Triple/S Dynamics traces its roots back to 1888, when Henry Sutton teamed up with Walter and Edwin Steele to pioneer the use of airflow, vibration, and electric fields for separating dissimilar materials. They established Sutton, Steele & Steele, one of the first manufacturing companies incorporated in the small, but growing city of Dallas, Texas. By the turn of the century, the company invented the first gravity separators for improving mineral and agricultural products through the separation of off-density materials. In 1925, the firm was recognized by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia with the John Price Wetherill medal for Discovery, Invention or Development in the Physical Sciences.
In 1959, Sutton, Steele & Steele acquired Overstrom & Sons, a machinery engineering firm founded by Professor Gustave Overstrom which specialized in screening and conveying equipment for the mining and aggregate industries.
Honoring the inventive founders, the name Triple/S Dynamics was adopted in 1968 to underscore the company's continued commitment to the development of dynamic vibratory equipment for the processing industries.