Our History

GAM Enterprises began in 1990 when Gary Michalek saw an opportunity to start a long-term relationship with Jakob Antriebstechnik, a German based company who introduced the first servo bellows coupling into the automation market. We began as a distributor but soon realized to be successful, we needed to add manufacturing. GAM soon became known as the company to call when you needed great service and a custom bored coupling shipped same day.

In 1998, GAM Gear was formed with Craig Van den Avont, who left Rexroth Indramat as Chief Engineer to start our high precision gearbox company to complement GAM’s servo coupling product line. The two companies merged in 2013. The overall company has grown under his leadership both in top line revenue and in capabilities. GAM has a compounded annual growth rate of double digits for over 20 years.

GAM has evolved to become a full manufacturing company, where many of our products are designed and manufactured in our USA manufacturing plant, located in Mount Prospect, Illinois. GAM is proud of the fact that we are bringing manufacturing back to the United States. Today 90% of the gearboxes GAM ships are produced in the USA.

Today GAM is known for its breadth of products, flexible manufacturing, and the ability to collaborate with customers to provide unique solutions to customer applications.