GP:50

GP:50 is a pressure products manufacturing company organized in the State of New York in 1986. The founder, Donald J. Less , a native of North Tonawanda, NY, obtained a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie University, and his Masters Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. He was employed at both Bell Aerospace and Linde Division of Union Carbide prior to joining Taber, where he was employed as a design engineer. During the 1960s, Taber Instruments was making electronics equipment, including pressure transducers for aerospace applications. It was Mr. Less's idea at the time that the same transducers designed more simply would fill a major need in the industry. To follow his theory Mr. Less left Taber in October 1964 to create Viatran and designed a pressure transducer that was adapted to industrial applications. To house the company, an 800 sq.-ft. garage was rented at 405 Rhode Island St. in Buffalo. In October 1973, the company later moved into a 11,000 sq.-ft. plant at its present location on Grand Island. Today, the company has tripled in space, people and sales.

The products are mainly comprised of pressure transducers, transmitters and related items that are sold to the industrial, process control, aerospace and plastic extrusion markets.