Gerber Scientific

Gerber Scientific Inc. (NYSE: GRB), located in Tolland, Connecticut, is the parent of companies which provide end-to-end customer solutions to the world's sign making and specialty graphics, ophthalmic lens processing, and apparel and flexible materials industries. They also supply purpose-built software to integrate with their hardware systems. The original company, called Gerber Scientific Instrument Co., was founded in 1948 by Joseph Gerber.

Companies include:

• Gerber Scientific Products which builds Sign Making and specialty graphics systems;
• Spandex which supplies sign making and digital print hardware, software and materials;
• Gerber Technology which builds and supplies apparel and flexible material systems; and
• Gerber Coburn which builds and supplies Ophthalmic Lens processing systems. As of January 1, 2011 Gerber Coburn had become Coburn Technologies, a stand alone entity.
• Gerber Systems Corporation, which builds systems for the PCB and graphic arts industries. It was sold to Barco NV in 1998. The PCB operation is now part of Ucamco.

External links

• History of Gerber Scientific
• Gerber Scientific Instrument Company Records, 1911-1998 (Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History)
• http://www.answers.com/topic/gerber-scientific-inc Hoover's profile of Gerber Scientific; company history
• http://sirismm.si.edu/archivcenter/findingaids/AC0929.pdf Gerber Scientific collection at Smithsonian
• http://museum.mit.edu/150/86 Has several links (including history of MIT Servo Lab)