Carlton Industries

What Carlton Industries does

Carlton Industries Corporation (CIC) is a privately held, veteran-owned Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company founded in 1994 by Bradford Carlton and headquartered in a 26,000 square-foot facility in Hamden, Connecticut. The company provides PCB Assembly, Box Build Assembly, Cable & Harness Assembly, Quality Control & Testing, and Inventory Management & Logistics to B2B customers across six regulated verticals: Industrial, Instrumentation, Energy, Communications, Aerospace, and Medical. Manufacturing is fully consolidated at the Hamden site, with no disclosed additional locations. Average customer longevity exceeds 15 years, indicating deep integration into customer supply chains.

The firm's manufacturing stack includes Surface Mount Technology (SMT), Plated Through Hole (PTH), and mixed technology configurations executed on Mycronic MY300 pick-and-place equipment, with MIRTEC 3D Automated Optical Inspection, X-ray validation, In-Circuit Testing (ICT), and Functional Testing (FT) performed in-house. Carlton reports a 98.5% first-pass yield goal and 100% inspection across assemblies. It maintains a four-certification compliance posture — ISO 9001:2015, AS 9100D, ISO 13485:2016, and ITAR registration — qualifying it for safety-critical aerospace, medical device, and defense electronics manufacturing. The production profile is explicitly high-mix, high-complexity, low-to-mid volume, a positioning that sits between prototyping shops and tier-1 high-volume EMS providers.

Carlton Industries operates a sales-led go-to-market through VP of Sales & Marketing Ken Maduri (25+ years industry experience), supported by Design-2-Part trade show attendance in Connecticut and Massachusetts and a self-serve Request-for-Quote form on cicems.com. Pricing is quote-based, varies by service type, volume, and turnkey-versus-consignment material sourcing, and is structured as multi-year contracts. The company reports average employee retention of 15 years, with named leadership tenures of 20+ years (CEO & VP Operations Weston See) and 28 years (Manufacturing Engineer Linda Skowronek). Carlton is privately held with no disclosed institutional capital, parent company, M&A activity, or external funding rounds, and founder Bradford Carlton remains active as President.

Name

Carlton Industries

Legal name

Carlton Industries Corporation

Website

https://cicems.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Carlton Industries Corporation is a veteran-owned Electronics Manufacturing Services company founded in 1994, providing PCB assembly, box build, cable/harness assembly, testing, and inventory management to B2B customers across Industrial, Instrumentation, Energy, Communications, Aerospace, and Medical industries from its Hamden, CT facility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Manufacturing Services

NAICS

Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing (334418), Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Electrical Industrial Apparatus (3620), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Process Control & Automation Electronics Manufacturing Services (PLCs, I/O, DCS/SCADA hardware) (IMAGAGAK)

Keywords

• Electronic manufacturing services
• PCB assembly
• Box build assembly
• Cable harness assembly
• Contract manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Hamden

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PCB Assembly Services: Surface mount technology, through hole assembly, and mixed technology configurations for rigid, flex, and rigid-flex circuit boards. Supports prototypes through production volumes.
2. Box Build Assembly: Complete electromechanical integration including enclosure fabrication, sub-assembly routing, final product packaging, circuit board installation, internal cabling, and power supply integration.
3. Cable & Harness Assembly: Custom cable and wire harness assembly from simple point-to-point to complex multi-branch configurations with specialized tooling for precision crimping and secure terminations.
4. Inventory Management & Logistics: Direct fulfillment, Kanban stocking programs, consignment services, on-site warehouse management, kitting, staging, shipping, cross-docking, and just-in-time delivery services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Carlton Industries Corporation is a US-based Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider that builds to print for OEM customers, offering printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, box build assembly, cable and harness assembly, full quality control and electrical testing, and inventory management and logistics services. Operations run from a 26,000 square foot facility in Hamden, Connecticut, and are qualified under ISO 9001:2015, AS 9100D, and ISO 13485:2016 with ITAR registration.

Product overview

Carlton Industries Corporation (CIC) is a high-mix, high-complexity, low to mid-volume Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company offering an integrated suite of manufacturing services. The core offerings include PCB Assembly (SMT, through-hole, and mixed technology), Box Build Assembly (electromechanical integration), Cable & Harness Assembly, Quality Control & Testing (AOI, ICT, functional testing with 98.5% first-pass yield), and Inventory Management & Logistics (Kanban, JIT, direct fulfillment). All manufacturing is performed in-house at their 26,000 square-foot U.S. facility in Hamden, CT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PCB Assembly

Quantifiable outcome

• 98.5% first-pass yield average goal
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Benchmark Electronics: US-headquartered mid-to-large EMS provider offering complex PCBA, box build, engineering and test services to aerospace, medical, industrial and instrumentation customers. Comparable service portfolio but at larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• Sanmina: Global EMS serving aerospace, medical, communications, industrial and energy markets with end-to-end PCBA, box build, cable/harness and integrated logistics services. Direct competitor in target verticals at much larger scale.
• Jabil: Global Fortune 500 EMS provider offering PCB assembly, box build, supply chain and after-market services across virtually every end-market. Highly comparable customer base (including aerospace, medical, industrial) but operates at vastly larger scale with global manufacturing footprint.
• Flex: Global EMS and design services company with extensive PCBA, box build and integrated logistics capabilities serving aerospace, medical, industrial and communications customers. Significantly larger and more geographically diversified than Carlton Industries.

Direct peers

• Mack Technologies: US-based mid-size EMS offering PCBA, box build and system integration for aerospace, medical, industrial and defense customers. Comparable in facility footprint, vertical mix and emphasis on complex, low-to-mid-volume production.
• Vexos: North American EMS with facilities in the US and Canada providing PCBA, box build, cable/harness and supply chain services for medical, industrial, aerospace and communications markets. Comparable size and end-market exposure.
• Z-AXIS: Upstate New York-based EMS specializing in high-mix, low-to-mid-volume PCB assembly, box build and prototyping for industrial, medical and instrumentation customers. Strong match in geography, production model and customer profile.
• Kimball Electronics: US-based, mid-size EMS company providing PCBA, box build, cable/harness and plastics for medical, industrial, automotive and public safety markets. Closest publicly-listed comparable in size, geographic focus and end-market mix.
• Creation Technologies: North American mid-market EMS with full PCBA, box build, cable/harness and supply chain services for aerospace, medical, industrial and instrumentation customers. Closest mid-market private comparable in service breadth and end-market focus.
• IEC Electronics: Specialty US EMS provider focused on high-complexity, low-to-mid-volume PCBA, cable/harness and box build for aerospace, defense and medical markets. Highly comparable in regulatory certifications, customer profile and production model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/carlton-industries-corporation

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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