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Located
in Passaic, New Jersey, USA, Geiger Tool & Manufacturing
Company is specializing in machining for electronics,
medical devices, aerospace and general commercial applications,
serving the industry since 1947. Certified to be compliant to the International and Aerospace Standards since 2003
At GEIGER we specialize in Complex jobs and unusual
materials, prototypes and custom designs.
GEIGER Tool carries a variety of proofing presses to
choose from, such as the Geiger Gravure Proofing Presses,
the Geiger Production Press, the Geiger Laboratory Printing
Center and the Geiger Combo Gravure - Flexographic Proofing
Press. For over 30 years,
Geiger has set the industry standard for the Gravure
Proofing Presses.
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It wasn't too long after World War II that William Geiger opened the
doors of Geiger Tool & Manufacturing in Garfield, N. J. Only a few
years later, he found a building in
nearby Passaic, and Geiger Tool
has been there ever since.
Jim Nogrady, the proprietor today,
and his partner Joe Schoremann,
bought out William Geiger in 1973,
and at just about that time, the CNC
revolution had begun. "We started
with manually run machinery, as
everyone did back then, but began
making the move to precision CNC machining in the 70's," said Nogrady.
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Geiger Tool began to grow, so Jim
and Joe purchased the adjacent
building when they had the chance
in 1977, and three years later, further expanded their space, so that
today the company operates within
20,000 square feet.
Today, Geiger Tool has fourteen CNC machines and about 30 others, such as jig mills and engine lathes. Among its clients, Geiger Tool counts Honeywell, even through all the mergers and acquisitions, which they've had as a client - in one company form or another -- since1948. Another client is ITT, which turns to Geiger Tool for the manufacture of components for proprietary precision machining military equipment.
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Spared the Pain
Working more with prototypes and
semi-prototypes, Geiger Tool is a
more highly automated version of
the same job shop William Geiger
started in 1948. "We're not a high
production shop, so we've been
spared some of the business down
turn that others have experienced,"
Nogrady said. "But offshoring will
eventually hurt everybody."
With about 200 customers on its
books - some more active than others - Geiger Tool has held its own
through the economic downturn.
Of course, some business has left
the area. Federal Paper Board in
Saddle Brook, N. J., previously a
consistent client of Geiger Tool's,
closed its doors, and others for
whom the company built machinery, particularly in the food packaging industry, have moved either
south or to the Midwest.
But the company remains busy with
its 19 employees. Among its long
standing customers are paper companies and ink manufacturers in the
U.S. and around the world - yes,
even in China — for whom Geiger
Tool builds proofing presses.
"These are machines that aren't
used for production, but in laboratories," said Nogrady. "Ink manufacturers use them to proof their colors, and paper companies use the
machine to test their paper, so that
the ink doesn't bleed through."
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Special Projects
Likely Geiger Tool's work can be
found in numerous airline jets. Its
components are in the black boxes
of passenger and military aircraft.
And for Honeywell, the company
builds generator components, also
found in most aircraft.
Geiger Tool also builds sputtering
targets for the chip industry. Layers of metal go on a silicon wafer to
build a chip used for different electronic applications. "These are element metals deposited on the wafer," Nogrady said. "It's not the
same as plating; it's disintegrated,
atomized, then - as a vapor - applied on the wafer."
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2005 - Geiger Tool &
Mfg. Co. - All Right Reserved. |
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