Since 1943, Gemco Manufacturing Co. has manufactured custom precision parts like electrical connectors, spring clips, and terminals, all produced from high quality tools that continue to be designed and built in-house. The firm’s progressive dies and fourslide tooling, built to exacting standards, turn out parts for the automotive, medical, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries. They’re also used to manufacture parts for hardware, power tools, and residential and commercial lighting, among other applications.To get more news about lighting accessories, you can visit tenral.com official website.

In 1943, Gemco was stamping parts like flat springs, contacts, switch leafs, and connectors at its Plantsville, Connecticut factory. Those parts were used in the manufacture of children’s toys and games, toasters, thermostats, and a wide variety of products beyond that. At that time, Gemco was primarily a fourslide manufacturer, with power presses and secondary operations often used to complete some of the more complex components. In 1988, the company added production presses to its manufacturing processes and, in 1994, in-house Wire EDM capabilities. The addition of Wire EDM technology provided Gemco with the ability to produce higher-precision fourslide and progressive die tooling.
Today, tools and technology such as Solid Works and upgrades to the Wire EDM process all play a part in the design and manufacture of customers’ tooling.

“We’re a third-generation progressive die, fourslide, metal stamping and wire forming firm with 54 slides and 12 power presses,” said Mark DiVenere, company president, in an interview at Gemco’s plant in Southington, Connecticut.

These days, the modern 40,000-square-foot Southington plant houses the talented personnel and machinery that produce terminals, terminal blades, flat springs, connectors, spring clips, heat sinks, surgical tray hardware, and power busbars. In addition to these custom stampings and wire forms, Gemco produces components that include features such as tapped holes, inserted contacts and rivets, as well as reel-to-reel applications where terminals are produced on continuous bandoliers for customers that incorporate automation in their manufacturing processes.

“Gemco will always offer our input and our experience throughout the tool design and build process, but we are at our strongest when we are involved with the initial development of the component,” said DiVenere. “We are sometimes able to point out areas of concerns, along with potential cost saving opportunities.”

Mark DiVenere is the grandson of Dominic DiVenere, a co-founder of Gemco with four other partners who started the company in 1943 while working full-time jobs with other manufacturing firms. Over the years, the other founding partners left the company, and Dominic DiVenere assumed full ownership in the late 1970s. Dominic, then chairman, passed away in 2000. His son, Peter, who began his employment at Gemco in 1960, led the company as president from 1986 until his passing in 2005. Mark, who began working at the company in 1986, took the reins from Peter.