MOSCOW (MRC) -- The Palmyra, N.Y.-based custom manufacturer of specialty metal and high-performance plastic products has acquired RotaDyne Corp.’s engineered products division for an undisclosed amount, as per Plasticsnews.
The division, based in Spencerport, N.Y., will bring a range of complementary manufacturing services to Jrlon. The unit consists of 33 employees and produces compression molded elastomers, small rubber rollers and offers precision CNC machining.
Jrlon started as a high-performance plastics processor, mainly fluoropolymer materials, and has added other plastic materials to its portfolio. Now half of its business is within the metal worlds. Its capabilities include compression and injection molding, CNC machining, powder coating and assembly.
Brandon Redmond, co-owner and chief operating officer of Jrlon, said bringing rubber under its roof was the next logical step.
“We’ve steered clear of rubber in the past mostly because we just didn’t have the expertise on hand in the elastomer world,” he said. “We had already expanded into other materials, but at this point it’s logically the next step to take. We’ve already gotten heavily into the metals and other plastics, so rubber at some point was likely to follow.
“Any time you’re able to offer your customers a more diverse range of processes or products, you’re a more valuable supplier. One of the things we’ve always been able to sell to our customers is, because we have so many different processes under one roof, we’ve had customers be able to eliminate multiple other vendors by adding us as a vendor.”
Redmond said RotaDyne had been a customer of Jrlon’s for more than 20 years, so there was a familiarity between the two operations. So much so that when the Spencerport site got word that RotaDyne had put it up for sale, Redmond said the facility leadership reached out to Jrlon. He said it didn’t take long for both parties to see the deal as a good fit.
“We view this as an opportunity to supply them the support to really fulfill the potential that they had,” he said. “We view this as a location that’s going to expand and grow. I anticipate over the next several years adding multiple jobs to that facility as we fill capacity.”
Jrlon operates out of a 100,000-square-foot site in Palmyra with 90 employees. The facility consists of 85 CNC machines, 12 compression molding presses (two fully automatic) and five injection molding machines.
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