John Hover and Peter Davis founded Hover-Davis in 1989. Their electric multi-pitch tape feeders revolutionized the tape feeding industry and helped to establish Hover-Davis as "The Feeder Company".
Hover-Davis Today
As "The Feeder Company", we strive to develop the best possible feeder technology. Our goal is to manufacture superior feeding solutions. We offer feeding solutions for components packaged in tape and/or tray, pre-printed labels and die from wafer. Hover-Davis feeding solutions are compatible with most major SMT platforms, including those from Fuji, Panasonic, Universal Instruments, Siemens, Juki, Samsung and Assembleon.
Current customers include global OEM surface mount equipment manufacturers, and most of the world's leading electronics manufacturers, including Solectron, Celestica, Flextronics, Delphi, Siemens VDO, LG, Foxconn, RFMD, Amkor, and many more.
Our corporate headquarters is a 66,000 square foot manufacturing and engineering facility located in Rochester, NY
To satisfy our customers' evolving needs, we continue to invest in the development of new feeder products and technology, as well as in personnel development and infrastructure. Our innovation initiatives extend beyond engineering and include production and customer support and services.
Drawing talent from the technology rich Rochester, New York community, Hover-Davis has evolved to gain global recognition for its feeder engineering, manufacturing and quality capabilities. Our unique products, engineering and production capabilities continue to draw new OEM and Direct customers to Hover-Davis, "The Feeder Company".