The Åkers group operates three plants in Pennsylvania, USA, under the leadership of Åkers National Roll Company.
Avonmore is a modern manufacturer of world class, advanced metal technology rolls for hot and cold strip mills through out North America, Asia and European markets. The Avonmore plant with approximately 250 employees produces 24,000 tons of standard and specialty rolls, per year. The production facilities amounts to 28,789 m².
Hyde Park is a specialist manufacturing facility that produces specialist blanks for Åkers roll products. The plant employs approximately 61 people and its overall production facilities cover an area of 4,700 m².
Vertical Seal Company situated in Pleasantville manufactures new and reconditioned bearings, bushings, sleeves, parts for bearing windows, pension stands, gib blocks and miscellaneous equipment used in the ferrous and non-ferrous rolling mills throughout North and South America.
Åkers National Roll Co. in Avonmore
Avonmore plant
- Roll foundry with 1 vertical centrifugal casting machine capable
of casting up to 51 inches (1,295 mm) in diameter
- Heat treatment center consisting of 2 arc furnaces, 17 car type furnaces,
7 hood type furnaces, 4 quenching machines, 1 caster
- Machine shop with 5 grinders, 13 lathes, 2 ingersoll duplex mills,
3 centering machines
Hyde Park plant
- Roll foundry casting hot and cold mill rolls up to 40 inches (1,016 mm) in
diameter for further processing at the Avonmore plant
- 1 vertical centrifugal casting machine and 3 induction melting furnaces
Vertical Seal plant
- 1 horizontal casting machine, numerous vertical and horizontal boring
machines, milling machines, lathes, grinders and spray welding equipment
- 1 vertical CNC grinder for precision grinding of sleeves that assures
finish grind wall thickness of keys and keyless sleeves to tolerances within
0.0002'' of rotational accuracy
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