Rotorcraft
Essex Industries Celebrates Seventh Decade
The family-owned business provides a wide variety of helicopter components.

While some 70-year-old companies are out there, not many can say one of their founders still comes to work every day. That’s the case with aviation component supplier Essex Industries, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Founded in 1947 by Harold and Sidney Guller, the latter at the age of 93 still has a hand in the family-owned business. An exhibitor at Heli-Expo for the past two decades, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company specializes in platform controls, a large variety of valves and regulators, liquid oxygen systems and emergency breathing equipment. Essex occupies four facilities in the city, totaling 180,000 sq ft of manufacturing space. Its staff consists of 270 employees, including 35 full-time engineers, with an average tenure of 15 years. The company has moved with the times and now offers state-of-the-art rapid prototyping capability utilizing 3-D printers and quick-casting tooling technology.

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