For years, washdown duty indicated a relatively standard product with the addition of some epoxy paint and perhaps improved shaft seals.  While demonstrating a marked improvement over standard industrial product, it fell far short of the requirement for GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) as practiced in the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries.  In early 1988, while manager of a R&D engineering group within a Biologics company, our company founder and chief engineer realized that “somebody should be making stainless steel motors for this industry”.

Stainless Motors, Inc. was therefore incorporated in 1988 to specifically address the lack of suitable stainless steel, sanitary, washdown tolerant power transmission equipment available to the processing industries. Operating from an austere 2,000 sq-ft leased industrial unit, with machinery purchased at auction, initial products were limited to stainless steel electric motors from 1/2 HP to 20 HP.  Demand and subsequent growth was immediate and the company soon introduced several models of stainless steel gearmotors and reducers.  Centrifugal pump adapters, flexible couplings and portable pump carts followed over the next several years.

In 2003, after four plant expansions with no further room to grow, we began the search for a new location.  The decision was made to leave the Los Angeles Area and build a brand new building in a developing industrial park near Albuquerque, New Mexico, 800 miles to the East.  The move to the new facility was accomplished in 2004.

Our new facility is nearly three times the size of the former location, with plenty of land to more than double yet again.  We have modern late-model CNC machine tools and excellent conventional machinery as well.  Manufacturing philosophy has always been to do as much in-house as possible, and we are now producing all of our planetary gear sets in our well-equipped gear department.

With over 300 standard electric motor models, 60 gearmotors, centrifugal pump adapters, flexible couplings, and complete turn-key portable pump systems, Stainless Motors, Inc. is by far the most knowledgeable, most experienced and most capable manufacturer of stainless steel sanitary power transmission equipment. Although still relatively small in size, we have shipped more quality stainless steel power transmission equipment than all other electric motor companies combined.