Burle Business Park (formerly RCA Lancaster Tube Plant) (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

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Built in 1946 by the Navy and operated by RCA as a facility to make military electronics, the plant was later acquired by RCA in 1946 and served as one of their main production facilities for high end electronic vacuum tubes including radio transmitters and color televisions including the first such set, the CT-100.Production ended after the GE purchase in 1986 and the plant was converted into a general purpose office and light manufacturing park.

However the following year, in July 1987, via a management buyout, BURLE INDUSTRIES INC. was founded and today remains in production operation on a part of this site. Burle manufactures Vacuum Electron Devices and Associated RF Circuits for Communications, Science, Radar, Industry & Directed Energy Applications.BURLE joined the PHOTONIS Organization in July 2005. With 85 employees and a new dynamic Management the company remains dedicated to the development and manufacture of specialized Power tubes, Magnetrons and Cavities; still in much demand as the workhorses of the Industry.

1000 New Holland Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17601-5688 U.S.A.
Tel: 1-800-366-2875

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