The Traveling Salesman Spends 10 Minutes with Genevieve Gurnick-Long Seaway Bolt & Specials
Traveling Salesman (TS): First of all, thank you for taking me on a tour of your facility. There is a lot of history here. And it’s kind of funny to me that you are located in the town right next to where my home and office are located. We’re neighbors. I could not help but notice old brochures and signage that showed some of the Seaway Bolt history. And that seems like a great place to start. Tell me about the history of Seaway Bolt.
Genevieve Gurnick-Long: Seaway Bolt & Specials was founded in 1957 by my grandfather, Raymond S. Gurnick, and a partner, with the idea to make ladder bolts. Due to a price war on ladder bolts, they quickly had to pivot into other product lines. With the open die headers that they had, they started producing long length specialty bolts and taper thread pipe plugs which has grown to be our core product line.