Spira Manufacturing Corporation

Spira Manufacturing Corporation, located in San Fernando, California, has been serving the community with quality engineered Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI) shielding gaskets and products since 1978.

Our company thrives on maintaining honest, lasting relationships with customers to provide innovative EMI gasket design. We help customers choose products that are ideally suited for their product environment, such as salt fog on an aircraft carrier.

Our unique, patented spiral EMI gasket is the gold standard in the industry and is known for its reliability and integrity– just like our company. Our staff is happily waiting to assist and educate you to choose the right EMI gaskets and products for your designs. Our entire family of exceptional EMI products, including EMI/RFI shielding gaskets, shielded honeycomb filters, and other products, are expertly crafted. Designed to last the life of a system, we offer superior quality, reliability and consistency in manufacturing our gaskets with an extraordinarily high quality rating: 99.85%.

The strength of Spira lies in our exceptional products, on-time delivery, superior customer service, and expert technical support. Our customer driven design leads the way for the industry to specifically meet the needs of the marketplace that other products cannot fulfill.

Spira’s commitment to quality is demonstrated through our ISO-9001 and AS9100 certifications. Our products also meet requirements including REACH, ITAR, RoHS, DFAR, FCC, EC, HIRF, TEMPEST & more of RoHS, DFAR, and others. All our products are proudly made in the USA.

HISTORY

GEORGE M. KUNKEL, FOUNDER & CEO

Founded by design engineer George Kunkel to address a need that wasn’t being fulfilled, George and his team designed, created and manufactured the patented spiral EMI gasket, along with a collection of other EMI shielding products. George has been a design engineer for 50 years, and for the last 40 years he has associated with EMI/RFI research and involved in EMC System Design. Since founding Spira Manufacturing Corporation in 1978, George continues to lead our company in innovation, integrity, and exceptional quality production of the patented Spiral EMI Gasket.

His credentials and accomplishments include:

• BS. and MS. degrees in Engineering from UCLA
• Has been on the academic staff at UCLA, teaching several courses on applied electromagnetic theory.
• Held the position of chairman of the Technical Committee on Interference Control of the EMC Society of the IEEE for seventeen years.
• Extremely active within the EMI/RFI and electromagnetic industry and has authored and presented over a 100 papers internationally, discussing various aspects of EMC system design.
• Numerous patents on components used for EMC compliance.
• Achievements have been recognized in Marquis’ Who’s Who in: The West, America, The World, and Finance & Industry.