Graco

Brand Overview

Graco manufactures and markets premium move, measure, control, spray a wide variety of fluid and powder materials, and also dispense equipment. They employ approximately 3,500 people worldwide and serve thousands of customers in over 100 countries.

Brothers Russell and Leil Gray incorporated Gray Company in April 1926 at the height of the “Roaring Twenties.” The Gray brothers launched the company to manufacture and market an air-powered, portable lubricator Russell invented while working as a parking lot attendant. His big idea emerged as he fumbled with a manual grease gun in freezing Minneapolis temperatures that turned grease into thick sludge. The Gray brothers had a “start-up” and they began operations at 120 South Tenth Street in Minneapolis.