May 2019 Volume 1

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highway construction, energy aerospace and recycling and consumer industries.

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automotive, light and heavy truck, agriculture, and energy. The company also offers a variety of other metal processing services including phosphate coating, shot blast cleaning, cutting and testing. NitroSteel is the only domestic provider of FNC bars and tubes in the 13-24’ range. The company’s process is a “green” alternative to chrome, providing improved wear resistance, better lubrication retention, dent resistance, increased service life, and can last up to three times longer. NitroSteel was nominated for the Presidential Green Awards in 2008. Al-Fe Heat Treating is the largest commercial aluminum heat treating company in the United States with four plants in Defiance, Ohio, Saginaw, Michigan, Wadsworth, Indiana, and Wabash, Indiana. Al-Fe is the premier resource for the most demanding heat treat applications including continuous or drop-bottom processing, precision air quench for distortion control, hyperquench for Aerospace specifications or testing/inspection services. Premier Thermal Solutions and its subsidiary locations are certified with IATF 16949:2016 (Lansing, Canton, Mt. Hope and North Vernon), ISO 14001:2015 (Atmosphere Annealing) and ISO9001:2015 (NitroSteel). Learn more about Premier Thermal Solutions at www. premierthermal.com. Rimrockwas founded in1956byFranzStoneasasupplier of spray equipment to foundries, glass and rubber molders and extruders. Stone chose the Rimrock name as a tribute to his grandfather, whose love of geology and the Grand Canyon inspired the nickname “Rimrock.” The company name is also a play on words honoring the founder’s last name. Today, as an automation leader in the die casting, foundry and forging industries, they anticipate customers’ needs with professional consultants and industry-leading experts and deliver elite total automation products and services to keep production progressing forward all day. Focused on outstanding customer service, RimrockCorporation supplies user-friendly, cutting edge total automation technology and designs to help their customers reduce production costs and produce value added products.

Premier Thermal Solutions Premier Thermal Solutions is the leading provider for metal heat treating and offers commercial metal processing services including normalize, atmosphere normalize, isothermal anneal, oil quench & temper, atmosphere oil quench & temper, polymer quench and temper and Spheroidize anneal. Some of the industries they serve are automotive, energy, rail, aviation, agriculture, aviation, heavy trucks andwire rope. Premier Thermal Solutions’ technical experts are committed to offering quality products and providing flexible and quick turnaround times, processing complex orders with precision and exceeding customers’ needs and expectations. The company was established in 1978 in Lansing, Michigan. It was acquired in 2017 by Z Capital Partners, LLC, a leading alternative asset management firm, and wholly owns three subsidiaries, Atmosphere Annealing, NitroSteel and the latest company Al-Fe, acquired in October 2018. Atmosphere Annealing has more than 400,000 tons of installed heat treating capacity including annealing, ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC), normalizing, and quench & temper processing for various industries, including RimrockCorporation Rimrock Corporation, or Rimrock, manufactures and integrates industrial automation automatic lubrication systems and robots and has installed more than 8,200 robots globally. Products include automatic lubrication systems, ladles, sprayers, extractors, finishing equipment, and turnkey ABB robotic systems, as well as spray nozzles/guns, manifolds, liquid systems, and proportioners. These can extend die life and increase throughput. The company expanded its integration capabilities to include the design, manufacture, and installation of ABB, FANCU, Motoman, and Gudel robot based systems.

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