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TSEI MEMBERSHIP
Officers and Directors
Standing Committee Chairmen
Staff
Members
Associate Member Companies
TSEI Academic Member Insititutions
TSEI Affiliate Trade Press Members
 

 

TSEI Officers and Directors

 President 

Dominic Grote
Grote Industries Inc.

 Vice President 

Jeffrey Giannelli
Cortina Tool & Molding Company Inc.


 Treasurer 

Scot Tennant
North American Signal Company

 Immediate Past President/Director 

Bradley Van Riper
Truck-Lite Co. Inc.

Director 

Kristen Goodson
Peterson Manufacturing Company


 

 

TSEI Standing Committee Chairmen

 Driver Information Committee 

Mike Incorvaia
Trico Electronics


 Emergency Products Committee 

Michael Lindstrom, Co-chairman
ECCO

Edward Stanuch , Co-chairman
Federal Signal Corporation


 Government Relations Committee 

Edward E. Zimmer
ECCO

 Marketing Committee 

Thomas J. Palumbo
SoundOff Signal


 Vehicle Conspicuity Technology Committee 

Art Hernandez
Grote Industries Inc.


 Membership Subcommittee 
 Communications Subcommittee 
 Standards Subcommittee 
 
 

TSEI Staff

Administrator

Jeremy Denton
Transportation Safety Equipment Institute
10 Laboratory Drive, PO Box 13966
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3966
PH: 919-406-8846
FX: 919-406-1306
E-mail: jdenton@mema.org


 Government Affairs 

Ann Wilson, Vice President
Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
1225 New York Ave, NW, #300
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel: 202-312-9246
Fax: 202-737-3742
Email: awilson@mema.org


 Legal Counsel 

Christopher H. Grigorian
Arent Fox, PLLC
1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-5339
Tel: 202-775-5779
Fax: 202-857-6395
Email: grigorian.chris@arentfox.com
www.arentfox.com

 

 

TSEI Member Companies
BETTS INDUSTRIES, INC.  
1800 Pennsylvania Avenue West
PO Box 888
Warren, PA 16365
PH: 814/723-1250
FX: 814/723-7030
www.bettsind.com

Safety lighting products and accessories for the heavy duty trucking industry.
Company founded in 1901.
CEQUENT ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS  
101 Spires Parkway
Tekonsha, MI 49092
PH: 517-767-4142
FX: 517-767-4707
www.cequentgroup.com

Cequent's Electrical Products division represents market leadership in brake control and electrical solutions serving the automotive, marine, recreational vehicle, agricultural, and utility trailer market segments. Products include proportional and timed electric trailer brake controls, breakaway systems, converters, t-connectors, wiring harnesses, interior and exterior lighting for trailers and recreational vehicles. Primary brands include Tekonsha™, Wesbar™, and Bargman™.
CORTINA TOOL & MOLDING COMPANY,INC.  
10706 West Grand Avenue
Franklin Park, IL 60131
PH: 847/455-2800
FX: 847/451-7247
www.cortinaco.com

An ISO-9002 certified, custom injection molder of plastic parts as well as a manufacturer and marketer of reflex reflectors, emergency warning triangles, traffic control devices, and accessories for the heavy duty truck and lighting market.
Company founded in 1970.

DIALIGHT CORPORATION  
1501 Rt. 34 South
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
PH: 732/909-3119
FX: 732/751-5778
www.dialight.com

Dialight, a manufacturer of lighting products for vehicle, transportation, and electronic markets, has been providing LED solutions to application issues for 30 years.
Company founded in 1938.
ECCO  
833 West Diamond Street
Boise, ID 83705-5291
PH: 800-635-5900 or 208-395-8000
FX: 800/688-3226 or 208/395-8190
www.eccolink.com

ECCO designs, manufactures, and markets back-up alarms and warning lights for commercial vehicles. ECCO has been certified to ISO-9001 since 1993.
Company founded in 1972.
FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION  
2645 Federal Signal Drive
University Park, IL 60466-3195
PH: 708/534-3400
FX: 708/534-4888
www.fedsig.com/heavyduty

Federal Signal manufactures audible and visual emergency warning products
Company founded in 1901.
GROTE INDUSTRIES, INC.  
2600 Lanier Drive
Madison, IN 47250-0550
PH: 812/273-2121
FX: 812/265-8440
www.grote.com

Lighting, wiring, mirrors, and safety products for the automotive, recreational vehicle, and heavy duty markets. This includes mirrors for vehicles ranging from cars and light trucks to Class 8 trucks; clearance/marker lamps, including the trucking industry's first red and amber LED models; stop/tail/turn lamps; forward lighting for trucks, cars, vans, RVs, pickups, and sport trucks; wiring systems and wiring harnesses; turn signal switches and flashers; reflective accessories and emergency warning equipment.
Company founded in 1901.
HELLA, INC./ HELLA NORTH AMERICA INC.  
201 Kelly Drive, PO Box 2665
Peachtree City, GA 30269
PH: 770/631-7500 -or- 800/247-5924
FX: 800/631-7575
www.hellausa.com

Hella, Inc., is a manufacturer and marketer of automotive lighting products, accessories, and safety equipment. The Peachtree City, Ga., facility handles the sales, marketing, and distribution of products to the United States and Canada. Hella, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hella North America Holding Inc., Plymouth, Michigan. The others are Hella Electronics Corporation and Hella Lighting Corporation. Hella manufactures products for automotive vehicle manufacturers, heavy duty, original equipment, off-highway construction, and marine markets.
Company founded in 1983.

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INNOVATIVE LIGHTING, INC.  
109 Progressive Avenue
PO Box 366
Roland, IA 50236
PH: (515) 388-1011
FX: (515) 388-5549
www.innovativelight.com

Trailer lighting products including LED tail lights and side markers; interior lights, fluorescent and LED; marine lighting products.
Company founded in 1993.

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JAMES KING & CO., INC.  
19939 SW Cipole Road
Sherwood, OR 97140
PH: 800/824-8635
FX: 503/925-8708
www.jameskingco.com

James King & Company, Inc., manufactures accessories for the heavy duty truck market. The product line includes emergency warning triangles, conspicuity reflectors for tractors and trailers, and document/record holders for trailers.
Company founded in 1947.
NORTH AMERICAN SIGNAL COMPANY  
605 South Wheeling Road
Wheeling, IL 60090-5906
PH: 847/537-8888
FX: 847/537-8895
www.nasig.com

Strobe lights, remote power supplies and strobe heads, light bars, industrial warning lights, sirens and speakers, automotive revolving lights, flashing lights and flashers, back-up alarms, UL lights, and portable and work lights.
Company founded in 1959.
NOVITA TECHNOLOGIES
 
166 Molly Walton Drive
Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075
PH: 615-866-7414
www.novitatech.com

Novitá manufactures and supples flashers for the automotive aftermarket and side object detection systems for the OE market.
Company founded in 1991.
OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.  
275 West Main Street
Hillsboro, NH 03244
PH: 603/464-5533
FX: 603/464-0259
www.sylvania.com

OSRAM SYLVANIA manufactures and markets a wide range of lighting and other products for consumers and corporate customers in the automotive, computer and aerospace markets, as well as many other major worldwide industries. Headquartered in Danvers, Mass., OSRAM SYLVANIA manufacturing capabilities include more than 20 plants distributed throughout North America. OSRAM SYLVANIA’s research and development organization includes eight North American laboratories responsible for research, development and engineering associated with advanced lighting products. These include precision materials and components, lamps, lighting systems, and manufacturing processes. OSRAM SYLVANIA’s equipment development operation designs and builds electronic control systems used in the manufacture of lighting and related products.
Company founded in 1920.
PETERSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY  
4200 East 135th Street
Grandview, MO 64030
PH: 816/765-2000
FX: 816/761-6693
www.pmlights.com

Vehicle lights, wiring harness systems, mirrors, reflectors, antennas, and related safety equipment and accessories.
Company founded in 1945.
PRECO ELECTRONICS  
415 North Maple Grove
Boise, ID 83704
PH: 208/323-1010
FX: 208/323-7105
www.preco.com

Preco is an innovator of solutions that improves safety and efficiency for industrial and commercial users. Products and services include Radar object detection products, reverse alarms, safety lighting, GPS-based asset management solution and contract manufacturing.
Company founded in 1947.
REFLEXITE AMERICAS  
315 South Street
New Britain, CT 06051
PH: 860/223-9297
FX: 860/832-9267
www.reflexiteamericas.com

Reflexite Americas is a manufacturer of retroreflective materials used for vehicle conspicuity, temporary road signs, professional safety garments, marine safety and personal safety and recreation. Reflexite developed and introduced cube corner microprism technology more than 30 years ago.
Company founded in 1970.
SATE-LITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY  
6230 Gross Point Road
Niles, IL 60714
PH: 847/647-1515
FX: 847/647-6719
www.sate-lite.com

Emergency warning triangles, reflex lenses, electroforms, and reflectors for the transportation industry. Company also offers custom injection molding and tool-building capabilities.
Company founded in 1970.
SOUNDOFF SIGNAL
 


3900 Central Parkway
Hudsonville, MI 49426
PH: 616/896-7100
FX: 616/896-1286
www.soundoffsignal.com


SoundOff Signal manufacturers a wide variety of products -- such as rooftop lightbars, sirens, speakers, headlight flashers, strobe lights, power supplies as well as marking and signal lights -- for emergency vehicles, school buses, trucks and trailers.
Company founded in 1971.
STAR HEADLIGHT & LANTERN COMPANY, INC.
 


455 Rochester Street
Avon, NY 14414
PH: 585/226-9500
FH: 525/226-2029
www.star1889.com


Star Headlight & Lantern Company manufactures emergency lighting products for emergency, utility, Department of Transportation and police vehicles.
Company founded in 1889.
SUPERIOR SIGNALS, INC.  


15785 South Keeler Terrace
Olathe, KS 66062
PH: 913-780-1440
FX: 913-780-1427
www.superiorsignals.com


Superior Signals, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of vehicle safety lighting and traffic control products for heavy duty, highway, commercial, construction, utility and emergency vehicles.
Company founded in 1990.
TRIPLEX MANUFACTURING COMPANY  
2700 West 50th Street
Chicago, IL 60632
PH: 773/925-4700
FX: 773/925-3672
www.glo-brite.com

Lighting products for light duty, heavy duty, and recreational vehicles.
Company founded in 1949.
TRUCK-LITE COMPANY,INC.
Wholly Owned by Penske Corporation.
 
310 East Elmwood Avenue
Falconer, NY 14733
PH: 716/665-6214
FX: 716/665-6403
www.truck-lite.com

Manufacturers of vehicular safety lighting and systems.
Company founded in 1956.

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VEHICLE SAFETY MANUFACTURING  
408 Central Avenue
Newark, NJ 07107
PH: 973-643-3000
FX: 973-643-2167
www.vehiclesafetymfg.com

Manufacturers of HD lighting product sold only to HD distributors and OEM and OEM Service. Manufacturers of turn signal switch lighting and safety devices.


Company founded in 1979.

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TSEI Associate Member Companies

ARKEMA INC.  
2000 Market Street, 27TH FLOOR
Philadelphia, PA 19103
PH: 215/419-7506
FX: 215/419-5511
www.plexiglas.com

Atofina Chemicals is the world's largest supplier of Plexiglas® acrylic sheet and resin used in signaling devices and lighting applications in the transportation industry.

Company founded in 2000
(previously part of Rohm and Haas Company founded in 1909).


CEC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
 
599 Bond Street
Lincolnshire, IL 60069
PH: 847/821-1199
FX: 847/821-1133
www.ceclighting.com

CEC Industries, LTD, is a single-source supplier for light bulb and related electronic, industrial and manufacturing applications.
Company founded in 1959.

CYRO INDUSTRIES
A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Degussa
 

379 Interpace Parkway
Parsippany, New Jersey 07054-0677
PH:973 541 8207
FX: 973 541 8448

www.cyro.com


CYRO Industries is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Degussa Corp. Leaders in innovative specialty acrylic solutions to customers, CYRO manufactures and markets ACRYLITE® acrylic polymers to existing and emerging markets in the Americas.
Company founded in 1976.

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ELGIN MOLDED PLASTICS, INC.  
909 Grace Street
Elgin, IL 60120
PH: 800/548-5483
FX: 847/931-2454
www.elginmolded.com

Custom injection molder specializing in reflex and optic molding of lights and lighting device parts.
Company founded in 1949.
GE LIGHTING  
1975 Noble Road
Cleveland, OH 44112
PH: 216/266-2825
FX: 216/266-2662
www.ge.com

The oldest of GE's 12 strategic businesses, GE Lighting manufactures more than 20,000 lamp products for a wide range of uses. In the automotive industry, GE Automotive Lighting markets to OEMs as well as to the aftermarket. The automotive product offering includes a complete line of sealed beam and component forward lighting systems, instrumentation, warning, emergency, and signal lighting. GE Lighting, the only global lighting manufacturer headquartered in the United States, has 58 locations worldwide. It offers a full range of global automotive products approved for worldwide use.
Company founded in 1892.
TSEI Academic Member Institutions

NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY  
2600 North Military Trail
Devoss-Cook Academic Building
West Palm Beach, FL 33409
PH: 561/478-5584
FX: 561/681-7940
www.northwood.edu

Northwood University is a private, accredited university specializing in managerial and entrepreneurial education offering two and four year degrees in a variety of enterprise fields. Northwood University offers Executive, Full-Time and Managerial MBA programs. The university emphasizes the importance of free enterprise and is dedicated to the preservation of the free market and the important relationship between business and the arts.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION
RESEARCH INSTITUTE

(UMTRI)
 
2901 Baxter Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2150
PH: 734/936-1089
FX: 734/764-1221
www.umich.edu/~industry

UMTRI is a multidisciplinary research institute. The focus of research at the Human Factors Division is on visibility and lighting in road transportation.
TSEI Affiliate Trade Press Members

COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL
Randall Publishing Company
 
3200 Rice Mine Road NE
Tuscaloosa, AL 35406
PH: 800/633-5935
FX: 205/750-8070
www.ccjmagazine.com

Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) provides business and equipment solutions to owners and commercial fleets. Through numerous revolution in business practices, equipment technology and information management, CCJ has been there to sort out what works and what does not.

Each month, CCJ delivers truck companies, private carriers and anyone who operates or maintains fleets complete solutions: Vital information in areas of business management, equipment/maintenance and information technology.

Throughout the year, CCJ produces several special issues and projects that subscribers can't find anywhere else. Many of these programs have been CCJ exclusives for more than 25 years.


Company founded in 1911.
FLEET OWNER MAGAZINE
PRIMEDIA BUSINESS MAGAZINES & MEDIA
 
11 River Bend Drive South
PO Box 4211
Stamford, CT 06907-0211
PH: 203/358-4201
FX: 203/358-5831
www.fleetowner.com

Magazines, directories, video products, research products, and on-line information for commercial truck-fleet managers.
Company founded in 1928.
HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING
NEWPORT COMMUNICATIONS: a Division of HIC Corporation
 

412 North Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
PH:949/225-7912
FX: 949/499-1182
www.www.truckinginfo.com.com


Heavy Duty Trucking is a monthly magazine for the equipment management executives of the nation's private, for-hire and leasing fleets. Its sister publication, Truck Sales and Leasing, is a bimonthly magazine serving the information needs of top management of North America's leading fleets, dealers, and leasing companies.
Company founded in 1927.