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- 1985 John Cremer, after 10
years with Koch/Multivac where he served first as a field service man,
then service manager and engineer, left and started his small company,
Integrated Industrial Services. I2S for the next 2 plus years provided
service for European rollstock type machines but primarily Multivacs.
- 1987 John started fully
rebuilding Multivac machines. Johns’ business grew because of
his quality and timely workmanship as well as his competitive pricing.
- 1989 John set up a machine
shop to manufacture his own parts and dies because the European parts
prices and availability had become prohibitive for him and his
business. John’s business and reputation continued to flourish.
John Cremer was basically gutting the European machines and was
starting with only the cast aluminum frames. He would then replace
nearly everything with his or off the shelf North American parts which
where less expensive and much easier to source. This rebuild included
chains, sprockets, wiring to include an inexpensive but extremely
reliable microprocessor from Mitsubishi available in any major city
and still used today. John was now making his own dies of solid T6061
aircraft/marine aluminum as apposed to the cast aluminum the Europeans
use.
- John then went to the next
stage due to the acceptance of his full rebuilds, while he continued
his original business. He began work building a brand new machine,
frame and all with the technology that he developed in the rebuilding
business. He added a couple of features that he thought should be on
all vacuum packaging machines; automatic chain tensioners to reduce
chain stretch and early replacement as well as a vacuum leak detection
program to reduce the need for a factory technician with multiple
gauges to find a leak that prevents quality packages.
- 1993 John finally got his
first new machine placed into production at a meat processing plant
- 1995 John partnered with
the Azzar group of companies to provide a larger marketing
opportunity.
- 1996 John Cremer felt he
had no more to give and sold the balance of Integrated Industrial
Services to the Azzar group. The company was reorganized into what is
now Rollstock, Inc. It continues to use all of the original concepts
for an American built, easy to use machine.
- 2003 The new RA200 was
introduced offering a more compact machine with most of the same
capabilities of the original machine
- 2004 Joined forces with
Pro-Pac services to introduce a zipper applicator to the RI200
machine. This allows the smaller companies to get into producing
packages with the feature of being able to re-close.
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