Gear Motions, Inc.
1750 Milton Avenue
Syracuse NY, 13209
Phone: (315) 488-0100 ext. 2237
Fax: (315) 488-0196
Contact: Ron Wright
Email: nixonsales@gearmotions.com
Website: www.gearmotions.com
In the late 60's Rawling Gear was acquired by Samuel T. Haines. The company grew, renovated and served a local New England market, enlarged its facility and began to look for new opportunities.
In 1973, Samuel R. Haines joined the firm with a business plan for purchasing "Turn Around" specialty gear shops and "Gear Motions" was incorporated. The vision was to develop a regional network of companies whose unique specialties could be leveraged to better service customers' wide ranging needs. The larger organization would be able to bring the management, marketing and financial strengths of size, while maintaining the unique service aspects of the smaller regional shops.
Oliver Gear, in Buffalo, NY, was the first acquisition in 1973. This acquisition added large diameter gearing, coarse pitch rack, and tripled the size of the company.
Nixon Gear was purchased out of bankruptcy in 1978. This acquisition added precision ground gearing and moderate OEM volumes to the newly formed corporate package, as well as substantially enlarging the sales territory into the Midwest and mid-Atlantic states.
Gear Motions began its Sales and Marketing activities in earnest at about this time, developing a national sales force providing coverage from Texas east to the Atlantic. In the early 80's, The Plastic Gearing Services Division was created providing design and development of high strength plastics gearing for the burgeoning business machine market.
In 1988 the company acquired Gear Supply and Broaching, a California company, but in 1990 Glasnost completely altered the long-term outlook and the company was sold.
Today, Gear Motions is comprised of the original three companies: Rawling, Oliver & Nixon and a stream-lined sales and work force. Sales have grown from under $1mm in 1973 to nearly $12mm thirty years later in 2003.
