Automation
We can help you select and design automation technology solutions and create connected enterprises. Our automation specialists focus on 12 areas of industrial automation.
DataComm
From basic network construction and configuration, videoconferencing to 4K digital signage, we have the data communication products to make it happen.
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Electrical
We keep a massive inventory across our 25 branches to get you the electric supply products you need as quickly as possible with easy order entry and on-time delivery.
Lighting
Our team of dedicated lighting specialists serve electricians and companies with lighting supplies for new construction, existing building projects, and retrofits.
Power Transmission
Our power transmission solutions help you save energy through efficient gearing, using correct motors, reducing storeroom costs, and faster failure diagnostics.
Safety and Consumables
Keeping the supplies used in your day to day operations readily available is essential. We stock personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning supplies, tools, and more.
Automation
We can help you select and design automation technology solutions and create connected enterprises. Our automation specialists focus on 12 areas of industrial automation.
DataComm
From basic network construction and configuration, videoconferencing to 4K digital signage, we have the data communication products to make it happen.
data communication products
Electrical
We keep a massive inventory across our 25 branches to get you the electric supply products you need as quickly as possible with easy order entry and on-time delivery.
Lighting
Our team of dedicated lighting specialists serve electricians and companies with lighting supplies for new construction, existing building projects, and retrofits.
Power Transmission
Our power transmission solutions help you save energy through efficient gearing, using correct motors, reducing storeroom costs, and faster failure diagnostics.
Safety and Consumables
Keeping the supplies used in your day to day operations readily available is essential. We stock personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning supplies, tools, and more.
Automation
We can help you select and design automation technology solutions and create connected enterprises. Our automation specialists focus on 12 areas of industrial automation.
DataComm
From basic network construction and configuration, videoconferencing to 4K digital signage, we have the data communication products to make it happen.
data communication products
Electrical
We keep a massive inventory across our 25 branches to get you the electric supply products you need as quickly as possible with easy order entry and on-time delivery.
Lighting
Our team of dedicated lighting specialists serve electricians and companies with lighting supplies for new construction, existing building projects, and retrofits.
Power Transmission
Our power transmission solutions help you save energy through efficient gearing, using correct motors, reducing storeroom costs, and faster failure diagnostics.
Safety and Consumables
Keeping the supplies used in your day to day operations readily available is essential. We stock personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning supplies, tools, and more.

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Discover the advantages of on-machine solutions in six easy steps
Discover the advantages of on-machine solutions in six easy steps
Are you looking for ways to meet changing customer demands, reduce production time, save space on your plant floor and more? You should think outside the cabinet and discover the advantages of On-Machine™ solutions. While the hardware can be more expensive than a traditional in-cabinet solution, the total system savings, simplicity and flexibility quickly make up for it. Need more convincing? Follow these steps to discover the advantages of On-Machine solutions.
How to Do a One-Person Circuit Wire Pull with Southwire's Wire Pulling Tools
How to Do a One-Person Circuit Wire Pull with Southwire's Wire Pulling Tools
Using your own strength for your circuit wire pulls is possible, but how is your body going to feel at the end of a full day? How about the end of the week? It also takes multiple people, so you’re using up hands that could be doing something more productive on your jobsite. To help you save energy and get more done, here’s how to do a one-person circuit wire pull with Southwire’s wire pulling tools.
Meet the former Van Meter Employee-Owner spreading agape love
Meet the former Van Meter Employee-Owner spreading agape love
Hubble worked for Van Meter from 1997 until he retired in 2018. For him and his wife, Patricia, their investment of time and money into the Agape Shoppe was possible because of Van Meter’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
Choose The Right Type Of Industrial Robot For Your Operation
Choose The Right Type Of Industrial Robot For Your Operation
Industrial robots solve challenges for manufacturers—like productivity, safety, maintenance and workforce challenges—and work well for jobs that are dull, dirty, dangerous and/or difficult. But how do you know what type of robot is right for your application? What tasks can each type of industrial robots perform? To help you find your perfect match, let’s get to know some types of industrial robots and how you can deploy them to boost productivity.
Get a grip on your next wire pull
Get a grip on your next wire pull
Do you have a grip on the different pulling grip options you can use for your wire pulls? When you need additional pulling force, cable grips can attach cables to your wire tugger and allow you to easily pull wire through conduit. Watch Adam walk you through your cable pulling grip options, or compare the pros and cons of each below.
Industrial Robotics: Operate At Your Optimum
Industrial Robotics: Operate At Your Optimum
Today you face more operational challenges than ever before. You are under pressure to increase productivity, offer production flexibility and customization, and maintain safe, secure machines, all while navigating difficult workforce dynamics. You can count on Van Meter’s comprehensive robotic solution and team of technical experts to help you operate at your optimum.
Security challenges, trends and methods that don’t work
Security challenges, trends and methods that don’t work
Cybersecurity is a bigger challenge than ever for information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) networks and many companies aren’t using the right approaches to solve the problem.
Four ways driving at van meter helps you get more from life
Four ways driving at van meter helps you get more from life
“Get a life,” is usually used as an insult, but for delivery drivers at Van Meter, it’s an opportunity. For many truck drivers, long, inconsistent hours and long-distance travel make having a healthy work-life balance impossible. Van Meter has delivery drivers who know that struggle from previous jobs, but their time at Van Meter has been a different story. To find out why, check out these four ways Van Meter allows its drivers to get a life.
Van Meter Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer
Van Meter Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer
Van Meter Inc., a leading distributor of electrical, automation and mechanical solutions, announced today that Scott Bjerketvedt, an experienced finance and accounting executive, has joined the company’s leadership team as Chief Financial Officer.

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