Our UK subsiduary, Mead Europe gives Mead an important presence in the expanding European fluid power marketplace. This also enables Mead to offer products of both metric and imperial orientation.

Market Strengths
Mead's traditional strength has been in the design and manufacturing of pneumatic components for the industrial automation market. Applications for our extensive valve and cylinder lines cover a broad spectrum of modern industry.

Recent developments, notably the award-winning Isonic® valve technology, have propelled Mead into new, more specialized markets, including medical design, HVAC, process control, instrumentation and fast food.

Mead Firsts
First air clamp
First all-pneumatic built-in end-of-stroke cylinder sensor
First air switch
First totally non-lubricated cylinder
First totally integrated all-pneumatic anti-tiedown control
First cylinders with hard-coated aluminum tubing
First snap-acting 4-way air valve
First valve to utilize multi-patented Isonic® half-shell technology