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Roll-Kraft
Roll-Kraft meets the Covid-19 crisis in manufacturing
Roll-Kraft is open for business and available to provide tooling to companies that are increasing their efforts to meet the challenge during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Roll-Kraft manufactures tooling for the tube and pipe and roll form industry.
Several customers have turned to Roll-Kraft for assistance in re-tool- ing, in order to manufacture prod- ucts to meet the current needs of the community. Welded Tubes, Inc., in Ohio, is one such company.
Welded Tubes was recently awarded a significant amount of business to manufacture hospital beds in response to the demands in
various COVID-19 hotspots. At the onset of manufacturing, it was determined that their mill needed an additional tooling pass to aid in production. Joe Frandanisa, Welded Tubes company president commented, “We contacted Roll- Kraft, and in less than eight hours, Roll-Kraft provided the necessary tooling to keep our production running at full capacity and enable us to fill this tremendous need. On behalf of our entire Welded Tubes team, I want to express our thanks to Roll-Kraft for its unbelievable service and support.”
Roll-Kraft is exceptionally prepared to aid in the current situation.
With an experienced engineering team, and multiple locations total- ing more than fifty CNC (computer- ized numerical control) machines, customers can rely on Roll-Kraft to supply tooling to meet the current need. In addition, Roll-Kraft pro- vides the only performance guaran- tee in the industry.
Roll-Kraft
8901 Tyler Blvd OH 44060 Mentor USA
Tel: +1440205 3100 Fax: +1440205 3110
kgehrisch@roll-kraft.com www.roll-kraft.com
Roll-Kraft’s regional seminars continue to draw strong attendance
Roll-Kraft recently hosted its annual regional tube and pipe and roll forming training seminars at the LaMalfa Conference Center in Mentor, Ohio. The venue expanded to two ballrooms this year to accommodate over 100 attendees from nearly 50 companies from all over North America.
Each year, two seminars are pre- sented - one for the tube and pipe mill industry, and one for the roll form industry. As in previous years, both seminars included tours of Roll-Kraft’s state-of-the-art corpo- rate facility in Mentor, Ohio.
Robert A. Sladky, Vice President of Tube Mill Engineering for Roll- Kraft, organized the event and also
served as a speaker for each of the two-day programs. He was joined by other presenters, Dave Rostocil and Bret Molnar, Senior Technical Performance Specialists. The semi- nars included a working-model mill with actual demonstrations pro- jected on-screen for clear obser- vation of the step-by step process.
Sladky said, “The primary focus of these sessions, as well as our in-house training sessions, is to develop a standard for all to follow in the areas of mill integrity, align- ment, setup, and tooling main- tenance. This enables people to perform their duties in a predict- able, repeatable fashion; and by extension, it minimizes changeo-
ver and downtime while reducing scrap and increasing production and profits.”
Past attendees of the regional tube and pipe and roll form training seminars represented a broad mix of operators, maintenance, quality, supervisors, and management. This year, a large majority of attendees were new to the industry, which reflects a transition from veteran operators to a new generation.
Attendance at this year’s regional seminars, as well as demand for Roll-Kraft’s in-house programs and on-site training sessions, contin- ues to surge. In fact, programming volume in 2019 has far surpassed all previous years in Sladky’s dec-
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