The San-tron Story

Family owned and operated, San-tron has been the Sanders family labor of love for over 65 years.

With six decades of experience, San-tron knows every angle of RF connector design and manufacturing. Old standards are challenged and reinvented, while our innovations are driving higher performance and addressing the harshest environments. Every day, we build upon our years of experience, rethinking RF connector design and manufacturing, while supporting some of the biggest defense contractors and communications companies around the world. 

President Brian Davies, with over 30 years of electronic connector industry experience, has brought a wealth of knowledge to our ranks. Having previously managed several successful manufacturing and engineering companies, Brian has championed lean manufacturing and advanced engineering simulation, driving San-tron product quality, reliability and ingenuity to new levels. 

In-House Manufacturing

We're a USA-based, family owned, RF connector company with our design center, corporate offices, and principle manufacturing operation in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Since we manufacture our products right here in our headquarters--supported by our wholly owned facility in Suzhou, China--we are able to provide industry leading lead time and product quality.

Markets We Serve

 

From military and aerospace to medical technology and the wireless commercial market, we have decades of expertise in designing custom and standard connectors and assemblies for a wide array of industrial, hyper-specialized, and rapidly evolving industries.

San-tron interconnects can be found in military programs such as the F-15, JDAM, CREW, over-the-horizon radar, and joint military communications systems. Our products bring
needed dependability to high-level homeland-security programs and some of the most demanding wireless and medical applications around the world.

Aerospace

Aerospace

Defense

Defense

Industrial and Medical

Industrial & Medical

Space

Space

Telecommunication

Telecommunication

Test and Measurement

Test and Measure

Santron Company Timeline

Company Founded

1953
Apollo 11 Landed
Apollo 11 Landed
Expanded
to China

1975
Microsoft Founded
Microsoft Founded
Major Product Release
New Building

1994
First Smartphone
First Smartphone
Major Client

2010
Instagram Launched
Instagram Launched
Design
to 5G

2020
Covid-19 Lockdown
Covid-19 Lockdown
Major Product Release

We've been in business for decades which means we've seen a lot of changes, not just in the industry, but as technology has advanced in the world. Here we've matched up major historical events with how our company has grown over the years.

1954 - Sanders Automatic Machine Co. founded by Kenneth Sanders

1950s
1957 - Russia launches Sputnik 1
1964 - First connector manufactured
1966 - San-tron incorporated

1960s
1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the moon
1978 - Industry’s first one-piece Type N connector

1970s
1973 - Motorola makes first cellular call
1984 - First export order

1980s

1981 - First PC, IBM 5150
1989 - World Wide Web invented
1990 - Moved to new 30,000 sq-ft facility in Ipswich, MA

1990s

1995 - Amazon and Ebay
2003 - San-tron Suzhou China opened
2003 - Quality system certified ISO9001
2009 - eSeries SMA connectors introduced

2000s
2004 - Facebook launched
2007 - Apple introduces the iPhone
2011 - SRX Low PIM product introduced
2014 - pSeries IP68 connectors introduced

2010s
2013 - First genetic cell editing using CRISPR
2020 - Introduction of new, updated logo
2020 - Major expansion of K-Band products

2020s
2020 - Worldwide rollout of 5G wireless services

Social Responsibility

It is San-tron’s policy that in our facilities and supply chain—working conditions are safe,
workers are treated with respect and dignity, business operations adhere to all applicable
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) regulations and business practices are ethical. At
San-tron, social responsibility is fundamental to our culture.
Download our full Social Responsibility Policy