High-Tech Company Moving From California To Post Falls

TS Products, a small California firm which makes high-tech motorized micrometers, will relocate to Post Falls by Oct. 1.

The Burbank, Calif., company, which now employs seven, said it will move to the McGuire Business Park in Post Falls after also considering sites in Seattle, Oregon, and Nevada.

TS Products is working on the second-largest telescope in the world, the Hobby-Eberly telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas.

Company executives said they chose Post Falls because of low business taxes, area scenery and local interest in the business.

“Bob Potter of Jobs Plus was 50 percent of it,” said Brian Thomasson, a company mechanical engineer.

The 18-year-old company will move three people from its Southern California location, and is interviewing for about seven more positions, said President Jim Thomasson.

TS Products’ gross sales last year were $800,000, Thomasson said. The company makes 54 different types of high-tech precision movement devices used in telescopes, medical equipment and telecommunications equipment.

It has produced equipment for Texas Instruments, AT&T and a number of universities across the U.S., company officials said.

TS Products has been looking at the area since 1995, said Bob Potter, president of Jobs Plus.

The company will create high-end jobs, like computer programmers and mechanical engineers, Potter said.

“They’re pretty good jobs, but there are not a lot of them,” he said.

, DataTimes