GEMCO | In the Lead

2024 Family-Owned Businesses

NJBIZ STAFF//October 28, 2024//

A fourth-generation family-owned industrial manufacturer, GEMCO has been providing tumble mixing and drying solutions since 1916.

A fourth-generation family-owned industrial manufacturer, GEMCO has been providing tumble mixing and drying solutions since 1916. - PROVIDED BY GEMCO

A fourth-generation family-owned industrial manufacturer, GEMCO has been providing tumble mixing and drying solutions since 1916.

A fourth-generation family-owned industrial manufacturer, GEMCO has been providing tumble mixing and drying solutions since 1916. - PROVIDED BY GEMCO

GEMCO | In the Lead

2024 Family-Owned Businesses

NJBIZ STAFF//October 28, 2024//

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For more than 100 years, GEMCO, a fourth-generation family-owned industrial manufacturer has been providing best-in-class tumble mixing and drying solutions. Founded as the General Machine Company of New Jersey (later shortened to GEMCO) in 1916 by John Muench Sr., GEMCO has engineered, produced, and installed thousands of mixers and dryers worldwide and maintains the largest tumble mixing and drying technology center on the planet. Headquartered in Middlesex, GEMCO boasts an 80,000 sq. ft. industrial machine factory, powder test and tolling center. Today, some 40 different sectors use GEMCO’s equipment from pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals to chemicals, powdered metals, food and beverage, cosmetics, and more. Casey Muench Bickhardt currently serves as president and CEO and Gregg Muench as vice president of sales and marketing for the company that describes itself as the undisputed, global mixing and drying authority. “We prefer not to brag about ourselves. We’ll let the fact that we have an installed base of thousands of powder blending and drying units in nearly 40 countries around the world in some 40 industries speak for itself,” the company writes on its website. “We have always been focused on tumble mixing and drying. We have never pretended to be something we are not. We have stayed true to our core competencies and thus, are the one everyone in the industry looks to and follows.”