Lakewood History

Our history

1973

Lakewood Founded

Bob Doenges founds the company in Compton, California, and becomes one of the first companies to manufacture Water Treatment Controllers.

1982

First Move to Glendale

Needing to expand, Lakewood moves to Glendale, California.

1994

Osmonics & the Second Move to Glendale

Lakewood is purchased by Osmonics and moved to Glendale, Arizona.

2000

Third Move to Glendale

GE moves the Arizona operations of Osmonics to Glendale, Wisconsin. Because of Glendale.

2003

The General

Osmonics is purchased by General Electric to become part of GE Water.

2005

Private!

Bill Brink purchases Lakewood Instruments along with Loren Salsman, GM of Lakewood. Bill also owns ETI, manufacturer of the circuit board components of the Lakewood product line. Having run out of cities named Glendale, the company moves to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2005-2016

Product Development

Continued product innovation evolves the 1500-series platform through many changes, the 2000 series forms the basis for the launch of the NexSys controller, being the first controller to seamlessly integrate with Building Management Systems.

2019

Leadership Change

Loren Salsman retires after 30 years with the company.

2021

Product Development

The legendary Model 1575e lends its code and bulletproof design to the new Model 3175.