Gates Corporation
Gates Corporation
MEETING THE NEEDS OF GLOBAL CUSTOMERS
Gates Corporation is the one of the world's largest manufacturers of automotive and industrial products, systems and components and the largest non-tire rubber manufacturer in North America. The company has sales and manufacturing operations in all of the world's major markets, including North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
Every day, customers around the world rely on Gates products in an almost endless range of applications. Gates hoses transfer a variety of materials, from the finest wines to chemicals, steam and crude oil. The company's industrial belts provide power to all kinds of machines, from rock crushers, copy machines and motorcycles to snowmobiles and machine tools. Car, truck and heavy equipment engines stay cool in the harshest conditions thanks to Gates coolant hose. Gates automotive belts transfer power to engine accessories such as air conditioners, power steering pumps and alternators. And Gates hydraulic hoses and coupling assemblies provide fluid power to coal mining, timber harvesting and construction equipment.
Markets served by Gates include the industrial and automotive original equipment and replacement markets, agriculture, transportation, mining, forestry, construction, marine, aircraft, office equipment, computer, food processing and handling markets, as well as the plumbing and hardware markets.
GLOBAL ORGANIZATION
Gates Corporation is organized into three businesses: Power Transmission, Fluid Power, and Aftermarket. These businesses are responsible for product development, manufacturing, product globalization, and manufacturing capacity and utilization.
The company sells its products directly to automotive and industrial original equipment manufacturers and through a network of 150,000 distributors, jobbers and dealers worldwide.
Gates currently has 13,000 employees in 21 countries around the globe including the Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, CIS (Moscow), Czech Republic, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, India, Mexico, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and the United States.
Gates Corporation World Headquarters is located in Denver, Colorado and employees nearly 580 professional, technical and administrative staff.
TOMKINS PLC
In 1996, Gates became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tomkins plc, ending 85 years of ownership by the Gates family. Tomkins is a world-class global engineering and manufacturing group with market and technical leadership across two global businesses: Industrial and Automotive, and Building Products.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GATES
When Charles Gates, Sr. bought The Colorado Tire and Leather Company in 1911 for $3,500, little did he know his small shop in Denver would evolve into a leading rubber products company. Colorado Tire and Leather made a single product, the Durable Tread, a steel-studded band of leather that motorists fastened to their flimsy car tires to extend their mileage. From this modest beginning The Gates Rubber Company, as it was known then, grew into one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial and automotive belts and hoses, plus a host of related products. In 1917 John Gates, Charles' brother, invented the rubber and fabric V-belt and made automotive history. The belt's success propelled Gates to become the world's largest manufacturer of V-belts, a title it still holds today. In 2003, The Gates Rubber Company became Gates Corporation, the name reflecting its expanding range of brands, product lines and customers.
Gates Corporation
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