2019 ICFF NYC

Adam Kamens
CEO
Amuneal Manufacturing


Design and innovation are in Adam Kamens’ blood. His parents founded Amuneal in 1965 as a fabricator of magnetic shields for applications in demanding technical markets, including cryogenics, aerospace, healthcare, and industrial electronics. Adam worked in the shop from a very young age, spending summers cataloguing products and packing boxes. As a young man, he continued to work at Amuneal during his college breaks, and graduated in 1993 from Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in psychology and minored in fine arts and glassblowing. After graduating, Adam simultaneously worked at Amuneal as a sales engineer, took classes in electrical engineering and shielding, and taught glassblowing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In 1996, he opened a glass studio and school in Philadelphia. The artistic collaboration there provided an ideal counterbalance to Amuneal’s engineering focus, and informed Adam’s vision to expand the company by capitalizing on its manufacturing capabilities to serve the design community. A few years later Amuneal debuted its first furniture line and subsequently increased its production exponentially to include furniture, retail store fixtures, custom lighting, architectural elements, public art, and design build projects. The company is still one of the country’s largest manufacturers of magnetic shields, but today more than half its business is in the field of custom fabrication. Adam became CEO of Amuneal in 2003. Under his leadership, Amuneal has transformed into a diverse operation, with metal fabricators, artists, engineers and designers working side by side. Amuneal currently has 150 employees in four locations (three in Philadelphia and one in Manhattan) and is recognized as an innovative and energetic fabrication partner to the architecture, design, retail, hospitality, and art communities.

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