Seattle, Washington is where Amerec's roots are. It has been Amerec's home since its founding days and is part of the reason why Amerec continually create advanced and innovative custom solutions for steam rooms and saunas. Amerec's Scandinavian heritage contributes to sensibility, functionality and clean and simple luxury.
On July 1, 1963, Ted Bailey and Dick Robinson incorporated Sauna Inc. as co-founders and owners. Amerec manufactured its own sauna rooms at the Bellevue, WA facility and acquired the distribution rights to the Finnish Metos brand of sauna heaters.
In 1979, its corporate name was changed to Amerec and the company was divided into two divisions – exercise & leisure and sauna & steam. The former as the distributor of Tunturi exercise equipment and the latter as distributor of sauna equipment.
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.
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.