Nixon Gear—a subsidiary of Gear Motions, Inc., with headquarters in Syracuse, New York—announces the appointment of Dean Burrows as its new president. Nixon Gear is an industry-leading gear manufacturer and supplier specializing in precision ground spur and helical gearing services. Burrows comes to Nixon Gear with 20 years of operations experience from various industries, including automotive, medical device, and consumer product fields.
Burrows joined Nixon Gear after serving as the vice president of operations for the Marietta Corporation. Prior to joining Marietta he worked for the Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technology, where he was the director of supply chain for its Residential Light Commercial International Division. Nixon Gear believes that his broad experience will add a fresh perspective to its precision and ground gear manufacturing growth. Thanks to extensive international experience—including living in France for three years while leading an acquisition integration for Carrier—he will be an essential part in developing the company as a global custom gear manufacturer of spur, helical, gear cutting, and gear grinding services.
Burrows earned a master’s of engineering management degree and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he has lived in the Utica, Albany, Rochester, and Syracuse, New York. He currently lives in Syracuse with his wife and their three children.
A subsidiary of Gear Motions, Nixon Gear’s manufacturing plant is located in Syracuse, where the company has been grinding gears since 1969. An industry-leading gear manufacturer and supplier, Nixon Gear has become the first choice of demanding applications for high precision ground gears. They specialize in state-of-the-art production gear grinding and pride themselves in manufacturing gears that stand up to the scrutiny of the most demanding quality requirements. Nixon Gear’s nearly 90 years of gear manufacturing experience includes high-precision, custom bevel, worms, and internals along with production precision ground spur and helical gears.
With two manufacturing locations—the other being Oliver Gear, in Buffalo—Gear Motions is a leading supplier of custom cut and ground gears. They are also a leading producer of custom precision ground spur and helical gears as well as bevel, worm, and cut gearing. Gear Motions products include precision spur, helical, bevel, and worm gears. In addition, their popular lines include belt sprockets, timing pulleys, and splines.
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