D&D Technologies Acquires BadAss® Hinge Manufacturer
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D&D Technologies announces the acquisition of SHUT IT® Gate Hardware, the manufacturer of BadAss® hinges. The acquisition provides D&D additional product lines of wheels and steel hinges to complement its current magnetic safety latches, hydraulic closers, aluminum and polymer product portfolio.
"We are delighted with this acquisition, and we welcome SHUT IT® as part of the D&D family," says David Calabria, CEO, D&D Technologies. "This is a synergistic and complimentary union of two companies that were born out of the fencing industry, and have provided leadership and innovation to the industry by inventing new products. This acquisition will allow us to expand by providing more brilliant designs and new products to our existing product line up."
SHUT IT® started as Counsel Industries, LLC specializing in the design and distribution of hardware and gate systems for the metal fence and access control industries.
Founded in 1998, Counsel began marketing innovative gate solutions designed to ease installation requirements and eliminate premature wear on expensive automated gate operator systems.
In the mid-1990s, as vehicular access control began to explode as an industry, two veterans of the fence and access control industries, discovered that many of their maintenance and repair issues for automated gate systems were being caused by the faulty or inferior hardware used on many gates. With the help of a team of engineers and an award-winning CNC machinist they set out to develop a line of products that would eliminate the damage caused to expensive operator systems by the poor hardware available in the market.
"It all started with the ORIGINAL BadAss® Hinge," says Skip Bengtson, Chief Bad Ass, Shut It. "Using bearing technology, the ORIGINAL BadAss gate hinge, is CNC machined to the tightest tolerances in the industry. Due to our unique bushing design The ORIGINAL, like all other SHUT IT gate hinges, produces near frictionless movement with maintenance free usage."
After years of development and field testing the Arizona based Counsel Industries was born. Since then, Counsel grew from being a local supplier in the Tucson market to a company with a nationwide distribution network and customers around the globe.
In 2010, the company rebranded itself as SHUT IT Gate Hardware in order to better reflect what the company had become. BadAss and HardCore brands were born.
