Graham Engineering Corporation of York has re-invented the wheel. Literally.
Graham, a family-owned company founded in 1960, has been building reliable wheel machines since 1968, used to produce plastic containers, mostly for food and beverages. The company estimates that 90 percent of its wheel machines are still in use today and that billions of plastic containers of all shapes and sizes have been produced on their equipment.
“For many years, there was very little impetus to change our 'tried and true' spool design,” says David Yenor, Graham's vice president for business development. “This has always been the standard by which wheel machines have been compared. But a few years ago, we started focusing our R&D efforts on improving our approach to manufacturing our rotary systems. The result is that we have developed significant advancements in our approach to the wheel construction.”
The new wheels have a breakthrough design concept that offers a much more efficient manufacturing process for Graham, and, for their customers, easier maintenance and more flexibility to redeploy equipment for changing needs.
Graham's rotary wheel equipment, which uses wheels ranging in diameter from six to 15 feet, are widely used to process lightweight plastic bottles, such as containers for dairy, juice or yogurt, motor oil and laundry detergent. Yenor is bound by confidentiality agreements not to disclose client names, but they include many recognizable household names, he says.
Source: David Yenor, Graham Engineering Corporation
Writer: Elise Vider