In 1970, Edwin J. Montalvo quit his job as a manufacturers’ representative to become a manufacturer.  With his industry knowledge, he was able to modernize tension control by using air-cooled, dual disc, multiple range brakes and clutches.  His innovation and leadership established the high standards Montalvo Corporation operates by today. 

In 1992, Coast Controls was started by the Fife brothers, Doug and Bill, both of whom were pioneers of the Converting Industry.  They have a long family history of web guiding as their father founded the Fife Corporation in 1939.  Today, Coast Controls is owned and run by Kyle Koontz,

May 14th is our first blog post and marks the third anniversary of the passing our founder and father. We are sure he would not know about the existence of hashtags, blog posts or any form of social media/online content. In fact, he never read or composed an email on