OUR ROOTS. OUR HISTORY. WHO WE ARE.

• 1963

  On July 1, 1963, Ted Bailey and Dick Robinson incorporated Sauna Inc. as co-founders and owners. We manufactured our own sauna rooms at our Bellevue, WA facility and acquired the distribution rights to the Finnish Metos brand of sauna heaters.

• 1977

  Our corporate name changed to Amerec and the company was divided into two divisions – exercise & leisure and sauna & steam. The former as the distributor of Tunturi excercise equipment and the latter as distributor of sauna equipment.

• 1979

  This is the year in which we introduced steam generators bearing the Amerec name. Local production and sticking to our own ideas and quality mindset, our steam has set the standard of steam generation.

• 1983

  Marking the 20-year anniversary as a company, we dropped our distribution rights to the Metos sauna heaters and started production of our own sauna heaters at our Bellevue, WA facility.

• 1988

  US Steam and Sauna industry's first digital control introduce by Amerec.

• 1991

  Soft Steam featured on the AK models provided the most accurate temperature in the market.

• 1998

  At 35 years young, Amerec was acquired by Saunatec Inc. Our steam business remains in Washington State while sauna and heater production is moved to Minnesota and Finland respectively.

• 1999

  Introduction of the highest quality Signature Designer Sauna Rooms in the plumning industry.

• 2000

  Amerec is the first US steam company to introduce modular steam rooms imported from Germany.

• 2001

  Our smallest design of steam generators creates its own market - Vapormist models.

• 2002

  The first steam company to expand its heat bathing products by offering infrared sauna.

• 2003

  Amerec enters the commercial steam boiler market with the AI models.

• 2008

  In an effort to make the Amerec experience even more pleasurable, the late 1990’s and 2000’s saw rapid development of advanced control panels with the introduction in 2008 of a wireless control and touch screen control panel – both industry firsts.

• 2011

  Touchscreen controls were launched with AT models.

• 2016

  AX models come to market with new advanced A6 & A3 controls systems and amerecConnect app.

• Now

  Amerec is now part of TyloHelo World Group which is the largest sauna/steam company in the world and is currently selling into 43 countries. The factories are located in Finland and Sweden, with US factories located in Minnesota and Washington.