Beckwood Services provides contract manufacturing services. It makes electrical controls and electromechanical assemblies for analytical instruments, communications equipment, electrical equipment, life sciences equipment, machine tools, medical equipment, military and aerospace equipment, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The company was founded in 1990 by former employees of MODICON, a developer of programmable logic controllers, and originally provided manufacturing services for that company. Beckwood Services has suppliers and subcontractors throughout Europe and the US.