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 presented - 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 corporate 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 seminars included
a working-model mill with actual demonstrations
projected on-screen for clear observation 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, alignment, setup, and tooling
maintenance. This enables people to perform their
duties in a predictable, repeatable fashion; and by
extension, it minimizes changeover 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
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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, continues to surge.
In fact, programming volume in 2019 has far
surpassed all previous years in Sladky’s decades-
long career, and 2020 programming shows no
signs of slowing down.
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