About Us

GEA of Texas is a high technology distributor of automation components with offices in Houston, Dallas, and Austin. We specialize in providing quality electronics such as sensors, motion systems, programmable controllers, meters, process/temperature controllers, contactors/starters, etc. With over 40 years of leadership as an automation supplier in Texas, the products and services GEA offers are world class and suitable for most industrial control needs.

This CD Catalog contains some of the most commonly used components that GEA offers. Our entire product offering is much larger than what is shown here. Please contact us for specific products or requirements. Our knowledgeable and friendly inside and outside sales staff will be happy to assist you in any way possible.

History

GEA has been a supplier of automation equipment in Texas for over 40 years. The owner and original founder is Marshall Gettys. Mr. Gettys was born in 1927 in Amarillo, Texas and graduated from Amarillo High School in 1944. He served in the U.S. Navy for the next two years in the South Pacific including landings at Luzon and Okinawa.

He attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas after WWII in 1947. In 1950 Mr. Gettys graduated first in his class with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He was President of the Student Body that donated the now famous statue of Will Rodger and Sunset (feel free to ask which direction Sunset is facing and why). At Texas Tech he earned All-American honors as a defensive tackle on the two-time Border Conference Champion Red Raider football team.

In the fall of 1950 Mr. Gettys joined the Lynn Elliot Company in Dallas. In 1959 he moved to Houston and subsequently started Gettys Engineering in 1963. Shortly afterward in 1965 he partnered with a fellow Red Raider William "Bill" Adair (deceased 1996). They were soon joined by a third limited partner Ralph Eads who provided office space and access to ATC timers and Veeder Root counters, lines that GEA still carries. Together they started Gettys Eads Adair. GEA of Texas was officially started in 1967 because no one could spell Gettys, Eads or Adair (tax considerations was the real reason). Mr. Eads left the partnership in 1976, and Mr. Gettys bought out Mr. Adair in 1986.

Dave Aitken joined the company and started the Dallas branch office in 1974. Mark Gettys started another office in Austin in 1992.

In 1986 annual sales topped $1,000,000, and in 2005 GEA had its first $1,000,000 month. Sales have increased every year since 1963. Today GEA employs over twenty employees in three offices.

GEA has brought a unique approach to selling automation equipment in Texas. Few companies can match our experience and technical hands on approach.