Continued growth of the company led to its move in 1999 to the current location, a 47,000 square foot facility in East Rochester, New York. The facility allowed Spinergy the space needed to add screen printing, CD-ROM replication, and high volume CD-R duplication services. In 2003, Spinergy celebrated twenty years of providing high quality products and services within the eMedia industry.

Timeline

1983
GR Associates was founded by Mary and Gary Reeves. As a home-based business, the company provided packaging products to software publishers nationwide.

1984-1986
GRA expanded to include assembly, warehousing and distribution services. During this period the company became a warehouse for Xerox Corporation and a vendor for Eastman Kodak Company’s Promotional Packaging Division. The addition of these services led the company to move into a larger facility.

1986-87
GRA moved to a 14,000 square foot facility. The company became a turnkey supplier for software packaging solutions when it added the outsourcing of offset printing and diskette duplication. Additionally, approximately 100 new items were added to the company’s stock product offerings. A 16-page product catalog was produced for use as a direct mail piece.

1988
GRA Packaging Services of Rochester was incorporated.

1990
Diskette duplication equipment was brought into GRA’s facility, allowing the company to become a direct provider of this duplication service.

1995
GRA became a direct provider of CD-Recordable duplication services when CD-R duplication equipment was installed at its facility.

1999
GRA expanded once again and moved to its current 47,000 square foot facility in East Rochester, New York. During this time GRA began to screen print in-house, enabling the company to provide up to six color disc printing for their customers. GRA was named to the Rochester Top 100 Companies List for the first time.

2000
A rotary CD screen printing press was brought to GRA, increasing its CD printing capabilities. GRA made the Rochester Top 100 Companies List again.

2001
GRA installed CD-ROM injection molding equipment, now offering CD-ROM manufacturing as an in-house service. The CD Duplication Lab was expanded to include several more CD-R duplication and thermal printing pieces of equipment. GRA became a value-added reseller of Rimage CD-R and DVD-R publishing equipment.

2002
GRA, Inc. introduced its new name as SPINERGY, creating a new logo and brand identity. Spinergy added DVD-R duplication and printing capabilities to their line of services.

2003
A second high-speed rotary CD/DVD screen printing press was added to the existing rotary press, increasing the company’s printing abilities. Spinergy increased CD-R duplicating capabilities with the addition of an Otari CDP-64. The company began to offer the service of converting video to DVD-R format. Spinergy celebrated its 20th anniversary and finished the year being named to the Rochester Top 100 Companies list for a third time.