History

Barry Controls designs, develops and manufactures shock and vibration isolation systems for aerospace, defense and industrial markets. The Company was established in 1943 to provide the U.S. Navy with vibration isolators to protect shipboard machinery from failing after exposure to ballistic shock and operational vibration. The Barry Mount cupmount was the first mount developed and is still widely used in defense systems. Barry Controls later began to target other industrial and aerospace markets for its shock and vibration isolation systems. Today Barry Controls serves a wide variety of customers worldwide. In addition, Barry Controls manufactures and markets a line of spring-loaded devices and specialty hardware under the Vlier brand name.

In June of 2000 Barry Controls was acquired by the Hutchinson Group thereby creating the largest engineering and manufacturing company in the world developing vibration, shock and structure-borne noise control products for aerospace, defense and industrial markets.