Gripnail Marks 50 Year Anniversary in Rhode Island Gripnail Corporation, a manufacturer of fasteners and equipment used in ductwork and machinery, is celebrating 50 years of continuous operation in Rhode Island. The company was founded in 1965 in Providence by Peter and Peggy Hallock and is presently headquartered in East Providence. Gripnail has operated at three different...
The Gripnail PowerPinner™ meets the demand for consistency, reliability and speed. The High Speed PowerPinner from Gripnaill is a tested, trusted partner in the fabrication line at Phoenix Metals, Baltimore, Maryland, a full service HVAC duct manufacturer. They did the research, they ran the numbers, and it all added up to the PowerPinner 50, so they bought...
Employee-Owned Company Celebrates Dual Anniversaries Gripnail Corporation, of East Providence, Rhode Island, has plenty to celebrate. This year marks the 50th anniversary of its founder by original owners, Peter and Peggy Hallock [right]. But the "new owners" are equally pleased with an anniversary of their own - it's been 15 years since the company became an...
Gripnail Introduces Sam... Replacement Controller for Coil Line Pinners Gripnail has developed a spacing acquisition module (SAM) to determine pin spacing for their Power Pinner 50 multihead coil line welders. The SAM is mounted on the coil line after the metal has been notched and before it is flanged. It “reads” the notches in the edge...
You Know the Brand Names now meet The Parent Company The 100+ employees of Lockformer®, Iowa Precision® and Engel® want to thank our loyal customers for sticking with us throughout the first decade of the 21st century. Participating recently in the AHR show in Orlando, we were reminded of how the duct shops from around the...
The heart of Total Air Supply’s sheet metal shop was a 30-year-old Engel Industries coil line. The front of it, production manager Rich Hagerty said, was “as solid and fast as anything you can buy today.” But the back end was slowing the New Hampshire-based operation to 22 feet per minute. Company Vice President Sue...
A new machine wasn’t going to make ColonialWebb Contractors — already a $200 million operation — a success. But company officials said it would make them more successful.That’s what led to the Richmond, Va.-based operation’s decision to purchase a new $750,000 coil line equipped with a power-pinning system that they say makes it one of the...