Testimonials
Outstanding
Service and Performance
Shawn,
Just a heads up...and a hearty thanks. It is
obvious to us now
that we ran the 1/2" tooling you just turned around for us
on regrind
beyond its effective life. Since its return
yesterday, it was set up
last night and after a little
bobble on setup (less experienced
operator), it ran like a champ
all night and as of this moment is still
running strong. The turnaround
on this set of tooling for a rush order
with no notice was nothing short of
phenomenal.
Please express my sincerest thanks to all
involved.
Regards,
Ray Manning
Maintenance Manager
Tectron Tube- Division of Allied Tube &
Conduit
650 Heritage Road, DePere, WI 54115
Office: 920-336-1707 Internal: 132 Cell:
920-713-0779
Extremely
Impressed With Your Team
Jim,
I do not claim to be an industry
expert, but I deal with a multitude of vendors every day.
I continue to be extremely impressed with all our
interactions and everything you and your team has done
during this process of converting one of our roll forming
lines. Your teams' ability to cover complex issues in
plain English, not only instills a great deal of confidence
in your capabilities but is critical for those of us who are
not engineers but given the responsibility of managing a
project such as ours These are the attributes I look for
in key vendors and weigh heavily in my decision making
process.
Bruce Resnick
Operations Manager
Trakloc Midwest, LLC
6500 W. Calumet Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53223-4160
Selecting the
Right Supplier for a Major Project
Chuck, we at
NATGUN are very excited in starting this new project with
Roll Kraft. During our investigation for selecting the mill
supplier, it became extremely clear that Roll Kraft was head
and shoulders above the competition. Although there were
many factors involved in our decision to work with Roll
Form, the primary item that stands out to me is the high
level of professionalism we experienced from Shawn, yourself
and the Roll Kraft team particularly during my visit to your
facility. I feel confident this will continue throughout the
project.
Thank you!
Sal
Salvatore Marques P.E. Sr. V.P. Engineering
NATGUN Corporation
11 Teal Road
Wakefield, MA 01880
Phone 781-224-5169
Cell 617-283-0467
fax 781-224-5153
Replacement
Rolls Completed when Needed
John,
We received the replacement roll that
Roll-Kraft provided and I am pleased with the quality. I
appreciate the quick turn around and look forward to working
with you in the future. In addition to replacing damaged
rolls, you will be given the opportunity to quote any new
roll sets that we might need.
Thank you and have a good day,
Stan Bates
Tooling Engineer
Steelcase
Inc.
o.256.771.5447
f.
256.771.5455
c.256.434.0276
SBATES1@STEELCASE.COM
The
Best Quality and Service
I
wanted to let you know that these parts have been
received, installed and are working perfectly.
Thank you for the expeditious response
and execution!
Jay Osman
MWI Components
Quality Product
Dear Mrs.
Betts, Dear Mr. Cahill
I would
like to inform you that we used your rolls and all
was ok.
We
really thank you for your support (quality of your
rolls and delivery date).
Best
regards
Ccile Pichon | Purchaser
ArcelorMittal Hautmont
Tubular Products
Outstanding Service
John,
it is 11:00 am Thursday 4-23-2009 and the carbide
rolls have just arrived. Thank you and all involved
for this quick turnaround. Also thanks to Alan for
finding a suitable solution to the cracked roll.
Jim James
Gunter, CPE
Plant Engineering Manager
Ridg-U-Rak, Inc.
Outstanding
Engineering Support
Shawn - The revisions that the Roll Kraft
team made to our existing tooling worked out great. The goal
was to reduce the end flare on our open tube, and all of our
expectations were met. Our customers are extremely pleased
and so are we. Thanks for your efforts .
Bruce
Nystrom, pres
MWI Components
Awesome Product and Service
Hi Jim,
I want to thank you and everyone at Roll Kraft for the
wonderful service we received during the purchase and design
of our 3.5 inch roll set. You were more than helpful in
explaining our options before we made our decision to go
with your company. I was even more impressed when your
engineers took the time to communicate with us on a regular
basis during the design stages.They insured that
the rolls would work correctly from the start. We ran our
first tests last week and the finished product looks great.
Sincerely,
Giancarlo Talarico
Vice President
Quali-T-Group
Great Service - Flawlessly Executed
We had a rush Job that needed to get done in
a hurry to make an extremely important shipment. The needed
tooling had to be built and then same day shipped about 1500
miles from Roll-Kraft's facility to ours. Not only was it
done on time, but it arrived about an hour and a half
earlier than expected.
The entire
process was flawlessly executed and helped us get out of our
bind.
Josh Clark
Lifetime
Metals
Engineering
Production was down to a minimum
You and your
guy did an outstanding job. Thanks. Production was down to a
minimum which was what we wanted from the beginning. From
Hayes’ perspective, the job went very smooth. We appreciate
Roll-Kraft sending the personnel down here to do the
maintenance on the mill personally.
Jason Hayes
Production
Manager
Hayes
Manufacturing Company
(P) 318.487.0100
Plymouth
Tube Company - Training
The in-house
seminar and on-line training visits we have received through
this year have proved to be invaluable. Thanks to your
direction, things are better and continuing to improve.
Thank you,
again, for all you have helped us achieve.
Tim
Parmerlee
Weld Mill
VSL
Plymouth
Tube Company
Eupora, MS.
Split Roll
Cost Justification
We were
actually sending out our roll regrinds as a rule of thumb at
3,000,000 ft. With the new split & bolted design from
Roll-Kraft we have increased our footage perimeters to
10,000,000 ft. We are very pleased with this design and the
improvement with our regrind costs.
Robert Gay
Maintenance
Supervisor
Tectron Tube
Carbide Rolls are Non-Magnetic
I have been
using non-magnetic carbide rolls from Roll-Kraft in the
operation at Middletown Tube Works for the past ten years.
We like using this product for our weld rolls because of its
non magnetic properties and durability. The non-magnetic
carbide rolls from Roll Kraft don’t heat up as much as
regular tool steel and this helps us to limit our use of
weld roll cooling. We also use this product in the sizing
section to stop weld seam grooving and in other wear areas.
Non-magnetic carbide rolls from Roll Kraft help to ensure
that we continue to produce high quality tubing.
Duane Sulski
Corporate
Engineer
Middletown Tube Works
Welded Tube
Orwell on Carbide
At Welded
Tubes, carbide inserted mill rolls were the only rational
and logical choice for our high volume runners. Carbide has
reduced our need for frequent and costly regrinds and gives
us the opportunity to keep the tooling in house where it is
needed. We are seeing about ten times more than our normal
expected tool life before needing any regrind attention. The
surface quality is immensely improved by the reduced
friction given from carbide as opposed to the standard D-2
roll. The reduced friction helps to eliminate roll marks for
our plating critical customers. Carbide inserted mill
tooling has helped us in many ways to ensure our customers
are happy with the quality of product we have supplied them
and keeping the customers happy is what keeps our shop doors
open.
Kevin Barker
Plant
Manager
Welded Tubes, Inc.
Tungsten Carbide Cost Justification
We went from
two regrinds a year on a set of D2 tooling to no reworks for
six years running the carbide tooling, and we reduced
marking on the tube. We typically run (4) four million feet
of this product per year so the savings and benefits have
paid for the carbide many times over.
Kelvin Egner
Tube Mill
Production Manager
Shelby Welded Tube
Cost
Justification for
Tungsten Carbide Rolls vs. Split & Bolted
From the
first day that I started working at Ameristar Fence, I knew
I had to keep track of wear and tear of our tooling in our
facility as I had done in the past at Wheatland Tube, after
a period of time I set our tolerances at 2,000 tons of
maximum production on 1.315 and 1.660 O.D. tooling, and at
3,000 tons on larger tooling sets 1.900 to 2.875, which
happened to be pretty much the same as my past experience at
Wheatland Tube...after a period of time the topic of carbide
tooling was brought up during a meeting in which I stated
that in my past experience with my former employer it had
given us great results with longer production time and less
reworks, saving rework and shipping costs; after our meeting
I assured my boss that it would serve us greatly with
production and cost saving measures, so I was given the
green light to "try" a set of carbide tooling...after this
"trial" I am very happy to share our results with the tubing
industry...after acquisition of a 1.660 tooling set in
August 2006, which still has not been reworked as of May of
2008, the output of this particular tooling set has reached
9,256 tons (an increase of more than 300% in production)
with no sizing problems as of yet and very minimal or no
roll marks during production as well, while at the same time
keeping galv build up to a minimum or none whatsoever in
some cases, therefore making it safer for our operators by
keeping their hands out of harms way by removing build up
during production (on tooling)...after the success of our
trial with 1.660 tooling I was given the green light to
order a 2.017 sq. tooling set, maximum production on D-2
steel was set at 500 to 600 tons, after we started
production with our carbide tooling, our first rework took
part after 3147 tons on that particular tooling set, which
if you do the math, well, the results pretty much speak for
themselves; as impressive as these results were, the biggest
savings we made were with our acquisition of our .590 Sq.
carbide tooling set, we had been producing tube with split
and bolted D-2 steel tooling which had to be reworked after
3.5 to 4 million feet, after production with carbide
inserted tooling took place, our first rework of our carbide
tooling took place after 53,000,000 feet, this alone saved
us 13 reworks which would have been done with D-2 steel
tooling, so, after seeing the results we get out of D-2
steel vs. Carbide inserted tooling, the decision was simple
to slowly move over to carbide as tooling sets' lifespan
wears out, our inventory now includes 6 sets of carbide
inserted tooling with 2 more due in house within 3 months,
as good a result as D-2 steel has given us, carbide inserted
tooling by far has the best results bar none.
Jorge Palma
Tool Room
Tech.
Ameristar Fence
Products.
Great
Seminar and Key Performance Manual
Many times I
have been to seminars presented by engaging well-informed
speakers who had an answer for every situation. I would
leave feeling I had all the answers and all my frustration
and anxiety over the process or equipment had been relieved.
Once back on the plant floor and in the “real” world I would
soon learn that everything did not line up with the speakers
“perfect” world and I felt I had wasted valuable time with
little to show for it.
After a week
of applying what I learned I have to say this was not the
case with the Roll Kraft seminar. The speakers were engaging
and more than well informed. The minute I walked back onto
the plant floor I had my very detailed and easy to use
seminar manual open and applying what I had learned.
Every
question I had was answered thoroughly and I found in most
cases my concerns were similar to the other attendees and
there was a methodical and documented procedure to handle
the situation. Roll Kraft took a machine that at times could
be overwhelming and complex and hour by hour broke it down
into a process that just made sense.
Both Robert
and Bret are at the top of their game. The difference for me
was that they not only knew forming mill process but they
new in detail every brand of mill that was represented and
compared the similarities and the differences. Rather than
explain how a mill will work when tooling, coil and pm are
all they helped me to understand when (which is most of the
time) all these do not line up how to make a quality
product. In the long term they presented a pm procedure that
will insure the mill is operating, as it should. I feel I
have gained a lifetime of experience in one 8-hour class.
Because everything I learned follows the seminar manual
presented I never have to worry about forgetting some key
information that was passed along…it is documented.
Kevin L.
Goad
Handle
Operations Manager
The Libman Company
Great Job
Great Service
"I am the
maintenance supervisor for Paris Metal Products. We were in
need of repairing and replacing our roll sets on our roll
former. I knew they were in poor shape but needed to keep
the cost of repair down as much as possible. After talking
to a ROLL-KRAFT tec Shawn Mitchell he was able to give me
three options after inspection. We decided on option #2 this
option required some new sets and repair of the rest. The
turn over time was excellent and quality of work
outstanding. The reassembly went without a hitch and was one
of the smoothest ones I have done. I would recommend their
service to any manufacturer with roll forming operations."
Kerry
Littletown
Maintenance
Supervisor
Paris Metal Products
Superior Service
"We used the
on-site technical services in the installation and set up of
a complete “used” roll forming line. Their personnel were
experienced, hard working and very detail oriented. Their
approach was systematic and structured to identify and
resolve each installation and operational issue. They had
the full support of the team of technicians at Roll Kraft.
We were very pleased with the services we utilized."
John
Midwest Steel & Tube
Excellent Customer Service
Our
experience with Roll-Kraft is that it is a good quality and
reliable Company. The engineering is top of the line. The
company offers excellent customer service as well.
When we
ordered our first tooling with Roll-Kraft we simply sent
them a finished sample of the product along with the
drawings of the tooling and they were able to efficiently
engineer a quality tooling set with minimal questions.
Our
experience with Roll-Kraft has always been a positive one.
Salvador
Carranza
Air Louvers/Samson
Products
Knowledgeable & Professional Staff
Roll-Kraft
offers unparalleled technical support for our tube mills.
Both class room and on site training have increased operator
confidence and removed some of the mystery of tube mill
operations. Roll-Kraft’s technical notes have become the
standard of instruction for our mill operators and
engineering staff. Roll-Kraft provides rapid response to
quotations, technical questions and replacement parts. Every
shipment has been on time and every phone call has been
handled by courteous, knowledgeable and professional staff.
Roll-Kraft has earned the right to be our supplier of choice
for mill tooling at all of our facilities worldwide.
Randall
Bradley
Director,
Manufacturing Engineering
Evapco Corporation
Great Rolls
and Prompt Service
Hi Ovidiu,
Everything
is fine, I received the reconditioned rolls yesterday and it
sure did relieve the pressure that we were faced with.
Thanks for your prompt and efficient service, Gary also said
to let you know that your efforts to help us out was greatly
appreciated by him and it is good to know that we are
dealing an excellent service provider.
Cored Wire
Dept. Manager,
Lincoln Electric Co. Canada
Tooling Optimization
Joe McGee
phoned to say their customer was very impressed with the way
we handled a situation they had. Their customer needed some
adjustments to the tooling we provided. Bret was visiting at
the time and immediately contacted the Roll-Kraft engineers
to revise the design and get the tooling they needed. This
was a new part for this customer and they needed production
at a high volume. Joe said, “They didn’t want to take a
chance with someone else,” and, “They felt comfortable with
Roll-Kraft.” Within a few days the re-designed tooling was
on-site and doing its job.
Joe McGee
Lock Joint Tube
Regrinds at their best
Tom Gerken
from Boyce Industries in Chicago called to say they finally
setup the new reshape tooling we manufactured at Roll-Kraft
and ran production last week – says the reshape tooling
worked out very well and mentioned the first part out of the
Ardcor F-10 machine was acceptable. Tom just wanted to call
and let us know we did a great job. Great job guys!!
Tom Gerken
Boyce Industries
Fantastic Roll Former
"John, here
is a photo of the machines, now finished as I said I would
send to you. I am very impressed by the quality of your
roll-formers."
Bruce
Overgard
Balance Systems, Inc.
Excellent Sales Representatives
Hello
Soonarie,
I received
the rolls yesterday. You have been nothing but helpful and
this was the best roll buying experience I have ever been
involved in. Thank you very much for your help and efforts!
I will
definitely be talking to you in the future.
Israel
Century Tube
Corporation
Excellent Service
To
Roll-Kraft
Thank you
all very much for the prompt service! Plus Thank you very
much for the phone call this pm confirming UPS overnight
shipment / letting me know replacement roll was in-house.
Tracked it down and just finished installation - its looking
fine and we are back in business. Thanks again for the
excellent service!
David Brigl
Raynor
Garage Doors
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