One of the neater application our ERC actuator is involved with is in the hovercraft industry.... (read more to see the video).

We are moving!!

We are in process of moving to our new facility between now and April 16th. Our phone, fax and e-mail are staying the same and we can be reached throughout the move during normal business hours.

Our new address will be: 240 Arlington Avenue East, Saint Paul, MN

An existing client of our 722 ERC actuator who specializes in adapting vehicles for the physically challenged had a need for different actuator.  Although they appreciated the fail-safe options

All our rubber latches are made of pripritary formulation of EPDM rubber.  EPDM (ethylene propylene diene monomer) is a synthetic rubber polymer that exhibits properties that make it an excellent solution for our...

Actus Manufacturing will be closed December 24th & 25th and December 31st & January 1st in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays.  There will be limited phone and web personnel available December 26th through the 28th; please feel free to contact us during the week.  See you in 2013!

Actus was contacted by a company who manufactures custom controls for remote operation of heavy duty equipment.  Their clients presented them with the problem of remote controlling a small excavator by controlling some of the extensions.

In honor of the AUVSI show next week, which we will be exhibiting at, starting now the first 10 people to order on our website and enter the coupon code "auvsi2012" will get 10% off their entire order!  The offer expires on August 10th.  Thanks for your support and business!

Stop by our booth #4061 at the AUVSI (Association for the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Internation) in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The expo is August 7th to the 9th.  We'll see you at the show!

A few weeks ago a client asked our customer support staff trying to help him find the right replacement actuator for his application.  After working with him and solving his problem we followed up with him...

We had an end user contact us who was familiar with our 720 series actuator and had a need to control one wirelessly.  After a few minutes discussing his application we were able to identify...

We don't only sell to OEMs, we also sell to end users.  Earlier this week we received a call from an end user looking for an actuator. They gave us their specifications which consisted of a 720 series actuator, a push-pull cable...

We will be attending the Pumper and Cleaner Expo show this year in Indianapolis.  We will be there February 28th through the 29th.  If you'd like to meet up with us, shoot us an e-mail! 

We look forward to seeing you in Indianapolis.

Here at Actus Manufacturing, we are continually striving to provide our clients with the best possible value in electric actuators and controls, hand controls, and rubber draw latches.  In the past three years we’ve ...

One of the clients we work with specializes in taking raw engines and adds custom packaging to each engine.

As we come up on our 60 year anniversary, it's fun learning some of the places our products have found homes.  About a month ago we got a call from a pineapple orchard in Oahu Hawaii.  They have a pair of trains which operate 364 days a year and use two of our 150 series hand control to...

Effective immediately, the 771-0107 positional electronics has reached its end of life.  The following part numbers are also affected: 001-4622, 001-4703, 001-8639...

We got a call from a potential customer who specializes in autonomous vehicles.  They liked the idea behind our 722 series actuator but for their application needed a mounting style more like the 723.  They also had...

One of the interesting applications we've been involved with involves 1/8 scale train locomotives.  Many years ago we partnered with a small company that needed a way to control their train locomotive...

Are you from Australia or New Zealand?  Are you interested in being a local distributor of Actus products?  We would love to hear from you!  Please contact us.

A potential client contacted us needing a dependable rubber latch for a new product.  We were able to ship out a dozen latch samples that day which allowed them to begin mock-up right away.  Nine days later they...

In honor of our attendance at Con Expo this year in Las Vegas, we are offering a 10% off discount on items purchased through our online webstore.  The coupon code is "conex2011" and is valid from March 22st through the 25th (the days we will be at the show).  While the sale is going on, we will posting to our twitter account what we are up to while at Con Expo; follow us!

We will be attending Conexpo show this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center.  We will be there March 23rd through the 25th.  We won't have a booth this year, we will be walking the show.  If you'd like to meet up with us, shoot us an e-mail! 

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas.

About a month ago we got a call from a Fastenal branch, which buys various rubber latches from us, and they had a problem.  One of their customers is a global company which along with having domestic facilities also has a...

One of our niche industries that we sell into is automotive racing.  In this industry we aren't on the race vehicles, rather on the engine dynamometer which they use for engine performance testing.  In the...

We are prepping for the World Ag Expo happening on the 8th through the 10th.  We will be at the show, please contact us if you'd like to meet up or have us stop by your booth!

We will be attending the World of Concrete show this year in Las Vegas.  We will be there January 18th through the 19th.  We won't have a booth this year, we will be walking the show.  If you'd like to meet up with us, shoot us an e-mail!

Today we are rolling out a new area on our website, a news section.  The news that is posted in this area feeds our Facebook and Twitter accounts.  With all of these outlets now available it will allow us to keep our customers and clients informed in real...

We received a call from a customer in Chile, South America looking for a replacement actuator that controls the throttle on a ski lift.  He gave us the serial number which dated back to 1986.  Lucky for him, we still made that exact model number and were...

More products have been added to the website including a lot of 720 series actuator and spare parts.  Internally, a new process has been created to allow for online orders to be streamlined through our order entry system and go straight to...

We noticed that one of our customers was ordering one of our 720-0117 actuators along with some additional spare parts on a regular basis.  Our sales team proactively made a call to understand how they were applying the products they purchased...

We recently received a call from a longtime customer of over 10 years, which we hadn't heard from in about a year.  As it turns out, he switched from using our latch to using a competitor's product; seeing as he was getting a significant cost savings...

We got a call from an existing customer with a new coating specification for our 3” rubber latch hardware.  We took that specification and found a coating solution that met all of their requirements.  Because of our fast turnaround our customer was...

An existing customer called us looking for help in modifying our current 720 series model that they were using.  What they wanted was to be able to adjust the actuator stroke to maximize the physical limits of the actuator stroke.  We fabricated a new...

A customer came to us looking for an actuator that could run on a 12VDC signal input instead of a DPDT switch.  After some collaboration we decided what would suit their needs is a 720 actuator with three independent and adjustable set points...

We got a call from a potential customer who had a little bit of experience using our 720 series product.  What they wanted was to take their own proprietary controller and adapt it to drive our 720 series actuator, allowing for very accurate positioning...

We are pleased to announce the release of our new website!  Comprising of more technical information and an online web store, we are constantly striving to meet the needs of all of our customers.  Engineers will now be able to find the technical...