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The company was originally founded by John Bonnell, as a small shop manufacturing saw mills and grist mills in the rural Wisconsin area, since it was an ideal area for lumbering operations as well as the grain industry. Six years later the company was sold to George and Horace Trowbridge who added a gray iron foundry to meet the growing demand for repairs and machinery from the local saw mills and farmers. From there, the company was sold to several owners, until the company landed in the hands of George Giddings and O.F. Lewis.
As the company continued to expand, the saw mill business evolved into manufacturing of steam engines which allowed the company to expand as an industry leader. Not long after the lumber industry began to decline, and the company began to sell its saw mill machinery operations. By 1897, the company began to produce machine tools for the government of Fond du Lac. The first machines tool that the company began to produce were 17” and 19” engine lathes.
In 1910, the company was acquired by the Rueping family, who maintained the company name but began to develop and expand the product line to different types and size lathes. After several years of growth and decline, the company really skyrocketed in the 1980s and early 90s as G&L began to invest more in research and development as well as expanding into Europe to grow the customer base. By 1994 the company had become the largest North American Industrial automation and machine tool company, and one of the largest in the world