Saratoga-Based Company Worked With Apple, Now Seeks Local Clients

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Your MacBook. Your golf clubs. The joint replacement your father just received. There’s a decent chance that a Saratoga Springs-based company is responsible, at least in part, for any or all of these things.

Guyson USA in the W.J. Grande Industrial Park is a surprisingly under-the-radar manufacturer given both its 50-year-long presence in the area and the sheer size of its facilities, which measure around 73,000 square feet. Contained within this massive space are machines capable of contributing to almost any industry, from aerospace to automotive to firearms. And after working on top-secret projects with the likes of Apple, Guyson is turning its attention to the Saratoga region.

“There’s a ton of local companies around here that I believe really could use us,” said Caitlin Lewis, who heads Guyson USA’s marketing and business development.

Guyson is an international company with offices scattered across the globe. Its primary specialty is designing and building cabinet-blast machinery used for production by manufacturers. This machinery can clean, finish, and surface treat a wide variety of products. Guyson is also enthusiastic about its work in robotics and engineering. A tour of its facilities reveals a plethora of complicated machinery that includes an entire room devoted to 3D printers that seem to be constantly at work.

Perhaps most impressive is the sheer range of products that Guyson helps create, from airplane turbine blades to dental implants to silverware to 10,000-pound tires.

“We’ve been from one end of the world to the other,” said Plant Manager Matt Bush.

One project that hit closer to home was Guyson’s repair of the U.S.S. Saratoga’s nearly 1,000-pound bell, which saw action in World War II aboard the aircraft carrier named for the famed Revolutionary War Battles of Saratoga. The bell had a crack in it, and the task fell to Bush and company to fix it up before it was placed at the entrance of the Saratoga National Cemetery.

“We put it in one of our machines and we polished it up,” Bush said. “All the support stuff, we built all that here.”

An American flag that flew on the U.S.S. Saratoga, presented to Guyson in 1994, is still prominently displayed in the company’s offices.

And it was perhaps Saratoga’s most defining feature that brought the international corporation to the Spa City in the first place. Guyson’s founders, the Thomson family, are racing fans and a well-known name in the motorsport world. It was the Saratoga Race Course that, in part, inspired the need-for-speed family to open their USA branch here.

“And obviously I think they fell in love with Saratoga because what’s not to love here?” Lewis said.

For more information about Guyson USA, visit www.guyson.com.