Freeland Products Inc.

Freeland Products Inc History

Ed Olschner
Co-founder 1940-1971

Bill Freeland
President 1940-1990

Harry Freeland
President 1990-2002

Joel Freeland
President 2002-

The two young visionaries, Bill Freeland and Ed Olschner in a small New Orleans warehouse, founded Freeland Products, Inc. during 1940. Each had experience in radio and electronics with local radio stations, recognized the opportunity to salvage the discarded used transmitter tubes. They fabricated new filaments and grids, resealed, evacuated and finally with cooperation of broadcast engineers during "off the air hours," they tried the rebuilt tubes. The results of the tests proved successful and evolved into a full time business. With proven ability to rebuild vacuum tubes, the CBS network engaged the two men when O.E.M. manufacturers were principally supporting the military during World War II.

The vision has matured into the new century to a substantially expanded facility producing volumes of tubes on our eight acre plant site, near Covington, Louisiana about thirty-five miles north of our original New Orleans birthplace.

Our rebuilt tube list includes a variety of triodes, tetrodes, short wave and UHF-TV klystrons. With the addition of an onsite transmitter, we can pre-tune klystrons for ease of installation.

Our original commitment to performance quality with customer service and satisfaction remains intact as we enter the 21st Century under the leadership of our new president and third generation, Joel Freeland.

Thank you for visiting our website. We express our gratitude and thanks to our many loyal customers who have encouraged us over the years to do our best. To those of you who have not used our rebuilt tubes, we invite you to try our service. For those who do not use rebuilt tubes, we ask you send us your expired tubes for our purchase consideration.