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Top Workplaces: Super Radiator Coils wins third place for large company

Thu, 08 May 2025 14:41:47 GMT

Top Workplaces: Super Radiator Coils wins third place for large company

Super Radiator Coils is a family-owned engineering and manufacturing business that prides itself on good communication, attention to detail and excellent service. The company makes coils and other products for a variety of industries and has locations in Minnesota, Arizona and Virginia.

Matt Holland, Vice President, Richmond branch

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Super Radiator Coils to Expand Operations in Chesterfield County

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:32:12 GMT

Heat exchanger manufacturer to invest $22 million, creating 160 new jobs

RICHMOND, VA — Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that Super Radiator Coils, a family-owned engineering and manufacturing company, will invest $22 million to expand its operations in Chesterfield County. The company will add approximately 80,000 square feet to its existing facility and upgrade machinery, creating 160 new jobs. Virginia successfully competed with Minnesota and Arizona for the project.

“This expansion builds on a 44-year history of Super Radiator Coils in the Commonwealth and strengthens Virginia's position as a leader in advanced manufacturing,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin. “Virginia's job growth in the manufacturing sector and business climate continue to thrive, thanks to announcements like this, and my administration is proud to support Super Radiator Coils' continued growth and success.”

“This investment in Chesterfield County truly underscores Virginia's advantages for manufacturers,” said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Caren Merrick. “By expanding their footprint in the Commonwealth, Super Radiator Coils is highlighting the skilled workforce and strategic location that Central Virginia offers. We look forward to their continued contributions to Virginia's thriving advanced manufacturing industry.”

“I’m hugely proud of the growth of our Chesterfield facility over the last 40+ years,” said Super Radiator Coils President and CEO Rob Holt. “And this latest expansion will allow us to continue our mission of unleashing the power of thermodynamics to improve our world. We take our role as a growing central Virginia employer seriously and can’t wait to see the impact of this latest growth on our ability to better support our customers, our community, and the men and women of our growing workforce.”

“I am excited to see Super Radiator Coils’ continued investment in Chesterfield County, which will create valuable jobs and further enhance the region’s reputation in advanced manufacturing,” said Senator Glen Sturtevant. “This expansion is a testament to the strength of our local workforce and the commitment of companies like Super Radiator Coils to Virginia’s economic future.”

“I want to congratulate Super Radiator Coils on their expansion in Chesterfield County,” said Delegate Michael Jones. “This investment is a great boost for our local economy and demonstrates the strength of our workforce. We are committed to supporting initiatives that create jobs and foster business growth in our region. Our challenge is to ensure that we are preparing the next generation to meet our workforce demands.”

“Since 1987, the Holt family has grown and developed a world-class company here in Chesterfield, and we are excited to partner with them on their largest expansion to date,” said Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors Chairman James Holland. “Super Radiator Coils has been recognized as a top regional employer for many years, and their continued success and growth have been built with a talented workforce. Their commitment to excellence is evident in the innovative solutions they provide to companies worldwide, and we congratulate them on this exciting expansion.”

Super Radiator Coils manufactures heat exchangers and specialty coils for industries such as power generation, commercial and industrial HVAC, data center cooling, and the military, among others. Headquartered in Minnesota, SRC also has operations in Phoenix and Chesterfield County. The Chesterfield facility, which employs roughly 400 individuals of varying disciplines and experience levels, has been named a Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace each of the last six years. This is the facility’s fourth expansion during its 44 years in Chesterfield, the most recent of which occurred in 2022.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Chesterfield County to secure the project for Virginia. Governor Youngkin approved a $610,000 grant from the Commonwealth's Opportunity Fund to assist Chesterfield County with the project.

Support for Super Radiator Coils' job creation will be provided through the Virginia Talent Accelerator Program, ranked the No. 1 Customized Workforce Training Program in the United States by Business Facilities in 2024. The program, created by VEDP in collaboration with higher education partners, accelerates new facility startups through the direct delivery of recruitment and training services that are fully customized to a company’s unique products, processes, equipment, standards and culture. All program services are provided at no cost to qualified new and expanding companies as an incentive for job creation.

Super Radiator Coils will expand its operations at 451 Southlake Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23236.

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Mead Metals Installs CTL Line from Formtek-Maine

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:29:35 GMT

Mead Metals Installs CTL Line from Formtek-Maine

By Metal Center News Staff on Jul 29, 2024

Formtek-Maine shipped a Cut-to-Length and Recoiling Line for processing high-strength low-alloy steel to Mead Metals. The St. Paul, Minn.-based service center specializes in providing coils of specialty, rare and exotic metals in small quantities.

The Formtek-Maine system had to be robust enough to uncoil and straighten coils ranging from 0.135 inches thick at 80,000-psi yield to 0.070 inches at 160,000-psi yield and at line speeds approaching 200 fpm.

The system includes the 4R series stock reel with powered side guide rollers to prevent telescoping of coils and an adjustable sub-base to adjust coil alignment to ensure centered coils.

The coil processor consists of a hold-down peeler station with clamping thread-up table; a model HDC straightener head with individual roll adjustment; a combination edge conditioner/camber compensator; a 2-roll ServoMax servo feed with cartridge-style twist compensator; and hydraulic cutoff shear.

The fixed runout table has a rolling base to manually move the table in line for running in cut-to-length mode, or to move out of line when recoiling. A fixed edge is provided on the table for a quick camber check on cut parts. The recoiler has a full-radius drum mandrel with a manually actuated lead edge locking device on one arm and clearance for fork truck tines cut into the arms to allow loading or unloading of coils. The over-arm roller has a quick release mechanism to allow easy removal of the roller.

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Mead Metals has Room to Grow in Shoreview

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:04:53 GMT

Mead Metals completed a 28,000-square-foot expansion to its Shoreview location

Mead Metals completed a 28,000-square-foot expansion to its Shoreview location, doubling its warehouse space while installing air conditioning for the entire building and improving production efficiencies and employee safety that accompanied the extra space and improved traffic flow.

“We are excited and proud of our abilities after the expansion,” said Mead President Sandy Crawford. “And we are happy to be in Shoreview, as I cannot imagine a city that could be more supportive and helpful to a business with such a project.”

Over the last two years, the metals industry has been overwhelmed with pent-up demand from the COVID-19 pandemic and raw material shortages. Mead has been extremely busy, running at unprecedented levels, with their existing warehouse not capable of holding enough raw materials to meet that demand. Company ownership knew it needed more warehouse space, but its facility was landlocked. The City of Shoreview was instrumental in assisting Mead with purchasing property immediately behind their facility and with Tax Increment Financing to make the project a reality.

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Construction on the $5 million project began in May 2021 and was completed in December 2021, on time and under budget. Crawford pointed to the ability of the construction company, DJ Kranz, to order raw materials in March 2021 before the supply chain issues became serious.

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Firm logs half-century of metal manufacturing

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:13:39 GMT

SHOREVIEW - A manufacturer of stamped metal parts celebrated its 50th anniversary last week with an open house

Mead Metals President John Allyn said business is good enough at the 34-employee firm that sales should set a record this year at close to $25 million. Mead components are now found in end products in the automotive, telecommunications, munitions, medical electronics and even fishing lure industries. Wide-ranging examples of those products: washers for nuts and bolts and motherboards for ATM machines.

Allyn attributed Mead's longevity to its service and "willingness to carry inventory for customers.

"(The challenge) is to adapt yourself to the ebbs and flows of economic conditions," he said. "The reward has been to see us succeed and grow."

According to Mead PR representative Richard L. Parrish, the company was founded in 1961 in a small Minneapolis warehouse by Bruce Osborne ___ and another entrepreneur who inventoried metals that were resold to manufacturers and fabricators. Company lore says they named the company after the honey-based wine, mead, they were drinking in a meeting at the time.

After many fits and starts, the founders realized they couldn't compete with larger companies that stocked huge rolls of steel, copper and other metals. That's when they got into a niche market for small quantities of metals needed by certain regional companies. In their favor, Allyn said: Demand in the area wasn't and still isn't major enough to attract larger copper, brass and steel manufacturers. The company moved from Minneapolis to Shoreview in 1976.

These days, 75 percent of Mead's sales come from the seven-county metro area; 20 percent come from elsewhere across the U.S. and 5 percent come from overseas.

The firm has also added new metals and services including slitting, cutting, edge rolling and shearing for its approximately 1,000 customers. The privately held company hovered around $4 million in sales for years, Parrish said, until it was bought by Allyn, company chairman Jon Holt and two other shareholders in 1993. The original founders died some years ago.

"Jon had the vision and saw it (Mead) could be grown significantly in short order," noted Allyn of the company purchase.

Mead , located at 555 Cardigan Rd., is now one of the largest providers of small quantities of metals and the third-largest supplier of beryllium copper in the nation, Parrish said. It was ISO 9000-certified in 1998 and every year since. In 1999, it more than doubled its square footage from 24,000 to 49,000.

"I have found the city to be very cooperative," Allyn said of that construction project. "With every issue there is in real estate and city and zoning regulations, I found the city was very supportive of what we wanted to do. Therefore, we made the decision to stay here as opposed to buying more land further out."

Allyn, a Plymouth resident who was formerly vice president of operations at Despatch Industries in Lakeville, said Mead has adapted to increased demand for electrically conducive metals such as copper, bronze, and beryllium copper. It has also adjusted to the demand for smaller pieces because of a trend toward miniaturization.

He said the firm's five-year plan calls for growth of the base business and expansion, possibly into new markets. Mead just added three employees in the past 90 days but has no immediate plans to hire more.

Shoreview Mayor Sandy Martin declared Sept. 22 "Mead Metals Appreciation Day" and presented a plaque in honor of the company's anniversary.

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