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In 1955 a small company named ‘GESellschaft für Internationale PAtentverwertung’ was founded. Shortly afterwards a patent application was filed for the ‘process of producing breakstem blind rivet joints’ and a ‘hand tool for setting blind rivets’.

This was the beginning of GESIPA®, with the company’s first participation at the Hanover trade fair coming at the end of the 1950s, where it made a lasting impression on many customers, from various industries, with its blind riveting technology.

Family-owned until the end of 2008, GESIPA has now been a member of the internationally operating SFS Group for more than ten years and has established itself as one of the leading suppliers in the sector of blind riveting technology. From the first battery powered blind rivet setting tool to efficient, automatic processing, with setting process monitoring, GESIPA blind riveting technology has been meeting the highest demands in industry and trade for 65 years.   

Despite some challenges, its targeted investments in worldwide locations, market orientation, flexibility, and concentration on local core competences, have made GESIPA a strong company in the past few decades.

“It was, and is, mainly the people, affectionately called ‘Gesipaner’, who create the trust and reliability associated with Gesipa – with their enthusiasm, experience, competence and honesty,” comments GESIPA. “They translate slogans into values that today, especially in these difficult times, are more important than ever and thus shape the cooperation with customers and partners. We have made it our business to constantly improve our products, to develop new ideas the markets of tomorrow need and that will continue to impress our customers.”