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Roll-Kraft Comes Through Again!
Thanks for quickly engineering and manufacturing the .562 OD EF1T&B rolls for our run today. The rolls have been on the mill since noon and are still running now!!
Greatly appreciate coming through for us….again! Please pass on this word of THANKS to anyone that I may have missed.
Steve Zienka
Special Projects Manager
Welded Tubes, Inc.
As our current single source supplier of tooling and regrinds with all of our LJT plants, we appreciate you and your team for what you provide LJT on tooling and support. Please relay to your employees that we thoroughly appreciate their sacrifices in order for us to be successful in manufacturing tubing for our customers. With the partnership that Roll-Kraft and LJT has we have a competitive edge over our competition. Keep up the good work, and thanks again for your helping with this request. Enjoy your weekend!
Stephen Herndon
Plant Manager – Lock Joint Tube TN
Appreciation for Excellent Service
I just wanted to drop you a note to express my appreciation for the excellent service that we experienced from your organization recently.
We have received all of our new tooling now….thank you. But I thought it worth mentioning that the individual efforts of people like Frank Lowery and Diane Moyers made the entire process so much easier for us. In fact, I know that we would have had the tooling a lot sooner if it were not for us holding things up.
Both Frank and Diane responded to everything we needed with quick professional courtesy.
Well done! Thanks again.
Mike Carroll
Business Development Manager
Trowel Trades Accessories Ltd.
Customer in Paris Very Satisfied with Service
We just left the plant at 7:30pm, Matt was great in helping us get up and running today. Very professional . He passed along needed setup information to the maintenance staff.
Charlie Abens
Lyon Workspace Products
Valuable and Well Done!
Bret,
I want to thank you and Ivan for the day spent at Major Metals Company. Your review of our equipment and processes was helpful and beneficial for the quality of our products!
Your teaching of the tooling methodology and processes was valuable and well done!
Thank you,
Joe Yeager
Major Metals Company
Excellent Work by Robert and Your Team!
Sanjay and Chuck,
I’d like to give you some feedback on our 2 days last week with Robert. We spent the first day conducting the training session, and the 2nd day out on the floor of our South Bend plants.
My position is Exec VP of Operations for our group of companies. For Lock Joint Tube, I’ve been tasked with building a robust training program. Roberts class was excellent. For me, it was a great overview of proper methods, with backup explanation of the whole process. For many of our newer operators, it was their first formal training. Robert and I met one of these guys the following day on the plant floor… he was very excited and appreciative about the class. For the handful of experienced operators, the class triggered some valuable discussions.
Having read Roberts follow-up report this morning, we have a host of issues to address, that will certainly provide considerable improvement to our process. We now have a baseline to build out our ongoing training. In the past, Robert has made recommendations that weren’t necessarily acted upon… I’m going to work to implement his ideas.
Thanks for the excellent work by Robert and your team!
Billy Lerman
EVP Operations
Lerman Industries
Very Impressed with Tube Mill Seminar
Robert and Shawn,
I wanted to follow up with you guys on our tube seminar here at Ryerson, Inc. All of the feedback this time about the seminar was very impressive and provided great information on the operation as well as helping a lot of our new folks understand the pros/cons of a mill. At this point, all attendees have spoken as if they were "VERY" impressed with the seminar.
You did a "GREAT" job as usual on this!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am looking forward to working with you to become more partners in our mill needs on tooling. Hope to hear from you soon!!
Ronald Pruitt
Operation Manager
Fantastic Job: Tooling Performed Extremely Well
Dave,
I would imagine that you may know already, but the test out on the tooling went extremely well. There was just one very minor issue that needs to be dealt with, but it was nearly perfect. As usual your team did a fantastic job on this seemingly complicated package (at least complicated to me), and it performed exactly as we had hoped.
Myself and my team that was working on this project really enjoyed meeting and working with Frank Lowery, and I know that I learned quite a bit from him while he was here and he made it very easy to understand. We really appreciate the time that he took to talk to many of my key personnel about some of the finer points of proper setups. The quality of your company’s product, service and the great people that are on your team are just some of the reasons that the tooling in this facility is and will continue to be predominantly Roll-Kraft. I look forward to our next opportunity to work together; Roll-Kraft is welcome here any time.
Thanks again for everything.
Todd McCrite
Operations Manager (Pittsburg)
Roll-Kraft Comes Through Again
Shawn,
I just want to personally "Thank you" for Roll-Kraft getting this done. My head was spinning on this one and I was getting heat, also, from above.
Way to come through again, as always.
Thanks
Chris
GL Precision Tube, Inc.
No Other Company I’d Rather Work with for Our Tooling Needs
I appreciate all that you and your team have done for us. Everyone at Roll-Kraft is a pleasure to work with and has gone out of their way on many occasions to take care of us, from answering many of my weird questions regarding tooling, to getting parts made when we are in a pinch. I can’t think of any other company that I would rather work with when it comes to our tooling needs than Roll-Kraft.
Roll-Kraft Customer
6-18-15
Roll-Kraft Training Benefits Wide Experience Level
We would like to extend a thank you to yourself, Dave, and Roll-Kraft for the professional manner in which you conduct this in depth training.
There was a wide experience level among our participants, and I believe that all of them benefited from the level of training provided, even the 20+ year rollform veterans.
Your knowledge of the material, and willingness to candidly explain in detail was much appreciated!
Mike Collins
Operations Director
ClarkDietrich
Roll-Kraft Great to Work with on First Time Roll Form Tooling Purchase
Chaz,
This was my first experience purchasing roll form tooling and it was a pleasure doing business with Roll-Kraft. From the development process all the way through run-off and delivery, everyone was great to work with. Please convey my appreciation to everyone I worked with on this project.
Yours,
Todd Jenkins
Kinedyne, Corp.
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Roll-Kraft Helps Us Avert Line Shutdown
Hi Ovidiu,
Once again, you have proved how much of a valued business associate Roll-Kraft is to our operations.
We received the EW1852-30 reconditioned roll this morning, averting what could have been a potential line shutdown situation.
Thanks to you and your team for such reliable support, much appreciated.
Regards,
Steve Harry,
Cored Wire Manager
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Quick Response and Great Product
To All,
I would like to thank Roll-Kraft for your quick response in getting NTI the 3-sets of Roll Dies that I just received. I was able to install them yesterday and they as always worked great.
John Mergel
Newman Technology, Inc.
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Tooling looking good and looking forward to next project
John/Gary,
FYI, we installed the Lower Ridge Form Roll tooling this past Friday and I just wanted you to know that everything is looking good with the tooling.
The ridges are sharp, well defined and we want to thank you for doing such a good job with this project.
Now, we would like to move forward with the next part and really start to move on getting the tooling defined and some quotes so I can get the approvals for the Roll Forming portion.
Thanks for everything you have done so far and I am looking forward to working with you on this project.
Rob Wenrich
Manufacturing Engineer
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Roll-Kraft’s latest tube and pipe mill training seminar was held on October 24, 2023 at the Waverly, Nebraska Venue location.
Mill operators, maintenance supervisors, engineers, tool room personnel and management will all benefit from the program by learning new skills & produce a better quality product in less time.
Robert's extensive expertise in the tubing industry spans over five decades, including 33 years of service at Roll-Kraft.