Gems Sensors and Controls is an engineering and manufacturing company which designs and develops products for a large range of manufacturing processes.

Gems Sensors is a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation

Danaher Corporation

The Danaher Corporation , is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products....

which has controlling interest in a further 102 manufacturing and engineering companies in North America and Europe.

History

In 1955 a young man working in his home in Plainville, Connecticut, required a method to monitor the level of liquids in containers. It is here that company founder Edward H. Moore along with his business partner, Gordon Seigle, established the Gems Sensors & Controls manufacturing company. The company acronym GEMS is a play on the initials of Edward Moore(EM) and Gordon Seigle(GS). Following this first patent in 1959 the two businessmen grew the company from a 6500 square feet (603.9 m²) building into a 60000 square feet (5,574.2 m²) manufacturing facility.

Gems Sensors began life manufacturing sensor products for the marine and industrial industries and quickly built a very strong and loyal client base. With this success Edward and Gordon were able to expand their facilities and staff to produce a broader range of products beyond level sensors, to pressure sensing and temperature sensing equipment. Many of these products simply affix to existing infrastructure and provide necessary layers of safety and precaution.