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.