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114 September 2013
Roll-Kraft hosts regional training
seminar for the tube and pipe
mill industry
ROLL-KRAFT recently conducted a
regional tube and pipe training seminar
in Ontario, Canada. The programme
had outstanding attendance from over
a dozen tube and pipe mill companies
throughout Canada and from the US.
The itinerary included new tube and
pipe training techniques for 2013 which
covered key areas of: mill integrity
and alignment; roll design (including
considerations for stainless steel);
proper tube and pipe mill set up; Copra
FEA RF software - FEA Finite Element
Analysis; and tooling maintenance
programmes.
Keynote speakers for the event were
Robert A Sladky, vice-president tube mill
engineering, and Bret Molnar, senior
technical advisor for Roll-Kraft. The
event also hosted a tour of Roll-Kraft’s
Canadian plant in Ontario.
Mr Sladky noted that the audience
was a good mix of personnel and
experience, which included owners,
presidents, supervisors, mill operators,
maintenance, tool room personnel,
and quality departments. Experience
levels ranged from those with decades
of experience to those who had literally
only days on the job.
Mr Molnar commented that the
feedback from the audience was
outstanding throughout the entire day,
even at the break and lunch times,
with a thirst for even more information
on tooling design for exotic materials
beyond stainless and titanium.
Roll-Kraft’s next regional seminars
will take place in Mentor, Ohio, at the
LaMalfa Holiday Inn. Each event will
be preceded by a tour of Roll-Kraft’s
headquarters. Besides the regional
seminars, Roll-Kraft sponsors in various
locations, 95 per cent of all tube and pipe
training and roll forming training is done
at the customer’s location, with their
personnel, on their mills. Learn more
about on-site tube and pipe and roll
forming training at Roll-Kraft’s website.
Roll-Kraft has its headquarters in
Mentor, Ohio, and maintains other
facilities in Frankfort, Illinois (Roll-Kraft
Northern), and Ontario, Canada (Roll-
Kraft Ltd).
Roll-Kraft – USA
Website:
T: 419-872-2364 F: 419-874-2825
26202 Glenwood Rd.
Perrysburg, OH 43551
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