Profile: Venango Machine Company is a machining company specializing in engineered heated platens, hydraulic press platens, and compression molding platens used in the composite, rubber, plywood, automotive, aerospace, & chemical industries. Electric platens offer compression molders an alternative heating method that allows for faster heat up and recovery times and higher temperatures, as opposed to traditional heating methods. We manufacture steam and thermal fluid platens, as well as electrically heated, water-cooled platens (Type EWC).