The Bohning Company was founded in 1946 by Rollin Bohning. He was a research chemist and avid archer who had become dissatisfied with the cements available to bond broadheads to hunting shafts. He developed Ferr-L-Tite adhesive for adhering hardware to wood and aluminum shafts. The product formulation has undergone several changes over the decades, but Ferr-L-Tite is still the industry standard today. Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, Rollin Bohning continued to develop successful solutions for archers, including Doug Easton and Fred Bear, with whom he had become friends. Their collaboration led to the development of Bohning Fletch-Tite Platinum fletching cement, a product so effective that nearly every archer has used it since its inception.In the early 1970s, Rollin Bohning semi-retired from the growing company, and Colby and Martha Johnson became chief administrators. They guided the company throughout the 1970s and most of the 1980s. Larry Griffith became president of the company in 1987 when the Johnsons semi-retired.