Tesco Controls Incorporated

Based in Sacramento, California since 1972, Tesco Controls, Inc. is a control system integrator and manufacturer for the water/wastewater and traffic industries.
TESCO also offers professional services that include engineering design, technical studies, custom programming, field installation and calibration, technical support, and maintenance.

TESCO began its business by introducing the “Slimline” Pedestal—a simple, innovative means of distributing underground electrical power to a wide variety of municipal applications. The TESCO Pedestal product line provides a cost-effective solution for efficient street lighting, park lighting, irrigation, and battery backup systems (BBS) for traffic signal installations. Over the years, TESCO progressed to include the design and manufacture of programmable logic controllers, process instrumentation, integrated pump control panels, motor control, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA systems) that allow municipal water/wastewater and irrigation districts to monitor and control treatment plants, water distribution systems, and wastewater collection systems.

TESCO has installed over 300 SCADA systems nationwide. They are installed throughout California as well as Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. These systems consist of multiple Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that communicate between central sites and various remote sites over telephone lines, fiber optics, radio links, or dedicated cable television. These redundant, open architecture SCADA software and hardware systems consist of multi-user, multi-tasking, real time graphical-user-interfaces with report capability, designed specifically around the demanding needs of the water/wastewater industry.

To date TESCO's installed base of products and control systems is in excess of $300 million. TESCO employs over 200 employees and has grown to occupy nearly 100,000 square feet of office and manufacturing space.

In 2003, founder Wallace Tessmer sold the company to the dedicated Tesco employees. Today, Tesco Controls is 100% owned by the employees through an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). An ESOP is a federally qualified employee benefit program designed to give employees ownership in the company where they work by giving the employees shares of the company. These shares are held by an ESOP trust and allocated to employees from the profit of the firm.

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