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Gerald O’Rourke founded 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 shifted focus to producing flexible fabric bellows, providing dynamic protection for industrial applications including machine tools. Over the following 20 years, Dynatect added fabric roll-up covers and metal roll-up covers. These offerings and others have evolved into today’s highly recognized line of dependable Gortite® protective bellows and covers.

Custom Products Corporation (CPC) is founded in Connecticut, manufacturing slip clutches under the brand Polyclutch®.

Dynatect adds telescopic metal cover and wiper capabilities for machine tools under the Gortite® brand. Subsequently adopted by the largest US OEMs as an industry standard.

Stabiflex is founded in Indiana, manufacturing steel cable & hose carriers.

Dynatect adds XY (multi-axis) 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) was 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.

Dynatect opens a new 75,000 square foot manufacturing facility for cable carriers in Valparaiso, IN.  Production includes plastic cable carriers.

Milwaukee Protective Covers (MPC) is founded, manufacturing roll-up covers and RF thermally welded bellows (heat sealed bellows).

Utilizing aluminum slatted roll-up cover capability, Dynatect develops aluminum slatted roll-up doors (RUD) for fire and emergency vehicles.  This includes establishing an automotive-grade paint line.  Dynatect RUD is subsequently adopted by the largest fire truck OEM as the default offering. Applications expand to include work trucks and military vehicles.

Capitalizing on machine tool exposure, Dynatect acquires Milwaukee Protective Covers, established in 1992.

Tapping into general industrial exposure, Dynatect adds portable and modular weld curtains capabilities.

Thodacon Machine Tool Accessories is founded in China, manufacturing way wipers, telescopic covers, bellows, aluminum slatted aprons, roll-up covers, and pit covers. Subsequently, services Europe, Asia, and North America.

Leveraging general industrial exposure and the demand for mini-clutches, Dynatect acquires Custom Products Corporation, founded in 1964.

Utilizing experience with metal cable carriers for Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) in construction, Dynatect introduces Gortrac® SX series AWP metal cable carrier for longer-reach applications featuring fewer components, lighter weight, and lower cost. Subsequently adopted by the largest AWP OEMs as a global industry standard.

Drawing upon global demand for metal cable carriers by multi-national construction OEMs, Dynatect establishes an importer presence in China.

Leveraging expertise in roll-up doors for work trucks, Dynatect introduces bed covers that can protect service bodies either horizontally or horizontally and vertically.  This offering is subsequently refined to include water mitigation options.

Leveraging experience in transportation and construction, Dynatect acquires Ro-Lab, established in 1976.

Tapping into increasing global exposure in machine tools, Dynatect acquires Halltech GmbH, a machine tool distributor in Germany, servicing Europe.

Leveraging exposure to machine tool market, Dynatect acquires Lead Screws International, Inc (LSI), established in 1985.

Taking advantage of distribution in Europe, machine tool protection, and transportation protection, Dynatect acquires MFB Technik Schillig GmbH (MFB). MFB manufactures machine tools and transportation protection products in Germany for Europe. Dip-molded bellows were added to the portfolio.

Thodacon Werkzeugmaschinenschutz GmbH (Thodacon GmbH) is founded in Kolbermoor, Germany as the sales office of Thodacon Wuxi to service the European machine tool market.

With a portfolio that changes and expands over 70 years, now focused on DYNAmic proTECTion, the company rebrands under one unified trade name and brand mark: “Dynatect”.

Drawing upon construction market and custom molding experience, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture pipe guides and rod wipers for horizontal directional drilling equipment.

Employing large format fabric manufacturing like bus bellows, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture large format machine roof covers to service both machine tool and robotics & automation markets.

Steinbock GmbH is founded in Germany as a distributor for machine tool accessories including ecommerce.  Thodacon GmbH acquired Steinbock in 2018.

Leveraging transportation passageway bellows, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture mobile building bellows for connecting cargo containers, which are retrofitted into hospitals/offices.

Applying decades of roll-up machine door experience and automation, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture high-speed automated machine safety doors for work cells to service robotics & automation markets.

Tapping into robotics & automation and cable carrier experience, Dynatect adds two additional long travel cable carrier solutions ideal for 7th axis robots and other applications.

Revisiting the company’s beginning with athletic equipment, and further diversifying, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture dual-durometer urethane spin-cast pitching wheels for pitching simulators. Subsequently adopted by the largest US athletic pitching simulator OEMs as an industry standard.

Dynatect acquires Thodacon Machine Tool Accessories in China (established 2007) and Thodacon GmbH in Germany (established 2013).  All Dynatect European entities enter a 2-year journey to consolidate sales and manufacturing organization/operations, becoming Dynatect Europe.

Leveraging US manufacturing of cable carrier, Dynatect establishes stamping and assembly of Gortrac® cable carrier in China for Asia Aerial Work Platform (AWP) industry. Subsequently adopted by the largest Chinese AWP OEMs as an industry standard.

Applying robotics & automation market experience, adds capability to manufacture high-speed metal roll-up doors for robotic laser welding work cells.

Employing transportation roll up door and automotive paint capabilities, Dynatect adds capability to manufacture delivery vehicle roll-up doors for last mile delivery vehicles and work trucks.

In response to increasing OEM demand for vehicle roll up doors and door handles, Dynatect opens an 85,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Leon, Mexico.

Leveraging expertise in both bed covers and powered roll-up doors, Dynatect combines those technologies into motorized bed covers that can be used in vehicle or industrial applications.

Having built custom modular pre-framed roll-up door assemblies for a decade, Dynatect formalizes a standard offering that reduces installation time, errors, and service issues for vehicle applications.