08/19/2026
Ten years ago, PowerSafe Automation needed more room. Actually… we needed room, period.
In the early days, projects were being assembled in CEO's living room — they finally drew the line when metal shavings started finding their way into the carpet. Not long after, they learned about a vacant building in Wolcottville that wasn’t even listed for sale. They tracked down the owner, worked out a lease-to-own agreement, and PowerSafe had a home.
The building had been sitting vacant for years, and there was plenty of work to do. Offices were remodeled. Walls moved. Spaces changed purpose. What would eventually become part of the engineering office was once a gym. What is now an office was once a closet. And the shop changed even more.
For the first time, we had room to buy extrusion, polycarbonate, and mesh in bulk. We bought our first saw — a purchase that felt enormous at the time — and slowly began bringing more of our manufacturing capabilities in-house.
As PowerSafe grew, the building grew with us. More equipment. More materials. More projects. More people. The shop was rearranged again and again to squeeze out every bit of efficiency we could. Eventually, indoor storage wasn't enough, so shipping containers were added outside.
Then we started storing extrusion outside. Then a single large order required multiple shipments of finished material simply because there wasn't enough room to store it all at once. At some point, the building that had once given PowerSafe room to grow had become the thing we'd outgrown. And that's a pretty incredible problem to have.
Wolcottville gave PowerSafe the space to become more than an idea. It's where we expanded our capabilities, built a team, took on larger projects, and spent the better part of a decade figuring out just how much we were capable of.
Now, it's time for the next chapter. What started as a concept around a campfire in 2015 has officially grown up.
Want to go even further back with us? Watch our 10-year anniversary video to see more of PowerSafe's story: https://youtu.be/gJ0CBnT8uCQ