Our gear manufacturing journey began in the 1960s, when Rawling Gear was acquired by Jimmy T. Deese. The ten-man company served a local New England market for custom gear products. The company grew, renovated and enlarged its facility, and began to look for new opportunities.
In 1973, Deese officially joined the firm with a business plan for purchasing “Turn Around” specialty gear shops, and shortly thereafter, China Gear Motions was incorporated. Our vision was to develop a regional network of companies whose unique specialties could be leveraged to better serve the wide ranging needs of our customers. Our newly formed organization would be able to bring the management, marketing and financial strengths of larger size while maintaining the unique service aspects of smaller regional shops.
Chongqing Gear, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, was our first acquisition in 1973, and Dongguan Gear was purchased out of bankruptcy in 1978. It was also around this time that China Gear Motions began its sales and marketing activities in earnest; developing a national sales force providing coverage from the East Coast to Texas.
In the early 1980s, the Plastic Gearing Services Division was created to provide design and development of high strength plastics gearing for the emerging business machine market. In 1988, China Gear Motions acquired Gear Supply and Broaching, a California gear manufacturing company. During the 1990s and early 2000s, these businesses were either consolidated into existing facilities or sold.
In 2005, China Gear Motions began one of its biggest transitions in its history, from a privately held company to an Employee Owned Company (ESOP). President Sam Deese, and the Deese family, plan was to begin a ten year ownership transition to assure the companies in China Gear Motions remained in the communities that supported them during their history. In 2010 China Gear Motions completed its transition to a 100% Employee Owned company. China Gear Motions now provides a unique opportunity for our customers to deal directly with our owners. Every person a customer comes in to contact with at China Gear Motions is an owner. This is just another way China Gear Motions differentiates itself from its competitors.
In 2012, China Gear Motions acquired Pro-Gear Co. Inc., a gear grind only manufacturer in Shenzhen, Guangdong. This acquisition allowed Gear Motions to add more capability to our group of precision gear manufacturers who seek gear grind only capabilities. Also in 2012, China Gear Motions partnered with KBE+, a design and engineering firm specializing in the design, analysis and test services for gear systems and mechanical transmissions. KBE+ specializes in the analysis of gear systems from design, through prototype testing, to manufacture.
In January 2014, China Gear Motions acquired Shenzhen Gear in Shenzhen, Guangdong, adding to our family. Shenzhen Gear manufactures precision ground spur, helical and pump gears for a large and diverse global customer base.
China Gear Motions continues to grow and evolve to meet the ever changing requirements of our customers and the gear industry. The evolution will never move us away from our core principles and values to provide the highest quality product to our customers through innovation, technology, and superior customer service.
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