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Expansion and Modernization

1946–1959

Expanding Manufacturing
Capacities

During the 1950s and 1960s, in
response to skyrocketing demand
in the automotive and defense
industries, The Gleason Works
modernizes and expands its
manufacturing capacity, including
The Gleason Works plant at University Avenue with the
the new foundry in 1956. new power house in the upper right hand corner in 1945.

Continued Innovation Patents The First Gear School

In 1954, The Gleason Works By the 1950s, approximately 176 In 1958, the first “Gear School” takes
Rochester is one of the world’s patents have been granted to the place at Barber-Colman Company in
most modern machine tool plants. company, including Revacycle, Rockford, IL, USA. The Gear School
It occupies 27 acres and has over Curvic Coupling and Coniflex . at today’s Gleason Cutting Tools
®
600,000 square feet of floor space to Corporation will continue to educate
produce the finest equipment for the customers about cylindrical gear
manufacturing of bevel gears, hypoid theory and manufacturing basics
gears, and Curvic Couplings. without interruption until the
present day.

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