Gleason Corporation

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Gleason Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1865
Seat Rochester , New York , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Number of employees 2600
Branch Machine tool manufacturing
Website www.gleason.com/de

Gleason plant in Rochester

The Gleason Corporation is an American machine tool manufacturer . Gleason produces gear machines as well as gear measurement systems and injection molding tools for the manufacture of plastic gears.

history

In 1865, William Gleason founded a machine factory in Rochester , New York, United States . Nine years later, in 1874, Gleason launched its first bevel gear planer. The first overseas office was established in Plymouth in 1959 .

The Gleason works were among the pioneers in transmission development, particularly in the first half of the 20th century. One of Gleason's most important and well-known employees at the time was Ernest Wildhaber, a Swiss emigrant who was employed as head of the research department and technology consultant. Among other things, Wildhaber developed the hypoid drive and the Wildhaber-Novikov gearing .

In Germany, Gleason has three production sites in Munich , Ludwigsburg and Eisenbach . These were integrated into the group after the takeover of Hurth Getriebe und Zahnräder from Munich (1995), Pfauter from Ludwigsburg (1997) and IMS Koepfer Cutting Tools from Eisenbach (2014).

The Gleason Corporation was listed until 1999. In December 1999 the company was taken over by the management and the private equity investor Vestar Capital Partners and then taken off the stock exchange.

See also

Web links

Commons : Gleason Corporation  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gleason: About Gleason , accessed May 31, 2020
  2. ↑ Gleason: The Gleason Works, Rochester NY, USA / This is Our Story , accessed May 31, 2020
  3. ↑ Google Patents: U.S. Patent US1748813A , accessed May 31, 2020
  4. ↑ gearsolutions.com: Why are Today's Hypoids the Perfect Crossed-Axes Gear Pairs? , accessed on May 31, 2020
  5. ↑ Stephen P. Radzevich: Advances in Gear Design and Manufacture , p. 475 f. CRC Press, Boca Raton, ISBN 978-1-138-48473-3
  6. ↑ Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss: The development of gear technology: tooth shapes and load capacity calculation , p. 248 f. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-92907-6
  7. ↑ Gleason: Gleason-Hurth Tooling GmbH, Munich / This is Our Story , accessed on May 31, 2020
  8. ↑ Gleason: Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Ludwigsburg / This is Our Story , accessed on May 31, 2020
  9. ↑ Gleason: Gleason Cutting Tools GmbH, Eisenbach / This is Our Story , accessed on May 31, 2020
  10. ↑ industrieanzeiger.industrie.de: Gleason-Pfauter: 100 Years in Germany , accessed on May 31, 2020
  11. ↑ industrieanzeiger.industrie.de: Gleason taken private in first Vestar IV Deal , accessed on May 31, 2020