History

Founded in 1949 in Buffalo, New York, as the Stored Energy Division, our heritage in the aerospace industry began in the early 1950s with the development of electro-explosive devices.  An early pioneer of the "metal to metal" seal pyrovalve, our valves flew on the Mercury space program in the late 1950s.  The company relocated to St. Petersburg in 1983 and was renamed Conax Florida Corporation.  Production expanded into explosively-actuated life support systems and egress lighting.  After acquiring H. Koch & Sons Company, restraint and inertia reel systems were added to our product lines.  Today, we are part of an international aerospace and defense company, Cobham plc.

Our focus remains on designing and manufacturing electro-explosive devices, safety restraint systems, inertia reels and valves for the aerospace and defense industries.  We have extensive in-house design and testing capabilities.  We are a fully certified ISO9001:2000 and AS9001:2004 facility with a state of the art Class 10,000 Clean Room, precision machining and model shop and an in-house environmental lab.