We focus on extending the lifespan of equipment, enhancing operational safety, and minimizing downtime in industrial environments. Our market leadership is supported by our ability to provide highly durable, customizable solutions, an extensive product portfolio, and a strong reputation for quality in industries such as manufacturing, automation, energy, medical, and transportation. We continue to build our customer experience by improving service differentiation, expanding our product portfolio, and reducing lead times.Over eighty years ago, when founder Gerald “Doc” O’Rourke saw that neighborhood kids needed footballs and basketballs, he started a basement operation to provide them. After introducing a line of sewn leather industrial bellows, Dynatect (formerly A&A) began designing and manufacturing components used in virtually all types of equipment and machinery, becoming a single-source provider for machine protection, cable/hose management, and compartment roll-up doors. (Slip clutches, ball screws, and molded products were added in the last decade).Today, Dynatect is a market leader in industrial equipment protection with eight production facilities and over 600 employees worldwide. Dynatect provides customer proximity all over the world thanks to its subsidiaries in Europe and Asia.Gerald O’Rourke founds A&A Manufacturing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Initial offerings include sewn fabric footballs and basketballs in response to a lack of youth athletic equipment by manufacturers who were previously redeployed to wartime production. Company founder uses his initials “GOR” as prefix-branding on many products including the subsequent umbrella brands of Gortite and Gortrac. (Since 2014, the company’s contemporary name is “Dynatect”)Dynatect shifts focus to producing flexible fabric bellows providing dynamic protection for industrial applications including machine tools. Over the following 20 years, Dynatect adds fabric roll ups covers and metal roll up covers. These offerings and others evolve into today’s highly recognized line of dependable Gortite protective bellows and covers.Dynatect adds telescopic metal cover and wiper capabilities for machine tools under the Gortite brand. Subsequently adopted by the largest US OEMs as industry standard.Dynatect adds XY face shield (multi-axis face-shield) capabilities. Over the next decade, Dynatect also develops aluminum slatted metal roll up doors for machines under the brand Alumaflex.Leveraging industrial sewing and metalwork capabilities, Dynatect adds articulated bus passageway bellows capabilities for the transportation market. Subsequently expands applications to trains and monorails.Ro-Lab American Rubber (Ro-Lab) is founded in Tracy, California. Ro-Lab provides custom molding specializing in engineered polymers. This evolves into molded bellows, bus bumpers, and athletic pitching wheels.Dynatect begins manufacturing busbar bellows for electrical distribution switchgear. This begins a 50-year journey becoming the preferred US provider of bus bar transitions/flex-connectors, providing protection from the environment in the presence of XYZ-axis misalignments and vibration.Taking advantage of exposure to the machine tool market, Dynatect acquires Stabiflex, founded in 1970. Cable carrier offerings are promoted under the Gortrac product line.Lead Screws International (LSI) is founded in Traverse City, MI. LSI evolves to design, manufacture, and repair precision ground ball screws for the machine tool industry.