Variety Fabrication
Custom Fabrication Built Around Your Operation
Thinking Outside the Bin Since 1977
Gillison’s Variety Fabrication is where creative thinking meets hands-on engineering. For decades, we’ve partnered with growers, researchers, and innovators to design equipment that solves real-world problems—especially the ones that don’t have off-the-shelf answers. When standard solutions fall short, we step in with ingenuity, experience, and craftsmanship.
From Concept to One-of-a-Kind Solutions
Our legacy of innovation began in 1977, when engineers from Michigan State University challenged Ron Gillison to build a safer hedger for pruning fruit trees. That collaborative mindset still defines how we work today. From patented soil and root analysis machines to custom agricultural equipment found nowhere else, Gillison’s has earned a reputation for turning complex ideas into reliable, working machines.
Three Good Reasons to Trust Gillison's Custom Fabrication Services
Experience & Expertise
We bring decades of farming, engineering and manufacturing expertise to your operation to find the right solution.
Always Innovating
We have fabricated and patented numerous award-winning innovations. What can we build for you?
Trusted Worldwide
We have helped customers in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond, in more than 70 countries!
Proven Experience. Global Impact.
Gillison’s equipment is at work across America and in more than 70 countries worldwide. We’ve designed mission-specific solutions for everything from cutting coffee in Hawaii to harvesting pinecones for reforestation in British Columbia. That breadth of experience means we don’t just build machines—we combine brain power with engine power to help your operation succeed.
Let's Build Your Solution
Have a challenge that doesn’t fit neatly in a catalog? Let’s start a collaboration that turns your idea into a purpose-built solution.