Gatterdam Electric Motors (GEM) was born. Ed Gatterdam and Lloyd Goemer started an electric motor repair business at 114 N. 30th Street in Louisville, KY. They concentrated on providing quality service at competitive prices. Ed's son, Fred Gatterdam, joined the company in 1977.

Gatterdam Electric Motor became the 1st North American distributor of Weg Electric Motors.

Gatterdam Electric Motor expanded their facility to over 11,000 square feet.

Schuyler John joined GEM. With Schuyler's background in sales and operations, GEM implemented technical, service, operational and equipment advances that built upon GEM's outstanding customer service record and abilities.

We completed the acquisition of Atlas Machine & Supply's "Pump Division". This addition bolstered our pump specific business by adding the ability to design pump systems, perform field service, improve our pump rebuild capabilities & became exclusive distributors of various pumps lines in our region.

We moved to a new 22,000 sq. ft. state of the art facility on 4615 Bittersweet Road. We further expanded the facility by close to 4,000 sq. ft the following year.

We invested in Motorbase, which was a critical advancement in our ERP system that tracks quotes, orders, jobs, inventory, etc which in turn increases efficiency & allows us to capitalize on historic data.

At that time, we became only the 59th Accredited Service Center in the world out of over 1900 EASA shops. It is further proof of our commitment to quality.