Company History

Designed and manufactured 1000A loco controllers.

Designed and manufactured Mattron wheelchair controllers which were successfully exported.

First 40A wheelchair controller
First 600A industrial electric vehicle controller.

Production Ranger wheelchair controllers to Invacare USA.

First silent `Arrow' wheelchair controller to Invacare USA.

Developed D50 economy wheelchair controller – well accepted in Europe.

Developed 100A scooter controller.

DM40 micro wheelchair controller in production which was rapidly accepted world wide.
DM60 micro wheelchair controller in production.

DM25 wheelchair controllers to DSA

MKII DM60, 40 and 25 in production

DS100 micro scooter controller in production.

Radio frequency immune controllers in production
Dynamic Controls Manufacturing Invacare electronic product including oxygen concentrator controls.

DX modular wheelchair controllers launched
Low cost integral DL controller launched

Servo and lighting module added to DX family
Low cost DS70 added to family

Sales of geared motors starts

Dynamic Controls battery charger launched

Low cost DS2000 scooter controller launched as Rhino.
Integral DX controller family launched as Commando.

Launch of the Shark, low cost modular wheelchair controller

Launch of Gearless Brushless version of DX-PM

Launch of Shark Multi-button Remote
Launch of DX-G90 Remote based on UCM MKII
Rhino extended to 160A

DX GB released
R-Series small scooter controller released
G90 and G91 Remotes for DX released
Lynx (A-Series) integral wheelchair controller released

DX2 family of controllers released including colour display remote.

DSL105 Contactless Head Controls released into European market

Launch of iPortal, integrating iPhone and iPod touch with a power wheelchair

Launch of the Rhino2 range of scooter controllers

Inception as Matthews Associates by Norman Matthews.

Commenced manufacture of electronic battery locomotive controls.

Set up a sales and service division in the USA.

Commenced development of micro based wheelchair controller.

Dynamic Controls open UK office.

TUV approval of D50 wheelchair controller

TUV approval of DM wheelchair controller
Registered for ISO9002 quality management

Registered for ISO9001 quality management

Dynamic Controls aquired by Invacare Corporation

Won 3 regional and one national business award

DX system gets FDA 510K approval

Production of products designed by Invacare transferred to Dynamic Controls.

Dynamic Controls products CE compliant

Significant contract customers – Trimble, Navman

Dynamic Controls becomes the biggest electronics contract manufacturer in Australasia

Accreditation to ISO13485

Respiratory products move to China for manufacture.

Suzhou factory opened.

Partnership with Adaptive Switch Laboratories established
Silver medal in the Designers Institute of New Zealand (DINZ) 2009 BeST design awards
Project Management Institute, Project of the year Award finalist.
Industrial Research Limited (IRL) “What’s your problem New Zealand” competition finalist.

7.1 Magnitude earthquake strikes Canterbury region

Two 6.3 Magnitude earthquakes strike Christchurch City