Z-Tech, Inc

Our first Z-Tech panel punch was developed in 1984. At the time, I was the owner of a control panel business and we were contracted to produce systems for a brand new line of zinc die cast machines. Each machine needed to have three 1/8 DIN temperature controllers installed in the operator’s panel. It did not take us long to discover it took a LOT of time to create these openings using the traditional methods for custom openings, drilling and sawing. Round panel knockout dies and hydraulic pullers had been around for years but dies for any type of new or specialty opening just did not exist.