About Us
LEADING THE WAY SINCE 1926
Celebrating 90+ years of service excellence!
At Allanson International, our goal is to be your most attentive partner, while maintaining a commitment to innovation, quality and unparalleled service.
Allanson International, based in Toronto, Canada brings advanced technology and best practice engineering together, resulting in quality solutions to the Sign Lighting and HVAC markets.
Allanson features a comprehensive product line of lighting solutions that include: Flexible & Rigid LED Border Tubing, LED Retrofit solutions, high output fluorescent ballasts, high intensity discharge ballasts, transformers, power supplies and more.
Serving the HVAC market with our full line of Environmental Electrics products is where it all began for Allanson. This market continues to drive us forward through innovation and support of residential: oil/gas ignitors, transformers, mounting plates and testing equipment.
Air & Water purification is more important now than ever! Our selection of residential and commercial UV sterilization products, are backed by the Allanson legacy.
With continued research and development of new products, we have prospered and grown into a one of the most respected electrics manufacturers in North America.
Being environmentally conscious and driven by an innovative spirit, Allanson has maintained it youthful spirit and vitality, while it thrives in the new age.
Leading the way since 1926
For more than 90 years, Allanson International, based in Toronto, has led the way within the HVAC and Lighting industry. By harnessing cutting edge technology and forward-thinking engineering processes, Allanson International has established a reputation for delivering solutions that inspire.
Our History
Allanson started as a re-builder of automotive generators and starters. Mr. Harry E. Allanson, founder, was virtually the “father” of rebuilding in Canada. During the 1920s Mr. Allanson, traveling on a bicycle, picked up burned out armatures from various garages, and carried them to his basement. There he rewound them by hand, and delivered them back to the garages, making this the country’s first rebuilt product.
From these beginnings, this operation grew and progressed steadily into a company which employed over four hundred employees in two plants, manufacturing hundreds of products and serving customers in approximately 20 countries of the world.
During the Second World War, our manufacturing and technical facilities were devoted almost entirely to our war effort, but soon after, we were the first to introduce an exchange generator program, followed by exchange starters and voltage regulators, ignition transformers, neon transformers and fluorescent ballasts. In 1964, Allanson again pioneered the field with Canada’s first exchange alternator program, also supplying technical information to assist the mechanic to get his share of the market.
During these formative years, the quality of our products and our reputation for consistently fine service permitted our volume to reach such proportions that we achieved having salesmen and stocking warehouse from coast to coast. Although we had the oldest name in the rebuilding industry, we still maintained the newest approach.
Our warehouse in Farmingdale Long Island has been serving customers with same day service for almost a quarter century.
It has always been a Canadian owned company. At first it was maintained by the employees of the company until the 60s when it was bought by Jannock Ltd. Then, in 1993 returned to private ownership.
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