Custom Equipment Manufacturing
Innovation That Keeps Pace with Your Business
As a contract manufacturer for OEMs and an equipment provider for end-users, Gray partners with customers worldwide to improve product design, reduce production costs, and ensure premium product quality. Top brands count on our fulfillment, engineering, and fabrication capabilities to meet their customers’ ever-changing needs.
With decades of design-build experience at our core, Gray approaches every customer request with a personalized process to match your specifications and deliver premium quality products that are purpose-built for your application. Whether working from concept or a laid-out print, Gray can quickly and correctly design and fabricate your custom system.
Our services include:
- Custom equipment manufacturing
- Layout design
- Custom machine builders
- Engineering services
- Factory acceptance testing (FAT)
- Commissioning & advanced system integration
- Startup support & servicing

In our limited-access assembly bays, we protect your technology and intellectual property. From component parts and critical assemblies to complete production equipment, we have the tools, experience, and discretion to be your trusted OEM partner.
Find out what makes Gray the industry’s trusted provider for custom equipment fabrication.
Custom Equipment Build Services FAQ
Our experienced engineering team plays a critical role in optimizing performance by tailoring machine designs to meet specific production needs. Whether partnering with customers from concept to completion or applying design-for-manufacturing (DFM) principles to existing customer designs, we ensure every piece of equipment is engineered for efficiency, manufacturability, and long-term value.
Within our Specialty Equipment group, Gray offers a full range of in-house capabilities (including mechanical and electrical engineering, fabrication, automation, and integration) to support every phase of the manufacturing process. These capabilities allow us to streamline custom equipment projects from design through delivery, ensuring precision, consistency, and efficiency throughout.
Custom-designed machinery is built around your unique production process and project requirements. Unlike off-the-shelf solutions, our equipment manufacturing services allow us to deliver systems that improve throughput, minimize downtime, and enhance overall workflow efficiency.
Gray’s machine design-build services support a wide range of industries, with core expertise in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, industrial, and vacuum science markets. Each project benefits from our deep knowledge of custom equipment design and fabrication as well as our experience developing equipment solutions for a variety of unique applications. Whether meeting strict regulatory standards or delivering high-precision machinery, we help customers achieve greater efficiency, improved quality, and consistent performance across their manufacturing process.
Markets
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Manufacturing
U.S. manufacturing is resurgent. Driven by exciting new technologies and processes, record-setting investment and incentives, and reshoring trends across the sector, manufacturing is once again an industry of promise, creating new jobs and fueling innovation.
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Food and Beverage
Gray’s fully integrated services have you covered at every phase of your food & beverage project. From facility design and construction to process engineering and equipment manufacturing, we offer our customers proven solutions that deliver world-class results for years to come.
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Data Centers
The cloud computing industry faces a demand crisis. Compared to a year ago, corporate accounts across the board need more storage capacity, greater service speed, continuous uptime, and the assurance that providers have answers to their challenges.
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Advanced Technology
The integration of advanced technology in professional and private life has hit critical mass. From macroeconomics to micro-entertainment, the future hinges on our ability to leverage technology in ways that empower people to live more efficiently, more sustainably, and more securely.
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Distribution
The modern distribution facility is a substantially more sophisticated operation than that of a generation ago. From automated storage and material handling to digital inventory and order management, today’s industry is dependent on a steady stream of data and uncompromising efficiency.
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Commercial
The retail world is always in motion. Changing consumer trends, tech innovation, and corporate expansion strategies all play important roles in identifying areas of need and prioritizing commercial projects. The firm you choose must safely and quickly create a highly engaging, versatile space for the public.
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