Founded in the late Sixties in the industrious Italian North – East, by a local entrepreneur as a local workshop specialized in the regrinding of big size rollers and cylinders, over the years RIF widened its offer and established itself as a company with a prominent position in the international marketplace as a Supplier of maintenance, refitting and surface renewal of the rolls and cylinders operating in several industrial sectors, primarily in the paper, board and tissue production lines.
RIF is also active in other industrial fields where cylinders or rotors are installed in the production lines, with special focus on medium and big sizes. The other industrial sectors ranked by importance are plastic film production mills in general, rolling mills for the metallurgical sectors, textile industry and lately also an interestingly rising importance in the field of energy with high precision grindings for turbines, rotors and shafts.
Along with the traditional activity of advanced and value adding maintenance provided to the existing rolls of the Clients, RIF does also design and manufacture new rolls and is nowadays a recognized landmark for OEMs and Users of medium to large cylinders.
In particular cases, when the transportation of the cylinders is not possible due to size and weight (i.e., Yankee cylinders in tissue production) and under particular work conditions, the grinding, balancing, and thermal spraying operations have to be made on – site, directly at the Mill. This is possible thanks to in-house designed and manufactured CNC portable machinery ensuring reliable quality and expert Teams working in shifts around the clock to minimize the costly paper machine downtimes. The RIF on-Site service is internationally known for service quality and accuracy and the volume of this business line has shown a significant upturn in the past few years. This service is strongly underpinned by the management of logistics. And by a close cooperation with the Clients in all organizational issues which concur to the positive achievement of the overall goal: accurate technical service in the minimum possible working times and with a reduced preliminary burden to the Customer to enable the setup of the working equipment in place.
COMPANY – ORGANIZATION
The Udine Headquarters and Plant hosts two companies whose competences are closely connected whilst maintaining their distinctive identity:
RIF SPA - a medium sized company widely recognized player for the maintenance, refurbishing and surface renewal of rolls and cylinders.
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precision grindings
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reconditioning of rolls
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onsite grindings
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onsite metal coatings
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onsite special services (troubleshooting, dynamic balancing, reconditioning of journals and running seat of drums, regrinding of Calender rolls, regrinding of counter-cylinders for Shoe-Press, Long-Nip presses, Forming rolls...)
RIF ROLL COVER SRL - a joint venture company between RIF and VOITH PAPER for the business branch relating to polymeric coatings.
Currently, the RIF Roll Cover range of products allows to cover most of the applications of rollers and cylinders for the various manufacturing lines. The integration with the other departments and above all with the great experience of RIF in the grinding and mechanical reconditioning of cylinders, allows us to provide a complete service, not limited to pure rubber coating.
RIF Roll Cover Srl is an approved Supplier by Voith, not only for a number of rubber coverings to be installed in Voith machines worldwide, but also as a Partner/Strategic supplier for fine machining of rolls and suction shells.
From its strategic location in the north east of Italy, a hundred km far from the Austrian border and close to the seaport of Trieste for overseas connections; RIF is today delivering worldwide, well aware of the specific needs, cultural features and critical issues of the different markets.
Over the past few years RIF has raised the banner in the Extra EU Markets both in the Far East and in Latin America in a minor extent and it is strengthening its presence both directly and indirectly partnering well known Machine Manufacturers as a strategically Sub supplier.
