established in 1963, compakomatic has long been recognized as a manufacturer of high quality precision manufactured equipment for use with the fusion welding processes (mig, tig and plasma). in the early days, compakomatic built its reputation around solving high production and extremely demanding applications by designing and manufacturing compact automatic mig (gmaw) welding components for use in the automotive market. in an industry where resistance welding was king, the compakomatic automatic wire drive units, welding guns and motion units allowed tooling designers and engineers to utilize the mig welding process in area that previously were not accessible because of the bulky physical size of the then "state of the art" equipment available. the name compakomatic was originally chosen to represent this new style of "compact automatic" equipment.