B & O Electric Company

Company Overview

Clyde Ognio and Marion Bennett started B and O Electric Company in 1974. Initially, the company focused on projects for churches and school expansions. During the late 1970s, Marion Bennett took a job at General Motors, which resulted in him leaving the company. The company was officially incorporated as B and O Electric Company Inc. in Georgia on March 22, 1984. With our growth, we found ourselves more drawn to industrial work than the projects we had undertaken before. Equipped with the right knowledge and personnel, we shifted our focus and quickly started handling controls for food plants. Our control projects have included systems for dry material storage, conveying, dough thickness, packaging, and conveyor management, among others. To achieve these systems, we employed tools such as programmable logic controllers, variable frequency drives, and soft starters.