HTE Technologies was founded in 1958 as a tool and rubber supply distributor for the St. Louis manufacturing market. The firm is an engineering distributor of leading manufacturers in industrial, and motion and control products market. It offers air cylinders and dryers, automated blast systems, ball valves, blast rooms, brass fittings, battery tools, compressors, electric hoists, fluid connectors, extractor dryer, hydraulic gauges and linear slides. It also offers metering systems, silencers, nitrogen gas generators, operator interfaces, plastic fittings and tubing, pumping systems, rotary actuators, suction cups, storage tanks, swivels, transducers, vacuum pumps, and vision and bar-coding systems. The firm represents products from manufacturers, including Airtek, Clemco, Daman Manifolds, Delta Cooling Tower, Kobelco, Mitsubishi, Manzel, Schmalz and pro Tech. HTE Technologies is headquartered in St. Louis and has locations in Decatur, Ill., and O'Fallon, Mo.