Glebar

Name

Glebar

Legal name

Medical Manufacturing Technologies (MMT)

Website

https://glebar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1952

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Glebar designs and manufactures modular precision grinding machines (centerless, micro, electrochemical, and form grinding) for medical device, aerospace, automotive, and industrial manufacturers worldwide, operating as a subsidiary of Medical Manufacturing Technologies under Arcline Investment Management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Grinding Machinery

SIC

Metalworkg Machinery & Equipment (3540), Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types (3541)

akta.pro primary industry

Grinding, Honing & Superfinishing Equipment (IMAHADAE)

Keywords

• Precision grinding machines
• Centerless grinding equipment
• Electrochemical grinding systems
• Medical device manufacturing machinery
• Industrial grinding automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Franklin Lakes

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Precision Grinding Machine Sales: Sale of precision centerless, micro, form, and ECG grinding machines. Machines are sold as standard platforms with configurable options, or as complete turnkey automated systems. Pricing is quote-based for industrial B2B sales.
2. Service, Support & TotalCare: Comprehensive service and support including annual/bi-annual system evaluations, on-site field service, process and application development support, and parts. TotalCare program provides ongoing customer success services.
3. Machine Upgrades & Rebuilds: Hardware and software upgrades for existing machines including electrolyte tank management, automatic wheel balancing, CAM SXE to CAM.2 upgrades, and complete machine rebuilds to factory specifications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Glebar designs, manufactures and configures modular precision grinding machine platforms for processing small-to-medium sized cylindrical and complex-shaped components across metals, ceramics and advanced materials. The product portfolio spans centerless grinding, micro grinding, electrochemical grinding (ECG), form grinding, OD/double-disc grinding and gauging systems, with integrated turnkey automation solutions for lights-out manufacturing. The company serves medical device, aerospace, automotive, energy, mining and consumer goods manufacturers globally through direct enterprise sales.

Product overview

Glebar operates as a precision grinding machine manufacturer with a modular platform architecture. The core product portfolio centers on centerless grinding machines (GT-610 series including CNC, standard, SD, M, and EZ variants), micro grinding systems (CAM.2, GT-9AC, TF-9D series), form grinding machines (PG-912DG, PG-9DHD, PG-9BHD, PG-9X20DHD), double disc and OD grinding (DD-7, PG-9DOD, PG-9CRG, FW-9D), and electrochemical grinding/cutoff machines (SG-1645, SG-2060, RVG-10, PGS-100, CS1 series, MCS-12). Acquired brands Tridex Technology and Everite Machine Products (2020) expanded ECG capabilities. Supporting products include gauging systems (P4K, P5K), dressing machines (DM-12 CNC, DM-9CNC, DM-9B), and secondary devices (GSR-6, GFS). The company offers TotalCare Services for support and Machine Upgrades for existing equipment, plus complete process solutions for catheter and guidewire manufacturing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tridex: Electrochemical Grinding (ECG) technology brand including point grinding systems, precision abrasive cutoff machines, and wheel dressing machines.
• Syneo

Products and services

• GT-610 CNC High precision automated infeed/thrufeed centerless grinding machine with complete lights-out solution for high automation, data gathering, and gauging feedback applications.
• GT-610 Automated infeed/thrufeed centerless grinding machine that can be custom fitted with automation for infeed applications without requiring a CNC dresser.
• GT-610 SD Highly automated infeed/thrufeed multiple pass centerless grinding machine with cleaning station, inline gauging, and automatic size compensation for hard materials.
• GT-610M Affordable compact precision thrufeed centerless grinding machine built for machine shop applications including spool valves, bar stock, pins, bushings, and engineered materials.
• GT-610 EZ Lean version of GT-610 with slide motion control at an affordable price point, excels at thrufeed grinding hard materials including steel, carbide, PCD inserts, and technical ceramics.
• TF-9DHD Infeed/throughfeed centerless grinder with computer controls for grinding both hard and soft materials including catheters, medical guidewires, and spinal cord stimulators.
• TF-9BHD Manual infeed/throughfeed centerless grinder capable of grinding both hard and soft materials including catheters, medical guidewires, and spinal cord stimulators.
• GT-9AC Automated guidewire grinder for precision grinding of medical guidewires with multiple tapers, paddles, and parabolic shapes at speeds as fast as a centerless grinder.
• CAM.2 Micro Grinder Micro grinder for grinding small, complex, precision medical applications including complex medical guidewires, radiuses, needle points, and non-linear shapes on components as small as 0.0005 inches.
• PG-912DG Enclosed centerless form grinder using 12-inch wide work wheel and servo motors to reduce setup times, increase throughput, and maintain tighter tolerances.
• PG-9DHD High-precision centerless form grinder with 10-inch wheel for multiple-part-per-cycle grinding with precise slide positions and controllability.
• PG-9BHD Centerless form grinder producing spherical or cylindrical components from pre-form or rod in materials including rubber, ceramics, wood, plastic, glass, and Teflon.
• PG-9X20DHD Centerless form grinder designed to form ceramic components such as unfired carbide.
• DD-7 Double Disc Grinder Compact double disc grinding machine for grinding small diameter components with accurate length and perpendicularity control.
• PG-9DOD OD grinder producing components requiring tight concentricity specification such as bearings, bushings, and engine components.
• PG-9CRG OD grinder shaping diameter on parts where diameter is concentric to centerline, manufacturing items from rubber rollers for laser printers to dental drills.
• FW-9D Ferris Wheel Grinder Ferris wheel/OD grinding machine forming parts concentric to inner diameter, with applications including car oxygen sensors, spark plugs, rubber feed rollers, and ceramic insulators.
• SG-1645 ECG Surface Grinder Burr-free electrochemical NC/CNC surface grinder providing faster alternative to traditional surface grinding with no recast or heat-affected zone.
• SG-2060 ECG Surface Grinder Burr-free electrochemical CNC surface grinder, faster alternative to traditional surface grinding with applications across medical device, aerospace, and automotive industries.
• Tridex RVG-10 Rotary Vertical Grinder Electrochemical rotary vertical grinder specifically designed for grinding inside and outside of stepped honeycomb diameters of aircraft engine components.
• PGS-100 ECG Point Grinder Fully programmable burr-free electrochemical point grinding system for manufacturing medical device points on tubing or solid wire such as trocars and K-wires.
• CS1-A Cutoff Machine Precision abrasive cutoff machine providing fast, clean cuts with little to no burrs.
• CS1-E ECG Cutoff Machine Burr-free electrochemical cutoff machine eliminating need for deburring or other corrective secondary operations and reducing scrap.
• CS1-EA Hybrid Cutoff Machine Hybrid burr-free electrochemical and precision abrasive cutoff machine combining best of CS1-A and CS1-E into one compact design.
• MCS-12 ECG Cutoff Machine Single axis burr-free electrochemical cutoff machine with completely burr-free cutting, eliminating need for deburring and reducing scrap.
• P4K Gauging System Profile metrology system for long parts or multiple short parts, positioned as industry standard for measuring medical guidewires with in-process and offline measurement and automatic size compensation.
• P5K Gauging System Profile metrology system for medical guidewires and other long or multiple short parts, providing in-process and offline measurement with automatic size compensation.
• Tridex DM-12 CNC Dressing Machine CNC grinding wheel truing and dressing machine for precision offline wheel dressing, standalone solution for 9-inch and 10-inch work wheels.
• DM-9CNC Dressing Machine CNC wheel dressing machine available for 9-inch and 10-inch work wheels that CNC dresses precision contours in vitrified grinding wheels.
• DM-9B Dressing Machine Manual wheel dressing machine designed to dress 9-inch diameter by up to 10-1/8-inch wide wheels used on PG-9BHD and PG-9DHD.
• GSR-6 Guidewire Deburring Machine Guidewire deburring machine that deburrs guidewires while automatically separating pass and fail parts and counting processed wires.
• GFS Feeding System Standalone feeding system that seamlessly connects and feeds parts into existing third-party machines including Swiss screw machines and manual grinding machines.
• TotalCare Services Comprehensive service and support program including customer care, technical support, annual system evaluations, on-site field service, and process and application development support.
• Machine Upgrades Hardware and software upgrades including electrolyte tank management, automatic wheel balancing, wheel dressing, CAM SXE to CAM.2 upgrade, variable speed control, Tridex companion software, OS upgrades, and machine rebuilds to factory specifications.
• Catheter Manufacturing Solutions Complete catheter manufacturing process solutions including liner stretching, tube feeding, catheter cutting, lamination/reflow, mandrel removing, catheter tipping, testing, laser marking, balloon forming, and bonding/welding.
• Guidewire Manufacturing Solutions Complete guidewire manufacturing solutions including wire feeding, wire cutting, micro grinding, deburring, gauging, and coil winding.

Quantifiable outcome

• One operator can run three or more machines due to automation reliability and grinder performance
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tridex TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020In 2020, Glebar acquired Tridex Technology and Everite Machine Products, world leaders in Electrochemical Grinding (ECG). Both companies focus on creative manufacturing solutions utilizing ECG technology for standard and custom applications. ECG combines abrasive grinding and electrochemical erosion producing more efficient, cost-effective, and burr-free parts.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Okamoto Corporation: Japanese manufacturer of surface, creep-feed, and double-disc grinding machines with a strong US presence. Overlaps with Glebar's OD/double-disc and form grinding product lines and competes for similar high-precision metalworking customers.
• JUNKER Group (Erwin Junker): German specialist in CNC grinding machines for tools, cam shafts, and cylindrical components. Comparable to Glebar in precision grinding technology breadth and serves overlapping aerospace/automotive and industrial customers.
• Milacron (Cincinnati Machine): US-based machine tool maker with a strong centerless and cylindrical grinding product line serving automotive and industrial customers. Direct overlap with Glebar's GT-610 and PG platforms in high-volume precision grinding applications.
• Chevalier Machinery: Manufacturer of surface, OD, and CNC grinding machines targeted at machine shops and contract manufacturers. Competes with Glebar's form and OD grinding lines in the small-to-mid-market segment.
• United Grinding Group (Studer, Schaudt, Walter, Kellenberger): Largest dedicated precision grinding machine group globally, offering cylindrical, surface, tool, and profile grinders. Direct competitor to Glebar's centerless, micro, and form grinding lines across medical, aerospace, and automotive customers with a much larger installed base and service network.
• Toyoda Machinery (JTEKT Toyoda): Major producer of cylindrical, internal, and surface grinding machines for automotive, bearing, and industrial markets. Competes head-to-head with Glebar in centerless and OD grinding, particularly for high-volume bearing and transmission components.
• Supertec Machinery: Taiwanese grinding machine maker offering centerless, cylindrical, and surface grinders. Comparable mid-market competitor to Glebar in thrufeed centerless and precision cylindrical grinding applications.

Broad incumbents

• Makino Milling Machine: Established Japanese machine tool builder focused on horizontal machining, EDM, and aerospace structural parts. Competes indirectly for the same aerospace and medical device OEM capex as Glebar, even though grinding is not its core specialty.
• Amada Machine Tools: Broad metalworking machinery portfolio including grinding, cutting, and forming equipment. Serves similar industrial manufacturing customers as Glebar and represents a much larger incumbent competing for general precision grinding budgets.
• DMG Mori: Global leader in CNC machine tools including turning, milling, and additive. While not a specialist grinding vendor, DMG Mori serves the same medical, aerospace, and automotive customers with broader precision manufacturing solutions and can displace grinding-specific capex budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/glebarcompany

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A2 records

Investments

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