Printed in The Canmaker
More than 100 canmaking professionals and their partners attended the 25th anniversary celebrations of Roeslein & Associates, the leading industry project integrator, at its newly expanded fabrication facility at Red Bud in Illinois yesterday.
Roeslein & Associates Project Coordinator Eric Valin, an Army National Guard Staff Sergeant who in February 2014 was called to active duty in Afghanistan, nominated Vice President of Operations Rob Campbell and Project Director Carl Rutherford for supporting employee participation in the National Guard and Reserve Force. In response, these Roeslein managers received Department of Defense, Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Patriot Awards recognizing support of employees who are also citizen soldiers.
Roeslein & Associates, a leading engineering, modular fabrication, and construction services company, launched its mobile application, NowFlection at MetPack in Essen, May 2014.
NowFlection allows plant managers to track plant production in real time from their smartphone or desktop computer. Plant production tracked ranges broadly from overall production at multiple canmaking facilities worldwide to the ability to monitor individual lines or pieces of equipment. Plant production reports are also available in PDF form through the application.
Much is being made about what will happen to the Chinese economy, which is set to grow in 2013 at the slowest pace in 23 years. The can making industry is watching with keen interest as the new Chinese administration faces slowing factory production and reduced investment. While some are cautious about the future in China and other portions of Asia, one of the leading systems integrators in the D&I (canmaking) industry believes the market will remain strong through 2014. Roeslein and Associates Inc. opened a fabrication and construction facility in Shanghai nearly three years ago to establish a local presence in a country it believes will eventually become the largest consumer market in the world. Per capita consumption in China is currently only about 17 cans per year, far below the 360 cans each person consumes in the United States annually. But Roeslein and Associates believe China’s 1.3 billion people and growing middle-class point to increased consumption.
Roeslein & Associates, leading engineering, modular fabrication and construction services company, was named as a finalist in the St Louis Regional Chamber’s Arcus Awards in 2013 for Multimodal Logistics and Advanced Manufacturing. Roeslein & Associates was one of six finalists in the category and is proud to have been a part of the awards that recognize businesses which lead the community in advancing the St. Louis region economically.
Roeslein & Associates announced that it will soon be employee-owned. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) set up by Roeslein will involve the majority owner, Rudi Roeslein, selling a portion of his interest in the company to its employees. The sale will be made via shares of company stock to employees as part of their retirement benefits program. The ESOP will become effective beginning 1 January 2014.
Roeslein & Associates announced today that the name of its wholly owned fabrication division in Red Bud, IL will change from Integrated Manufacturing Technologies (IMT) to Roeslein Modular Fabrication (RMF). The change comes as a response for the need to simplify the company’s overall branding message.
Although Roeslein & Associates, Inc. is a household name in the canmaking industry, it is less known within the markets to which it is new: pharmaceutical, oil and gas, refinery, power, chemical and petrochemical. Roeslein is earning a reputation for reduced start-up times and improved efficiencies using its signature approach, Modularization, Unitization and Preassembly. One example of this type of success is Roeslein’s development of an automated sump pump system for an East Coast nuclear facility in 2012.
Roeslein & Associates’ Modularized, Unitized, and Preassembled systems have been the implementation strategy of choice in the canmaking industry for decades. More recently, Roeslein has applied its reputation for on-time service and process fabrication expertise to a diverse range of other process industries. Roeslein now successfully employs its Modularized, Unitized, and Preassembled approach for clients in the oil & gas, refinery, petrochemical, power, chemical and pharmaceutical industries in addition to canmaking clients. As it has gained recognition within these new markets, clients have discovered that its signature methodology is customizable to their individual needs. In the oil and gas industry key personnel know all too well how moving work from the field to the controlled environment of a facility can significantly impact project scheduling and costs. For these companies, Roeslein offers extensive engineering expertise in addition to its fabrication capabilities.
For more than two decades, the experienced team of professionals at Roeslein & Associates has earned a global reputation for exceptional, on-time service and unparalleled quality among aluminum beverage container manufacturers. Roeslein’s Modularized, Unitized, and Preassembled systems are the standard within the canmaking industry. More recently, Roeslein has put that expertise and reputation to work in other industries including oil and gas, refinery, petrochemical, power, chemical and pharmaceutical.