interruption throughout the move.
• Please update your records with our new physical address and remittance information at your earliest convenience.
• All existing contacts — phone numbers, email addresses, and web addresses — remain the same.

We're grateful for your continued support and partnership. If you have any questions about the transition, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Stay tuned for more updates as we get settled into our new home!

Why Plastics Processors in New England and Upstate New York Call AP Corp.

Walk through almost any plastics plant in New England and you'll find machines that have been running for decades. The frames are solid. The clamps still hold tonnage. What's aged out is everything around them: the controller nobody stocks parts for anymore, the pressure transducer that drifts by mid-shift, the screw that was spec'd for a resin the plant stopped running years ago.

That gap between a good machine and an obsolete one is where Andruss-Peskin Corporation does its best work.

Who is AP Corp.?

Andruss-Peskin, known to most of its customers simply as AP Corp., is a manufacturer's representative based in Nashua, New Hampshire, serving New England and Upstate New York. The company provides expertise in measurement and control for the plastics industry, with a particular depth in upgrades and retrofits for injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding equipment.

That framing matters, because measurement and control is really what a plastics process is. Everything else is mechanical. If you can see melt pressure accurately, read barrel temperature where it actually is rather than where a drifting sensor says it is, and act on both fast enough to matter, you have a repeatable process. If you can't, you have a machine that makes good parts on Tuesday and scrap on Thursday, and nobody can explain why.

Why retrofit instead of buying new?

The math usually isn't close. A new press or extruder is a capital project with a lead time measured in quarters. A control system swap, a new sensor package, or a redesigned screw and barrel is a maintenance line item that can be scheduled around a shutdown week. Processors get modern data, tighter repeatability, and parts availability again, on equipment they already know how to run.

The other reason is quality. Most scrap problems trace back to something measurable. Melt temperature that isn't what the readout claims. Pressure spikes nobody catches because the transducer response is too slow. A mixing section that never fully homogenized the color in the first place. Upgrading the components that measure and move the polymer tends to fix the defect at its source rather than downstream.

What AP Corp. provides

The product side covers the plastics process end to end.

Machine controls. Complete control systems built specifically for injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding machinery, along with individual control components. For a plant running an older machine with a dead or unsupported controller, a control retrofit is often the single change that brings the equipment back to current standards, with modern process data, recipe handling, and diagnostics that a decade-old system simply couldn't produce.

Melt pressure measurement. Extrusion pressure transducers and the instrumentation that reads them, plus melt flow indexers, capillary rheometers, and polymer evaluation equipment for the lab. Accurate melt pressure is what protects a die, a screen changer, and a gear pump from a bad day.

Temperature sensing. Industrial RTD and thermocouple sensors, transmitters, thermowells, and custom OEM probes engineered for high-temperature industrial service. Good control logic is only as good as the sensor feeding it, which is why sensor upgrades so often ride along with a controls project.

Meltstream components. Feed screws in general purpose, barrier, and distributive mixing and melting designs, along with barrels, instrumented barrels, non-return valves, end caps, feed throats, and tie bars. When a processor changes resins, adds regrind, or needs better mixing at the same output, a screw redesign is usually the highest-leverage change available.

Leading-edge technology, applied practically

The interesting part of this business right now is data. Instrumented barrels, smart transducers, and modern controls make it possible to see a process drift before it makes bad parts instead of after. AP Corp. spends most of its time helping plants adopt that capability incrementally, one machine at a time, rather than waiting on a full capital replacement cycle.

Getting started

Most projects begin with a conversation about one problem machine. AP Corp. is located in Nashua, New Hampshire, and can be reached at 508-351-6200 or sales@a-pcorp.com.

Future Design Controls: Advanced Control and Recording Solutions

If you've ever spent an afternoon troubleshooting a finicky temperature controller or waiting weeks for a replacement part, you already understand why the right supplier matters. Future Design Controls (FDC) has built its reputation on solving exactly those kinds of headaches — with well-engineered products, fast turnaround, and technical support that actually picks up the phone.

FDC's product lineup covers a surprisingly wide range of industrial process and temperature control needs. Their single-loop PID controllers span from compact 1/32 DIN panel-mount units all the way up to 1/4 DIN models, plus DIN rail options for applications where panel space is tight. Whether you're running a thermocouple on a heat treat oven or monitoring a 4-20mA process signal in a more complex system, there's likely a controller in their C Series, 100 Series, or 300 Series that fits the job without paying for features you don't need.

For more demanding applications, FDC's multi-loop controllers handle anywhere from one to ten control loops with the flexibility to add alarms, communications, and expanded I/O. Their flagship MCT4 is a good example of what FDC does well — it packs up to three PID loops, a built-in paperless recorder, ramp/soak programming, and a NEMA 4X rating into a single 1/4 DIN package. It's the kind of product that makes panel builders happy.

Process safety is addressed through FDC's FM-approved limit controls, available in both panel-mount and DIN rail/surface-mount configurations. These aren't afterthoughts bolted onto a product line — they're purpose-built to provide an independent safety layer in applications where an overtemperature event has real consequences.

Data acquisition and paperless recording is another area where FDC shines. Their DAQ/paperless recorders meet the requirements of CFR 21 Part 11 and AMS2750H, which matters a great deal to anyone running aerospace processing, pharmaceutical validation, or other regulated processes where documentation integrity is non-negotiable.

FDC also serves specialty markets that often get overlooked by larger controls manufacturers. Their lumber dry kiln and pallet heat treatment controllers address the specific thermal processing requirements of the wood products industry, including ISPM-15 compliance for international pallet treatment — an area where off-the-shelf solutions frequently fall short.

For OEMs and systems integrators who need something that doesn't quite fit a catalog, FDC's custom development capability is worth a serious look. They work directly with equipment manufacturers to develop integrated control platforms for industrial ovens, furnaces, environmental chambers, and other temperature-critical equipment. Custom HMI interfaces, application-specific programming, multi-zone control, and compliance-ready data logging are all on the table — built around the OEM's workflow rather than forcing the customer to adapt to a generic platform.

What tends to set Future Design Controls apart in day-to-day business is their lead time. Standard products typically ship within a week, which is significantly faster than what many competitors can offer. Combine that with competitive pricing and a technical support team that takes the time to actually help, and you have a controls supplier that earns repeat business.

For engineers, purchasing managers, and panel builders in New England looking for a local resource, Andruss-Peskin (AP Corp.) serves as the USA Master Distributor for Future Design Controls in the region — providing direct access to FDC's full product line with the added benefit of local expertise and support.

The Quiet Power Behind Local Manufacturing: The Independent Industrial Sales Rep Agency

If you run a manufacturing plant, an engineering team, or a maintenance department, you've almost certainly worked with an independent sales rep at some point. You may not have thought much about it at the time. But the independent industrial sales rep agency is one of the most underappreciated assets in American manufacturing — and once you understand what these agencies actually do, it gets hard to imagine sourcing critical components any other way.

More Than a Salesperson

The word "salesperson" still carries some tired baggage — a cold call, a pitch deck, a monthly quota. Independent industrial reps operate in a completely different world. They aren't transactional. They're consultative, and in practice they look a lot more like outside engineering consultants than like vendors pushing a catalog.

A good rep walks onto a plant floor and sees process. They see how a temperature controller is wired into a thermoforming line, why a pressure transducer keeps drifting, where a heating element is mismatched to the actual duty cycle. They speak the language of process engineers, controls engineers, and maintenance managers because they've spent careers in those same buildings, solving those same problems. They've seen what works in production environments — and, just as important, what fails.

Wide-Ranging Engineering Expertise

What really sets the independent rep apart is breadth. A direct factory salesperson knows their one product line cold and stops there. An independent rep, by representing multiple complementary manufacturers, develops a much more complete picture of a full application. They can mix and match sensors, instrumentation, controls, and heating products across several principal lines to engineer a solution rather than just quote a single part.

That broader view comes from years of exposure across thousands of plants, hundreds of applications, and dozens of industries — plastics, food and beverage, semiconductor, aerospace, medical device, energy, automation. A seasoned rep agency has consulted on all of them, and the knowledge compounds with every site visit.

Practical Application Experience

This is where the independent agency really earns its keep. Specifying the right product is rarely a clean spec-sheet exercise. There's ambient temperature, vibration, chemical compatibility, line speed, agency approvals, panel space, control logic, and ROI to balance. A rep with real application experience shortcuts weeks of trial and error. They've already seen this kind of installation. They know which sensor handles condensation, which controller integrates cleanly with an existing PLC, which heating profile gives consistent product without overshoot.

That hands-on knowledge protects engineering teams from expensive mistakes and dramatically shortens the path from problem to working solution.

The Bridge Between Suppliers and Local Manufacturers

The independent rep also plays a relationship role that no factory-direct model can really replicate. They're local. They live in the region, they drive past the plants every day, they know the people. When a manufacturer needs same-week support, the rep is the one who answers the phone. When a supplier launches a new product, the rep delivers the home-team introduction.

The result is a long-term partnership built on trust — exactly the kind of supplier relationship local manufacturers need to stay competitive.

Andruss-Peskin (AP Corp.): A Trusted New England Partner

This is the role that Andruss-Peskin Corporation — AP Corp., based in Nashua, New Hampshire — has built its reputation on. AP Corp. is an independent industrial sales rep agency specializing in industrial sensors, controls, plastics instrumentation, and heating products, representing top-tier principal manufacturers throughout New England.

What makes AP Corp. valuable isn't just the lines they carry. It's how they carry them. The team approaches every plant visit the way a working engineer would: with curiosity, technical depth, and a real willingness to roll up sleeves. Whether the application is a high-precision thermocouple installation, a sophisticated pressure or motion sensing setup, melt pressure measurement on a plastics extrusion line, or a custom heating solution for an industrial process, AP Corp. brings the kind of practical application experience that translates directly into faster commissioning, fewer change orders, and fewer surprises down the line.

Being headquartered in Nashua puts them inside one of the densest concentrations of advanced manufacturing in the country. Plastics processors in Massachusetts, medical device makers in Connecticut, food processors in Vermont, machine builders across New Hampshire and Maine — they're all within easy reach of the AP Corp. team. That geographic focus translates into responsive service, in-person technical support, and a real understanding of the specific challenges New England manufacturers deal with: legacy facilities, demanding regulatory environments, tight engineering talent markets, and constant pressure to push throughput and quality higher.

For their principal manufacturers, AP Corp. represents something equally valuable — a credible, technically literate sales presence that builds genuine, long-term relationships with the end-user engineering community. They're not pushing parts. They're growing the business by solving real problems, which is the only kind of growth that holds up over time.

The Bottom Line

The independent industrial sales rep agency, at its best, is a consultative partner whose engineering expertise, application experience, and local presence quietly create value on both sides of the supplier-manufacturer relationship. AP Corp. has been doing exactly that across New England — and for the manufacturers and principals that work with them, the difference is hard to miss.

Pyromation CSA-Certified Explosion-Proof Temperature Sensors Available Through AP Corp.

From the chemical processing facilities along the Connecticut River, to the energy infrastructure of Upstate New York, to the pharmaceutical and biotech corridors of Massachusetts, the industries we serve frequently include classified hazardous locations where temperature measurement has to clear an exceptionally high safety bar. At AP Corp., we field these conversations every week — and Pyromation's CSA-certified explosion-proof temperature sensor assemblies are purpose-built for exactly this kind of application.

Engineered to Stop Ignition at the Source

Pyromation's explosion-proof assemblies are designed to extinguish flames inside the device itself, eliminating the potential for ignition of flammable mixtures in the surrounding atmosphere. Rather than relying solely on external safeguards, ignition safety is embedded into the sensor's fundamental design — a meaningful advantage when specifying instrumentation for classified areas.

The CSA-certified line covers the configurations our customers most commonly request:

• Fixed-Element RTD and Thermocouple Assemblies
• Thermowell RTD and Thermocouple Assemblies
• Spring-Loaded RTD and Thermocouple Assemblies
• Heat Tracing RTD and Thermocouple Assemblies

Certified for Both U.S. and Canadian Hazardous Locations

Because these sensors carry CSA certification under both NEC and CEC requirements, they are well-suited to the many customers in our territory whose operations — or sister facilities — cross the U.S.–Canada border. Approvals include:

• Class I, Division 1, Groups A, B, C, and D
• Class II, Divisions 1 & 2, Groups E, F, and G
• Class III
• T-Code T6 / T5 / T4
• IP66

Where We See These Sensors Applied Across Our Territory

Across New England and Upstate New York, these sensors fit naturally into applications such as petrochemical and chemical processing, power generation and energy infrastructure, pharmaceutical and biotech facilities with classified solvent-handling areas, food processing and industrial milling where combustible dust is a concern, wastewater digester systems, and the pulp, paper, and wood-products operations that remain part of our northern New England industrial base.

Plenty of Design Flexibility — Including Transmitter Options

Pyromation's CSA-certified line is offered in a wide range of designs, with multiple termination styles and integrated transmitter options available. Engineers can review the complete offering in the Pyromation product brochure on the literature section of the Pyromation website, or use the eConnect portal's online configurator to build a standard design.

Talk to Your Local Pyromation Representative

As the authorized Pyromation representative for New England and Upstate New York, AP Corp. is here to help you specify, source, and apply CSA-certified explosion-proof sensors for your hazardous location applications. Whether you're replacing an aging assembly, designing a new system, or working through a tricky area-classification question, our sales engineers can guide you to the right configuration.

AP Corp. (Andruss-Peskin Corporation) One Tara Boulevard, Suite 200 Nashua, NH 03062 Phone: 508-351-6200 Email: sales@a-pcorp.com Web: a-pcorp.com

Druck Is Now Part of Crane Company — Here's What That Means for New England Customers

When Crane Company completed its acquisition of Druck at the start of 2026, it marked a significant moment for one of the most respected names in pressure sensing and calibration instrumentation — and for the customers and partners who have built their operations around Druck technology for decades. For AP Corp, the authorized manufacturers' representative for Druck in New England, the transition represents an opportunity worth understanding clearly.

Druck's story begins in 1972 in Leicester, UK, where founders Mike Bertioli and John Salmon set out to commercialize the world's first silicon-based piezoresistive pressure sensors. They named the company after the German word for "pressure," a deliberate signal of the precision and quality they intended to deliver. That founding ambition shaped everything that followed. By 2002, Druck had grown into a global force in pressure measurement and was acquired by GE, eventually becoming part of Baker Hughes as that broader portfolio evolved over the following years. Through each transition, the core of the business — including the Class 100 Clean Room in Leicester where Druck manufactures its own silicon — remained intact and continued to advance.

The move to Crane Company, which became effective January 1, 2026, is the latest and arguably most strategically coherent chapter in that history. For anyone asking what happened to Druck after Baker Hughes, or whether Druck is now part of Crane Company, the answer is straightforward: yes, and the fit is a logical one. Crane is one of America's oldest industrial manufacturers, founded in 1855, with more than 170 years of experience building precision-engineered components for demanding applications. Druck now sits within Crane's Aerospace and Electronics segment, which already carried a strong foundation in sensing systems, fluid management, and mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense markets. Bringing Druck's pressure sensing and calibration capabilities into that structure is not a departure — it is a deliberate extension of what Crane has been building for generations.

That strategic alignment carries real implications for Druck's customers. Engineers and procurement teams who specify sensors and calibration equipment for critical applications need confidence that the technology behind those products will continue to be invested in, supported, and available over the long term. Crane is not a financial holding company looking for a short-term return. It is an industrial technology business that understands precision sensing, values it, and has the global infrastructure to grow it. That kind of organizational stability matters, particularly for customers in industries where changing instrumentation suppliers mid-program is neither simple nor desirable.

Druck itself brings considerable strength to the combination. The company serves more than 4,000 customers across more than 70 countries, operating across industries that include aerospace, oil and gas, hydrogen, power generation, motorsport, meteorology, and industrial manufacturing, among others. Its proprietary TERPS sensor platform and its ownership of the full technology chain — from silicon wafer through finished product — give Druck a depth of intellectual property that few competitors can match. Its product portfolio spans pressure sensors, test and calibration instruments, and OEM solutions, all designed for the environments where measurement accuracy is not a preference but a requirement.

For Druck customers across New England — in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine — the local point of contact remains unchanged. AP Corp continues to serve as the authorized manufacturers' representative for Druck throughout the region. AP Corp brings long-standing relationships with Druck and deep familiarity with the applications its New England customers run every day. Whether the need is pressure sensors for a demanding industrial process, calibration instrumentation for an aerospace test environment, or guidance on selecting the right Druck solution for a specific application, AP Corp remains the on-the-ground resource for technical support, product sourcing, and responsive service. The ownership has evolved. The local partnership has not.