As a result of the closure of the Churchill Redman and Denham lathe factories at Halifax in 1973, the original Greening and Crowther Engineering Company was founded, as a partnership, between two of the former employees of these companies.
The records, drawings and all specification data of the entire range of Churchill Redman and Denham machine tool products was taken over by the partnership and a spares, repair and reconditioning service was established catering for a wide range of machine tools.
The company steadily increased its capacity and work-force and began producing special purpose machines alongside the reconditioning activities.
In December 1984 the partnership acquired a limited company and was incorporated as Formula Technology Limited. This was changed to Greening and Crowther Engineering Company in January 1985. The limited company was acquired to deal with overseas contracts and to administer spares enquiries from North America.
On 1st November 1989 the partnership was converted into a limited company and so became Greening and Crowther Engineering Company Limited.
During 1993 the second of the two founders retired and the remainder of the shares were acquired by the present owners who are the Directors
The company name was changed in 2001 to GAC Engineering Group Limited.
In 2003, GAC moved to modern premises on Burnley Road in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the birth place of the machine tool industry for the world.
Today, more than 35 years on, GAC Engineering Group Limited are still a recognized leader in designing and producing quality machine tool rebuilds, repairs, retrofits and many other support activities in machine tools.
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