In 2022, voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation in Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA, celebrates its 75th anniversary as a supplier to the aerospace industry. RFC Sales Representative Becky Holmes tells us more on the company's activities, the recipe for success and the people behind the business.
Many of the most renowned aviation companies rely on voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation (RFC) Aerospace, headquartered in Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA. RFC manufactures lightweight, durable aerospace structural components that meet the highest safety and quality standards: from raw materials to formed and contoured parts made of soft and hard metals, precision machining, as well as titanium and laser welding to ready-to-install components. Moreover, RFC is already paving the way to shift the company's focus increasingly from profile rolling to precision machining.
One team member who knows the aerospace industry like the back of her hand is Becky Holmes: Sales Representative and part of the RFC family for 23 years. Becky started in Accounting and Finance in 1999 and over time has dived deeper into customer service. Today, she enjoys the varied yet challenging work with "her" aviation customers. "It is incredibly important to build and maintain close relationships.
Knowing how enormously high the standards and demands are in the quality controls for aviation parts certainly gives Becky Holmes a good feeling on her air travels.
By the way: Becky Holmes (then Becky Kemper) not only has world champion expertise in the aviation industry. In 1998, she also was women's world horseshoe pitching champion.
Shelbyville is a small town in the Louisville metropolitan area. The fact that innovative aircraft components are highly technologically manufactured in this rather rural environment is surprising, as Becky Holmes knows to report: "People are often amazed when I tell them about my work and initially believe that entire airplanes roll out of our production halls," Becky Holmes says with a smile. The fact that RFC has been a proven partner to the aviation industry for decades is made possible not only by the latest technologies, machines and materials, but above all by the spirit of the RFC aviation team.
Curious? Get to know two more of the RFC aviation team-members:
On August 20, 2022, voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation celebrated its 75th anniversary. It has always been a reliable partner and supplier to the aerospace industry. Roll Forming Corporation was founded in 1947 with one location, one roll forming line and 3 employees. Today it is part of the Metal Forming Division and operates 32 roll forming lines and around 80 adjacent technologies and processes. The company employs approximately 440 people in three states. As part of the anniversary celebrations, voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation announced plans for further expansion of the company.
voestalpine has been an established supplier to the aviation industry for around 100 years. The Group manufactures extremely complex, highly durable and safety-critical components for renowned customers worldwide, so that practically every aircraft flies with a piece of voestalpine. At the restart after the severe turbulence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company provides insights into the very special (aero)dynamics of this business area.
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