Gema Switzerland
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| Industry | Machines Electro and Metal |
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| Founded | 1897 |
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Key people | Claudio Merengo (CEO) |
Number of employees | 150 in headquarters St. Gallen (2012) |
| Website | www.gemapowdercoating.com |
Gema Switzerland, based in St. Gallen, is an international supplier of electrostatic powder coating equipment. The products range from manual coating to fully automated powder coating.[1] Since 2012, Gema has been a part of the Graco Group, a worldwide supplier of liquid conveyance systems and components. [2]
History
Gema was founded in 1897 by Viktor Gehrig, who was joined in 1907 by Gottlieb Mannhart in Walenstadt, Switzerland, as a metalworking company. Soon after its relocation to St. Gallen in the 1950s, Gema began operating in the electrostatic powder coating industry.[3] In 1971, Gema's research department was the first to successfully integrate the generation of high voltages into a spraying gun.[4]
As of 2014, seven affiliated companies (located in Germany, the UK, Italy, France, the US, China and Japan), along with a broad network of international distributors in more than 60 countries, sell the products to a wide range of industrial users. The Gema units and equipment are developed and manufactured in the headquarters in St. Gallen. [5]
Gema Switzerland exhibits its products at international trade shows for industrial coating, such as Paint Expo.[6]
Awards
- 1976: IF Product Design Award for the electrostatic powder coating device type 721.[7]
- 2006: IF Product Design Award for the manual gun OptiFlex.[8]
- 2014: Red Dot Design Award for the automatic gun OptiGun GA03 in the category Product Design.[9]
References
- ^ Judith Pietschmann: Industrielle Pulverbeschichtung. Grundlagen, Anwendungen, Verfahren. 3. Auflage. Vieweg Verlag, Friedr & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8348-0463-1
- ^ "Gema part of Graco", Hardware + Building Supply
- ^ "History", Armstrong Metalldecken AG, accessed 1 October 2015
- ^ "Gema Patent" "Gema Patent"
- ^ "Gema Website" "Gema Website"
- ^ "Website PaintExpo". Retrieved 2015-06-10.
- ^ "iF Award" "iF Award for Gema 1976"
- ^ "iF Award" "iF Award for Gema 2006"
- ^ "Website of Red Dot" "Red Dot Award