PRESS RELEASE: AdaptARC Sales Manager Joins Tri Tool

Rancho Cordova, CA – Tri Tool is excited to welcome industry orbital welding expert, Tom Aquino.  With over 25 years’ experience in the manufacturing and sales of automated orbital welding equipment, Tom has worked with many of the mainstays of this industry such as Diametrics, Arc Machines Incorporated and was most recently a Sales Manager with Astro-Arc – Polysoude’s mechanized welding systems group.

On MFG Day manufacturers recognize one of many California Champion companies

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Media Contact: Gino DiCaro (Office) 916-498-3347 or (Mobile) 916-730-3443

Tri Tool out of Rancho Cordova is providing high quality jobs and skills within a cutting edge industry, and supporting California's economy.
 
Oct. 2, 2015 
Sacramento, CA - Today, on National Manufacturing Day, the California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) announced its eighth Manufacturing Champion, Tri Tool out of Rancho Cordova, by releasing a recognition video that highlights the company's positive impact on its employees and our economy.

CMTA's Champions recognition program honors positive contributions by manufacturing companies who are committed to California and exemplify the high principles of economic growth, innovation, entrepreneurship, and commitment to their employees. CMTA honored seven Champions last year and the Association continues to use the program to demonstrate the sector's incredible impact on the economy. Tri Tool's operations were a perfect fit for the recognition program, as you'll see in the video. 

"Tri Tool's visionary product and growth in the region exemplifies that California manufacturers are the best in the world," said CMTA president Dorothy Rothrock. "The impressive company is a source of pride for the region, for us at CMTA, and clearly for their fantastic workers."

Since 1972, Tri Tool Incorporated has been the world's leading engineering, manufacturing, sales and field construction services provider of precision portable machine tools, growing from just a few employees to 200 dedicated employees world-wide. Tri Tool employs and trains craftsmen, machinists and welders to make and provide services that can go deep underground, water or space to repair piping systems all over the world. Rather than bring the work piece to the machine shop, Tri Tool manufactures, in California, quality, portable machine tools you can take to the work site.


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Tri Tool Welcomes New Regional Sales Manager

Please join us as we welcome Jonathan McIntosh as the new sales manager for the Gulf States Region that includes; Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

Tri Tool Awarded D&Z Diversity Supplier award

Rancho Cordova – June 9, 2015 – Tri Tool is awarded Day & Zimmermann’s Diversity Supplier of the Year Award.

Every year for the past 15 years, Day & Zimmermann a family-owned company specializing in construction, engineering and maintenance announces their suppliers of the year.  These companies are awarded because of the way they conduct business, contribute to Day & Zimmermann’s ability to provide a higher quality of service to their customers.

Business Spotlight: Tri Tool, Inc. works on a Pipeline of People to Fuel Manufacturing in the Sacramento Area

by Michelle Stephens, Program Manager, CALED
 
A qualified and well-trained workforce is top of the list for California businesses. As the state’s local workforce investment boards and workforce development groups tackle these challenges, some businesses have stepped up to the plate as well. One such company is Tri Tool, Inc.   

Solution Profile: BART SVBX Project

An innovative Tri Tool Services on-site machining solution proved successful in carefully removing critical communication cables buried deep in the ground, a critical phase of the BART Extension Project.

With Today’s Advanced Orbital Welding Equipment You Get Ironclad Performance!

The term “ironclad performance” has its origins in history, but is still relevant in today’s workplace and with similar meaning to the source.

There was a day when countries defended themselves with magnificent wooden warships, tall-masted and bristling with cannons. Impressive projections of political power on the high seas, these ships succumbed to technology when it occurred to nautical visionaries that smaller, more maneuverable ships clad in iron plates might be less susceptible to fire (and much more difficult to sink).

Utilizing “Off-the-Shelf” Parts Saves You Time and Money

Have you ever had the experience of trying to fix a device that should be easy to do, only to find out that the product you bought uses “special” components? The problem is made worse in that there seems to be no reason that your product manufacturer chose not to use the same part that nearly everyone else uses.

PRESS RELEASE: TRI TOOL, INC. OF RANCHO CORDOVA, CALIF. RECEIVES SAFETY AWARD OF MERIT FROM FABRICATORS & MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

ROCKFORD, Ill., April 30, 2015 – Tri Tool, Inc. was recently chosen to receive a 2015
Safety Award of Merit from the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA). Open to all FMA and Tube & Pipe International (TPA) company members, the FMA/CNA Annual Safety Awards recognize metal fabrication companies that adhere to excellence in safety.  

PRESS RELEASE: New VP Appointed for Tri Tool Services

Rancho Cordova, CA - Robert Korey has been appointed to Vice President of Field Services, overseeing Tri Tool Services, (TPS) Tri Tool Power Services, Welding Operations, OEM Shop Services, and OEM Training.

Discover what is going on "Down Under" the world of Pipe Fabrication

Tri Tool discusses the successful collaboration between and American precision machine tool and welding equipment manufacturer, and a leading New Zealand pipe fabrication company, a half a world away.

Rebranding career tech jobs vital to growing workforce say Sacramento employers

March 17, 2015 by John Guenther

When talking to employers in California and college chancellors, it's clear that career tech jobs need a retooling of their image. At a workforce town hall in Sacramento yesterday, those in attendance stressed the old view of CTE jobs as "dirty", low-pay jobs is out of date, as is the pace that California is training students to replace retiring workers.

Safer By Design

A manufacturer proves their commitment to safety in the products they design.

Along with enhanced capabilities, processes, and intuitive control, today’s welding equipment must provide features that make working with mechanized equipment as safe as possible. When increased performance is achieved, while offering increased safety, you have the best of both worlds.

Accordingly, product safety was a prime design consideration when Tri Tool set out to introduce their advanced multi-process AdaptARC® welding system. With a long history as a leading producer of weld preparation tools, Tri Tool’s product engineers had a unique perspective gained from extensive experience working directly with professional welders, in a wide range of industries.

This advantage resulted in a welding system that is as safe as it is versatile.

A review of safety considerations designed and built-in to the AdaptARC system include:

• Innovative programmable control and (patented) machine components that permit welding processes that offer major reductions in spatter and fumes.  A decreased level of hazardous hexavalent chrome fumes is a significant safety benefit to the operator.
• Reduced spatter and smoke yields improved process visibility and increased welder comfort. These factors ensure an improved working environment and better weld results.
• A practical remote pendant that allows the operator to monitor the weld with immediate program modification and Emergency Stop control so that their attention can remain on the process in progress and the mechanized machine in motion. 
• A unique gas flow monitoring function of the weld control circuitry ensures that the flow of oxygen displacing welding gas is interrupted at the completion of each weld process. This safeguard prevents the accidental build-up of gas that could be extremely hazardous to welders operating in confined spaces.
• A specific built-in safeguard of the AdaptARC welding system control circuitry is motor current monitoring of the rotating weld head AVC and Oscillation functions. Increased current demand outside of normal levels would indicate a straining drive motor such as would occur if electrical cords, wire, rope, an operator’s arm or clothing, etc. was acting as an obstruction to movement. In the event of this non-typical current level, the system would generate an error code and bring the entire system to a safe, immediate stop.
• As with any GMAW (MIG) welding, a important safety concern is that the entire length of filler wire (including the wire spool) is electrically energized while the weld is in progress. This presents a possibility of arc flash or severe electric shock should the operator come in contact with the filler wire or spool. To address this, the AdaptARC system was designed to protect the welder with extensive filler wire shielding combined with a full, non-conductive spool cage that reduces the possibility of inadvertent operator contact, while still providing excellent visibility of the remaining spool wire.
• The AdaptARC system is provided in safety compliance with ISO/IEC 17050-1:2004 and 2006//42/EC Machinery Directive for Safety of Machinery, and Arc Welding Equipment.

The design and success of the AdaptARC welding system reflects Tri Tool’s commitment to designing safe and intuitive products, and the personal safety of our customers.

Innovative Machining and Welding Solution Results in Major Time and Cost Savings for Hydroelectric Plant Repairs

New York Power Authority (NYPA), one of the country’s largest state public power organizations had a 50” metal shaft sleeve that had premature wear, horizontal grooving and cycle fatigue cracking at their Blenheim-Gilboa (B-G) Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant. The shaft is located at the base of Brown Mountain at subterranean depths making repairs tricky.

Passion drives bottom-line results for key customer

Tool has been building performance in portable machining tools and orbital welding products since 1972, but did you know that we are building performance in our Rancho Cordova, CA facility as well. We have partnered with SMUD to help us reduce our energy costs as well as other solutions. Read about our partnership with SMUD in this brief article that appeared in SMUD's newsletter.



Business customers are critical to SMUD because they account for a large percentage of our revenue, and more importantly, for the jobs and economic benefits they provide our community and region.

"That's why I have a real passion for working with our business community," said Leah Pertl, a commercial accounts energy advisor. "When they succeed, Sacramento and our region succeed."

It's easy to see that Pertl loves her job. "My job as energy advisor is to make sure that I'm connected with the businesses and people I work with."

Pertl brings that enthusiasm to her current portfolio of SMUD commercial customers, which includes the Sacramento Kings, Whole Foods Market and Arden Fair Shopping Center.

"I really enjoy helping my customers find innovative solutions and opportunities to reduce their operational costs," said Pertl, who is quick to give credit to the many people at SMUD with whom she works as a liason between business customers and SMUD.

Until mid-2014, Pertl was the energy advisor to Tri Tool, which has a combined office and manufacturing facility on Sunrise Boulevard in Rancho Cordova. It is a leading industrial equipment manufacturer and one of our largest industrial customers.

Providing business solutions

"Everything we did with SMUD was primarily driven by solving a business problem, we ended up saving energy as a byproduct of trying to solve the problem," said Tri Tool Facilities Manager Joel Walton.



"Through several projects we worked on with SMUD, we actually reduced that bill by about 25 percent."
Examples of problems that needed to be solved the past few years were the need for better lighting and climate control. In both instances and many more, SMUD was instrumental in solving the problem by advising Walton on the latest products and technology and even ones that were under research and development. We also tol him of solutions that involved upgrades, additions and rebates.

"Our experience with SMUD has been a collaborative partnership," Walton said. "SMUD got to really understand our business, helped us solve our business challenges, and we saved energy and money in the process."

"Working with Joel was really great," Pertl said of Walton. Tri Tool was part of her portfolio of business customers for several year before she moved on in mid-2014 to handle other commercial accounts for SMUD. "I enjoyed working with Tri Too, and helping them to identify innovative solutions that really met their needs."

TECH TIP: Determining Bit Position for Optimal Squaring Results

When using 300 Series squaring tools in preparation for welding high purity tubing systems, you can direct the burr away from the polished ID bore for a better autogenous weld joint.

Safety Focus: Keep it Clean - and Safe

When considering workplace safety, most people utilizing portable machine tools think first about safe operation of the equipment. That’s completely logical. Any time someone is using a cutting tool with rotating or reciprocating elements that could produce pinch points, the operator must be ever vigilant to avoid hazardous contact with the machine.

Tri Tool Implements Enhanced Customer Training Program

Tri Tool’s customer training program was developed to provide a thorough education in Tri Tool machine tools and welding equipment as well as industry best practices for safe field operation and maintenance.

When it comes to Orbital Welding, It’s time to Get with the Program!

Today’s advanced, intuitive and versatile programmability can deliver greatly increased efficiency with your orbital welding costs, training, cycle times, safety, and welding results.

The Challenge to Acceptance and Certification of New Welding Methods

We live in a remarkable time of constantly emerging technological advancements.  There are many challenges to the acceptance and certification of mechanized welding methods that can vary widely between specific industries. Acceptance can be a subjective factor as in the case of the cliché “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Many of the most experienced, skilled welders may not require or appreciate the operational advantages that automated welding systems offer. Another consideration is that a large number of professional welders may not be aware of the underlying practical and economical influences driving these new technologies.