BNET Industries

PI Inc.

is in the Manufacturing Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$37.3M

Private
US

Dow Jones Description

With Mr. Beene and two employees, the company began making plastic letters and shoe displays; then expanded to make hosiery inspection forms. From its small Pope Avenue site, Plastic Industries - as the company was known then - moved to its first industrial building in 1955. That building has been expanded several times and is now Plant #1 on Congress Parkway. Innovation and creativity are among the most important characteristics of P.I. and its employees - from the executive offices to the shop floor. Plastic Industries started a revolution in the furniture industry in 1956, when it began making furniture legs out of injected molded plastic. Millions of the P.I. "Through-bolt" legs have been sold around the world. Another breakthrough was the development of solid molded furniture parts. Chemical engineers in 1963 said it couldn't be done - they said polystyrene would collapse as it cooled if molded in thick sections. Fortunately, no one told this to the production employees at P.I. This innovation gave makers of medium priced upholstered furniture new styling options, allowing them to give consumers features once seen only on expensive pieces. The Ralide saddle tree was as revolutionary to the horse tack business as molded legs had been to furniture. Before 1964, all Western saddles were made of leather stitched over a multi-part wooden frame. The technology used to make solid furniture parts allowed P.I. to make a solid, molded saddle tree which was stronger and less...

Number of Employees 250

Contact Information

213 Dennis Street

Athens, Tennessee 37303

www.pi-cm.com

(423) 745-6213

Peer Companies

NAICS Code All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing: 326199

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Nanoautomation catalog. (New Literature).(Polytec PI Inc.)(Brief Article)

- 2002-01-01

The 400-page book is a reference guide on the fundamentals of nanoautomation, nanopositioning and micropositioning. Products include hexapod micromotion robots, nanopositioning stages, and piezoelectrically driven actuators with sub-nanometer resolution. Polytec PI, Auburn, MA 01501. www.polytecpi.com 508-832-3456 Write In 108 -...

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6-D Photonics Alignment Engine.(Polytec PI Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

- 2002-01-01

Polytec PI; Auburn, MA www.polytecpi.com Polytec PI, Inc. introduces the new HexAlign[TM] Photonics alignment system. The superior flexibility of the new alignment engine is based on the virtual-pivot-point capability provided by its industry-class 6-degree of freedom Micro-Hexapod drive system. The combination of...

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Microscope objective NanoScanners.(Polytec PI Inc.)(Brief Article)

- 2001-11-01

Microscope Objective Polytec PI Auburn, MA www.polytecpi.com Polytec PI completes it PIFOC [R] family of high resolution, objective NanoScanners from PI. P-722/P-723 PIFOC [R] Microscope Objective NanoPositioners can be mounted on almost any microscope. The units are screwed between thr turret and the objective,...

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XYZ NanoAlignment System.(Polytec PI Inc. NanoPositioning system)(Brief Article)

- 2001-07-01

Polytec PI, Inc. Tustin, CA www.polytecpi.com Polytec, PI introduces the ultra-fast, compact F-130 NanoPositioning system from NanoPositioning specialist PI. The F-130 combines 15 x 15 x 15 mm motor driven travel range with ultra precision PiezoNanoPositioning technology and nanometric scale resolution. Further, this low-cost...

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PI, Inc. Gunsmith-Machinist Vise

- 2000-08-01

Many GUNS readers are either full-time gunsmiths or dedicated hobbyists and as such, are always on the lookout for "cool" things that make their job or their hobby easier and more enjoyable. As a frustrated home-hobbyist-gunsmith-tinkerer type I find one of the most trying things are those little "just take...

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