Wire Matic Regler AB was founded in 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden. The company’s focus from the beginning was to develop, manufacture and sell pneumatic actuators. The first actuator developed enabled the power to be transferred into movement by use of a wire, hence the name Wirematic. Quite quickly this idea was abandoned in favour of a design whereby the actuator worked by the rack and pinion principle instead. They made a design with the springs built into the actuator’s pistons; the Type 1 was born. This solution gives a compact design which means that actuators with spring return (SR) and double acting (DA) actuators have the same outside dimensions. This compact design was patented. The design was appreciated in the market and sales grew strongly over the whole world.