About
PVA was founded in 1992 by president Anthony Hynes. Hynes began selling dispensing valves for automated and manual dispensing applications out of his home prior to moving to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's (RPI) Incubator Center later that year. It was there that PVA began building XYZ robots to automate their growing valve technology. On October 26, 1992, PVA sold their first automated dispensing system. |
PVA's dispensing valve product line grew rapidly to include technology that proved superior for accurately applying conformal coating materials. In 1994, PVA debuted a selective conformal coating system that would later become the PVA2000. The PVA2000 improved on existing XYZ plotting systems by introducing a closed-loop servo controlled process that proved increasingly accurate and rugged. In October of 1994, Invotronics in Canada became PVA's first selective coating system customer.