About Electro Abrasives
Company History
- Founder: Allan D. Ramming
- 1919 - Founding of Electro Refractories and Alloys Corporation
- 1949 - Addition of Abrasives Division to supply higher quality raw materials to Grinding Wheel and Refractory plants than was currently available.
- 1966 - New and innovative Crushing Plant completed utilizing latest technology in making dense Silicon Carbide.
- 1968 - Ferro Corp. buys Electro Refractories and Abrasives.
- 1979 - Powder Plant completed using proprietary and breakthrough technologies.
- 1987 - Management Buyout of Abrasives Division from Ferro with all personnel remaining with us.
- 1988 - Addition of much equipment for wet processing of silicon carbide powders to vastly improve quality. Also many improvements to Crushing Plant.
- 1990 - New custom designed Q.C. Software system installed for granular materials documentation.
- 1992-93 - Revision of Quality System to integrate SPC and ISO-9000 guidelines.
- 1994 - Expansion of new Boron Carbide Powder Plant double capacity.
- 1995 - Addition of new Boron Carbide Plant in January. Addition of new Green Silicon carbide Powder Plant in December.
- 1999 - FEPA sizes manufactured on a full-time basis in Green Silicon Carbide.
- 2000 - New raw material evaluation system designed for Powders which has upgraded all raw material specifications. Only the highest quality raw material suppliers are on our approved suppliers list.
- 2001 - New larger Powders Lab added, including Malvern laser particle size analyzer.
- 2004 - Modernized Macrolab with Malvern laser particle size analyzer with Dry Powder Feeder.
Profile
- Crushing Plant was designed for the manufacture of 12,000 tons/annum high density, 98.5% purity Silicon Carbide, 99.5% Green Silicon Carbide & Boron Carbide capacities are in addition.
- Employees on a profit sharing system.
- Key supervisors have company stock. Non-union shop with performance flexibility.
- Our company is of modest size, flexible, efficient and able to custom grade and adapt to customer's needs.
- Financially very strong with a Dunn & Bradstreet 3A1 Rating.
We believe in continual improvement in quality and spend the majority of earnings on upgrading our plant and on new equipment. We are a very ethical and honest company that believes the best way to gain a longtime customer is to give them better quality and service than they ask for.
Ownership, Management, Technical Support
President: Kristine L. Ramming
Former Product Manager, Abrasives for 9 years with Electro.
Plant Manager: James R. Kintzel
Former Q.C. Manager with Ferro + 19 years Electro: 27 years experience. Also Corporate Director, Secretary, Founder and Stockholder.
Powder Superintendent: Robert A. Mesanovic
Engineer with Ferro for 8 years + 19 years Electro: 27 years experience. Original Stockholder.
Quality Manager: Charles Hubbard
15 years Electro + 5 years Quality Manager at Applied Design: 20 years experience.
Customer Service Superviser: Cindy Ryniec
22 years in customer service.
Accounting and Human Resources: Sharon Voelker
2 years Electro + 20 years Accounting: 22 years.
Ceramic Engineer: Fred W. Stover
Sales Engineer (with competition) 8 years + 19 years Electro: 27 years.
Regional Sales Engineer: Robert G. Christensen
Over 20 years sales and technical service experience.
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Certification and Testing
On-site physical testing lab in Buffalo Plant. Chemical analysis at professional independent laboratories capable and experienced in SiC and B4C chemical analysis. Every lot of material leaving Electro Abrasives has a serial number and test results on file and meets the applicable specification.
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