Bud Industries
Published on: November 3, 2015 by Blair Haas
It is a well-worn bit of advice to never “mess with a good thing.” For many, when you’ve got a long term great selling product, making adjustments can be a risk, potentially alienating your core customer base. However, we recently saw an opportunity to improve on one of our best selling products and we jumped at the chance. Our AN series of NEMA 4 and 4x die cast boxes has been a great selling line for us for over 15 years. They have a low price point, provide light weight yet strong protection, and are easy to modify to allow for the installation of components such as connectors, switches and displays. There was only one minor inconvenience, the “string” gasket could be a bit time consuming to install.
Bud is very proud to introduce the next generation AN box, designated with a “-A” suffix. Not only does it come with a cut to size, drop into place gasket, but it also meets IP68. This means that it is the first die cast box in the industry to be able to be submerged at more than 1 meter of water for more than an hour. In fact, we tested the product at a depth of 6 feet for more than 24 hours and it passed the stringent UL testing with flying colors. These boxes will be introduced beginning later this month with a complete transition of the Bud inventory by February 1. We are very excited about the new markets that this modification opens up for us and for our customers and we look forward to hearing about many successful applications. As always, check with us or your favorite Bud distributor for more details.