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ABC Metal Products, which will eventually evolve into Red Bud Industries, Inc., is created by Ken Voges as a machine shop on his parents’ farm near Red Bud, Illinois.

  • Red Bud Industries is granted its first of many patents to come. This one is for the Grip Feed Measuring System which can hold +.005” (.127 mm) length tolerances.

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  • Red Bud Industries builds a 25,000 square feet (2323 square meters) manufacturing facility and moves into its present-day site.

  • The Company expands its manufacturing plant to 50,000 square feet (4645 square meters).

  • Red Bud Industries is the first manufacturer to install a Stretcher Leveler into a Cut-To-Length Line.

  • Red Bud Industries designs and builds its first Multi-Cut Blanking Line with the introduction of a patented CNC Slitting Head. To date, Red Bud Industries has over 140 of these systems in operation around the world.

  • Red Bud Industries introduces the Dual Action Grip Feed, which achieves production speeds as high as 400 FPM (122 m/min).

  • Red Bud Industries supplies its first Coil-To-Coil Slitting Line. The manufacturing plant expands to 100,000 square feet (9290 square meters).

2002 - TMW Stretcher

  • Red Bud Industries builds and installs its first .250” (6.3 mm) thick In-Line Stretcher Leveler.

  • The Company installs its first .500” (12.7 mm) thick In-Line Stretcher Leveler.
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