Engineering Manufacturing Technologies of Endicott has grown in the past several years
Candidate for Congress Kim Myers toured a Broome County manufacturing company, Engineering Manufacturing Technologies (EMT) of Endicott, and hailed it as a small business success story. The company has expanded and more than doubled its workforce, from 73 employees in 2013 to more than 150 employees today.
Myers toured the newly-renovated facilities with EMT President and CEO Jim Kirkwood.
Among other metal products, EMT is well-known as a worldwide market leader in manufacturing gun magazines or gun “clips” for some of the top firearms companies, including Remington Arms and Smith and Wesson. EMT has not only experienced substantial growth in the firearms industry over the past 3 years, but has had significant growth in the automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and defense industries. It manufactures metal stamping products, sheet metal fabrication, and machining metal components.
“Small businesses like EMT are the backbone of our economy,” said Myers. “Our area has seen some amazing growth in the past few years and I believe we are poised for even more exciting developments. We need strong leadership on the federal level to make sure that our communities are able to take full advantage of all the opportunities yet to come. We must create a friendly environment and make it more attractive for small businesses.”
“Small business growth like this can be the catalyst for economic development across New York and here in the 22nd Congressional district,” said Kirkwood. “EMT has been able to not only double our employment over the past 3 years, but we have more than tripled our annual revenue dollars. EMT has been successful because of our skilled and committed workforce, but also because of the capital investment the new ownership group has undertaken.”
EMT has invested more than $6 million dollars and expanded to a manufacturing facility that is now over 80,000 square feet, with plans for continued growth in the future.
EMT supplies metal component parts to over a dozen Fortune 500 companies and several more publicly-traded companies. It was previously known as Endicott Machine and Tool Company, incorporated in 1949 by founder Joseph Marconi. The company was sold in 2013 to EMT.