Gleason Corporation is a prominent machine tool builder based in Rochester, New York, US. [1] It has manufacturing plants in the US, Britain, India, China, Switzerland and Germany, and sales offices in those and additional countries.
Gleason's importance lies in gear manufacturing — especially in building the machine tools that themselves cut the teeth. These gears and these machines are sold to industrial customers in a wide variety of fields, such as companies in the automotive and aerospace industries.