RTD Company

RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE DETECTOR, INC. is located in Cambridge, Minnesota and has been in business since 1976. RTD Company designs, manufactures, and markets temperature sensors. Our primary product line is Resistance Temperature Detectors, also known as RTDs. The company also offers thermocouples and various other components to create complete sensor assemblies.

We would like to think that our products play a big role in people's lives. Despite their affects are not directly visible; our products improve the standard of living by reducing the cost of an array of products. Our end-users implement our products to produce energy, process food and chemicals, and package their products. We help other manufacturers to provide quality consumer and industrial products economically and consistently.

R.T.D. Company's products are essential to the proper operation and profitability of the industries we serve. In spite of relative immaterial initial cost, the relative importance of our products in our customer's applications is monumental. Specific benefits include:

• Increasing process yields,

• Longer life of equipment and shorter downtimes,

• Increasing energy efficiency,

• Minimizing waste products,

• Improving product consistency and uniformity.

Meeting our customers' expectations is in our long established culture. This mind set eventuated our products to evolve as the market forces changed and forced our customers to cut cost, expect higher accuracy and quality. This brought about three different technologies in producing elements, the core component of sensors. Wire wound, plotted and finally thin film, which is still in progress with NASA technology transfer program.