Rattunde hosts open house at new facility

Rattunde Corp., a Germany-based manufacturer of finished-length tube and solid bar production systems, held an open house on May 13-14 at its 30,000-sq.-ft. facility in Caledonia Township, Mich., near the company’s previous location in Grand Rapids.

The plant houses the North American sales and service operations, plus spare parts inventory and manufacturing operations for the production of machine tooling, as well as a technical center. Future plans call for an expansion of the building to over 100,000 sq. ft. to allow the company to manufacture all of its finished-length tube and solid bar production systems at that location.

Visitors saw a resident machine in action, taking steel tube lengths and producing finished, cut-to-length, chamfered, and machined tubing sections, automatically stacked for shipping, all within the work envelope of the machine.