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Historical Timeline

Since 1973, Wintek has empowered state-of-the-art connectivity and communication for families, businesses, schools and farms. 

1973

Paul Wintz founds Wintek. The company provides hardware, software and services spanning a spectrum of microprocessor applications.

1978

Technology titans, manufacturing giants and renowned research institutes are using Wintek products, including DuPont, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Purdue University and Standard Oil.

1981

More than 10,000 Wintek circuit boards are in use around the nation and the world.

1982

Stephen Belter buys Wintek from Paul Wintz and becomes president.

1983

Wintek introduces smARTWORK and becomes the nation’s first company to offer a printed circuit-board layout for computer-aided design (CAD) programs on IBM personal computers.

1984

Sales reach $1.3 million — which triples Wintek’s business in just one year.

1985

Wintek remodels its South Street office, expanding to a 6,000-square-foot facility to increase R&D and diversify its CAD programs.

1997

Wintek headquarters move to 6th Street in Lafayette, where offices remain today.

1998

Wintek offers DSL internet connections using localized GTE infrastructure — eventually connecting several hundred business and residential customers throughout the community.

2008

Belter successfully pitches Tippecanoe School Corporation (TSC) and city / county agencies on fiber-internet connections.

2009

Belter retires as president of Wintek after 27 years at the helm and transfers day-to-day operations to vice presidents Travis Bailey and Oliver Beers.

2010

Bailey and Beers buy Wintek — which tests its first residential fiber-to-the-home project in the Klondike area near 400 West.

2015

Wintek begins engineering on a 7,200-square-foot, state-of-the-art data center on the south side of Lafayette.

2016

Ribbons are cut on the Wintek data center, which serves business customers with colocation services and world-class data support.

2019

Tipmont formally completes, and announces, its purchase of Wintek.

2023

Wintek celebrates its 50th anniversary of bringing transformative technology to greater Lafayette businesses and homes. Wintek 50th Gala in Lafayette Indiana

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