Great Lakes Technologies, Inc / WEN
ManufacturingIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Great Lakes Technologies, Inc., doing business as WEN, is a manufacturing company headquartered at 1101 Wasemann Drive, West Dundee, Illinois 60118, United States. The business has a long-standing focus on power tools, with WEN founded by Nick Anton in 1951 to integrate electricity with tool design. Through its research and development efforts, the company contributed to the development of several common tools, including chainsaws, electric soldering guns, electric jigsaws, electric engravers, and sharpening tools such as knife and wet wheel sharpeners, and it helped pioneer random orbital technology used in many polishers, waxers, and buffers. The organization employs 11-50 people and maintains a web presence at wenproducts.com. Reported annual revenue is in the range of $10 million to $25 million.