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From GSMW to GSM

GSM's organization in the 1920's
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South Bend, Indiana 1923. H. P. Axelberg, the son of a Norwegian immigrant, saw opportunity with the growth of Studebaker Organization and the University of Notre Dame. With the goal of serving the industrial sheet metal needs of the thriving community he opened General Sheet Metal Works on South Main Street, designing and building paint booths, dust collectors, and air handling systems for the Studebaker automotive plants. Soon, GSMW was building ventilation systems and metal roofing for the University of Notre Dame. Responsiveness to customer needs for metal fabrications led to the company replacing the gold leaf on the University’s iconic Golden Dome.

Municipal construction projects sustained the company through the Great Depression. By the 1940’s and with the United States’ entry into World War II, GSMW took on numerous projects for Studebaker, as assembly lines were reconfigured to produce equipment for the war effort.

After the war, residential construction and products boomed, creating new metal fabrication opportunities. In response, a separate five-man manufacturing division provided metal component parts for manufacturers of finished products. Opportunities increased, while demand for sheet metal contracting declined. Soon, metal fabrication became GSMW’s primary focus. As the principal supplier to Wheel Horse Products, a South Bend company enjoying tremendous success with its line of garden tractors, GSMW added to its fabricating capabilities, resulting in new customers and enabling GSMW to enter new markets while continuously diversifying its fabrication skills and offerings.

Customer demand led to the building of a new, dedicated facility in Tomah, Wisconsin, to simplify a major customer’s logistics. By 2010, the company’s rapid response in producing mounting infrastructure for the secondary energy market, most notably in utility grade solar, led to a significant expansion of its stamping, welding and assembly capacities to help its customer scale their operation.

Today, as General Stamping & Metalworks, our brand new 190,000 square foot factory and leading edge fabrication equipment are just the next step in our evolution, one based on 95 years of experience and a reputation for delivering on time, at the right price, exactly what our customers want.

Today, as General Stamping & Metalworks, we have evolved to become one of North America’s leading providers of stampings and fabricated metal parts to progressive OEM’s worldwide. GSM is considered a strategic partner and trusted provider by leading manufacturers in a wide range of industries.

GSM can support your company every stage of the product life cycle, from prototyping through production, to service parts that keep their reputation for quality and reliability intact.

If your project requires professional engineering support, unparalleled responsiveness, flexibility and a fully integrated supply chain, talk with us. Our mission is to protect your brand through collaborative engineering and supply chain security, while enabling you to scale your operations.

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Auriga Services’ partnership with IOTICS is leading the way in enabling utility companies to ‘truly share data, securely’

Digital cooperation capability from IOTICS enables a decentralised data ecosystem for the Auriga Priority Services Registration and Essential Sharing Network engine. The current energy and financial crisis, combined with the severe weather conditions at the end of 2022 have been described as the ‘perfect storm’ of risks for consumers in particularly vulnerable situations. The system used to directly address and importantly help how thousands of UK individuals are prioritised, protected, and supported within their homes... Source: RealWire [...]

Northern Gas Networks signs IOTICS to unlock future energy solutions

Digital cooperation capability from IOTICS enables a decentralised data ecosystem for the ground-breaking Northern Gas Networks (NGN) Customer Energy Village. Northern Gas Networks has selected technology from IOTICS and unique architecture to enable a multi-party, cross-sector data ecosystem. Northern Gas Networks deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire and the data ecosystem will provide a decentralised digital spine for the recently announced NGN Customer... Source: RealWire [...]

A New Hybrid Gateway with G.hn Backhaul Unveiled by MaxLinear and Microchip Technology for Versatile Smart Grid Use Cases

Frankfurt, Germany, 01 December, 2022: Electric utilities can now provide real-time data on energy power consumption with Hybrid Gateways integrating G.hn Powerline (PLC) technology as broadband backhaul for a complete range of proven technologies, according to evidence from MaxLinear and Microchip Technology. This Proof of Concept (PoC) has been jointly developed by HomeGrid Forum member MaxLinear, leading provider of multi-gigabit connectivity solutions, and Microchip Technology, leading provider of smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions.... Source: RealWire [...]

Portuguese energy distributor E-REDES selects Opendatasoft for new open data portal
Portuguese energy distributor E-REDES selects Opendatasoft for new open data portal

Aims to increase transparency and accelerate energy transition through data democratisation Paris, 28 November 2022, Opendatasoft, the European leader in data democratisation platforms, today announced that it has been chosen by E-REDES, Portugal’s energy distribution network operator, to provide the technology platform for its new open data portal. The portal, which has just gone live, aims to democratise access to E-REDES’ comprehensive energy data, delivering greater corporate transparency, enabling innovation, and supporting the shift to... Source: RealWire [...]

Hornsea 2, the World's Largest Windfarm, Enters Full Operation
Hornsea 2, the World's Largest Windfarm, Enters Full Operation

Ørsted is proud to announce that the world’s largest installed windfarm, Hornsea 2, is now fully operational. The 1.3GW project comprises 165 wind turbines, located 89km off the Yorkshire Coast, which will help power over 1.4 million UK homes with low-cost, clean and secure renewable energy. It is situated alongside its sister project Hornsea 1, which together can power 2.5 million homes and make a significant contribution to the UK Government’s ambition of having 50... Source: RealWire [...]

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Siman Group partners with SML to unlock full retail potential

Central American retailer achieves >95% inventory accuracy across chain with item-level RFID 26 January 2023, Texas, USA - SML, a worldwide leader in retail RFID technology and solutions, today announces details of its latest deployment with Siman Group, the leading Central American department store. Following the implementation of SML’s item-level RFID solutions, Inspire™ RFID tags, and Clarity® enterprise software, Siman Group’s operational processes have seen a complete transformation in efficiency and customer satisfaction. Siman initially... Source: RealWire [...]

Crossword Cybersecurity partners with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Partnership to support BCS members with cybersecurity and cyber supply chain resilience 19th January 2023 – London, UK – Crossword Cybersecurity Plc (AIM:CCS, “Crossword”, the “Company” or the “Group”), the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy and risk, today announces it has partnered with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (“BCS”). BCS has over 60,000 members in 150 countries with a mission to ensure everyone’s experience with technology is positive. The partnership will support... Source: RealWire [...]

Sedex appoints new Chief Marketing Officer to drive global growth in sustainable supply chains, as company reaches 75,000 members

London and Chicago, 19 January 2023 Leading sustainability technology company Sedex is pleased to announce the appointment of Maurizio Capuzzo as Chief Marketing Officer. Based in North America, Capuzzo joins the company’s leadership team to further advance Sedex’s mission of making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable. Capuzzo is an award-winning marketing executive with over two decades of leadership experience in marketing, strategic planning and delivering results for technology brands. His strong track... Source: RealWire [...]

RKVST launches new public attestation service for supply chain operations
RKVST launches new public attestation service for supply chain operations

Expansion of RKVST supply chain evidence management platform includes multi-tenancy, verified domain name and batch transactions, for easy-to-deploy supply chain visibility, provenance and governance SANTA CLARA, Calif., and CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – January 18, 2023 – RKVST, the evidence management platform for trustworthy supply chain operations, announces its public attestation feature, adding a new level of trust for digital supply chains that can be used to prove the provenance of any digital or physical asset. Together... Source: RealWire [...]

Signed, sealed, not delivered: 73% of customers lose faith as cost-of-living crisis sees porch poacher problem

63% of customers experience delayed online orders, while nearly three quarters had to chase a retailer on the whereabouts of their parcel 87% of consumers would trust a brand more if they had communicated the status of the delivery more effectively London, 18th January 2023: 73% of consumers think more parcels are going missing since the cost-of-living crisis, with the UK potentially seeing a porch poacher phenomenon. That’s according to new data from Delivery Experience... Source: RealWire [...]

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