Precision Hermetic Technology cuts ribbon on Ogden operation

Precision Hermetic Technology cuts ribbon on Ogden operation

Daniel Schachtel, CEO, president and founder of Precision Hermetic Technology, speaks at a ribbon-cutting facility for the company's new home in Ogden on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Rob Nielsen, Standard-Examiner)

OGDEN — A company that makes small components with a big impact is getting underway with its mission in Ogden.

On Thursday, officials and employees cut the ribbon on Precision Hermetic Technology’s Ogden manufacturing plant in the Business Depot Ogden.

Precision Hermetic Technology founder, President and CEO Daniel Schachtel told the Standard-Examiner that the company started in California in 1989 but is making its way into Utah on a full-time basis.

“We manufacture electrical connectors for very high reliability applications,” he said. “We make parts that go into spacecraft, submarines and everything in between. Most of our customers use us in areas where they need a completely foolproof kind of connector that has really, really bizarre requirements.”

He said that some of these components have extremely demanding standards to live up to.

Precision Hermetic Technology employees and local officials cut the ribbon on Precision Hermetic's new Ogden facility on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Rob Nielsen, Standard-Examiner)

“We do a lot of stuff for high pressure requirements,” he said. “In fact, the highest pressure connector that we make has to withstand 115,000 pounds per square inch pressure. Which is a lot. It’s about four times the yield strength of stainless steel.”

From the defense industry to medicine, Schachtel said the company has clients in a wide range of fields.

“We started making parts of this type of support primarily military applications, a lot of space applications, oil and gas, medical — made parts for implantable medical devices,” he said. “A lot of stuff that goes in the nuclear industries.”

He said that components built by Precision Hermetic Technology have been used in Martian rovers, Blue Origin spacecraft and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.

Schachtel said that Utah is a natural fit for the company.

Interested parties tour part of Precision Hermetic Technology's new facility in Ogden on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. While operations have begun, the full 80,000-square-foot facility is expected to take another year to fully complete. (Rob Nielsen, Standard-Examiner)

“The reason that we moved to Utah was that there’s such a pool of talented people who are all working in very similarly related businesses — businesses which, in fact, are our customers,” he said. “And that’s kind of what precipitated our move up here.”

He said that the Utah operation just received its International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, certification and that operations just got underway in the last couple of weeks — though there’s still work to be done at their new Ogden facility.

“There’s 40% of the building that’s still under construction,” he said. “So it’s going to take us another year to get all of that stuff up and running. But, again, the plan is to exit California as an entity and just have everything under the same roof over here. … This is an 80,000-square-foot building. We have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tons of equipment that are being moved up here. Initially, the last time I moved was 25 years ago, and I moved seven miles, and that took me a month. So, if anything, I underestimated the amount of time it was going to take to get this up and running. And also, when we first occupied this building, it was a call center for Home Depot, so turning it into a production facility was a non-obvious choice.”

Schachtel said despite the deviation from the facility’s last purpose, it still works well for their needs, even if it has created a challenge or two.

“Some of the building created some advantage for us, but it also, at the same time, kind of created some challenges because it was so different than what a regular warehouse would look like,” he said. “But what our plan here is we want to have the tightest possible controls over our environment and our processes, so the fact that it’s a 100% air-conditioned building is perfect for our needs. Because our customers are among the most demanding in the world, and we don’t like to fail them.”

Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Chuck Leonhardt gives pins to the Schachtel family during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Precision Hermetic Technology on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Rob Nielsen, Standard-Examiner)

While the new facility is starting off still under construction, he said he’s happy to get operations going in Ogden.

“I’m so excited about it,” he said. “It’s been climbing up Mount Everest.”

Other local officials are also enthusiastic about Precision Hermetic Technology’s move to Ogden.

During the ribbon cutting ceremony, Ogden City Chief Administrative Officer Taylor Nielsen said the company is a great fit for the city.

“When you have stuff that’s involved in what seems like a myriad of things from spacecraft to military stuff to medical equipment, it matched in my mind something that kept coming back, where good enough isn’t good enough,” he said. “Your guys’ failure is not an option, and that’s a great mindset that matches, especially with what we’re trying to do here at the city, where we expect and always want to see great things as they come through.”