Rapid Air To Close Madison Plant

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009

Due to the economic recession, Rapid Air officials have decided to restructure its operations, closing the Madison manufacturing plant and moving production to its corporate headquarters in Rockford, IL.

It was 1959 when Dick Nordlof, an enterprising partner of Mechanical Tool and Engineering Company, located in Rockford, Illinois, pioneered and innovated the first self-contained air feed designed to drastically improve the metal stamping process. It was a device destined to forever change press room operations.

In 1971, the company opened their doors to a newly prepared manufacturing facility in Madison, with strategic capital acquisitions in place for ideal machining capabilities, manufacturing efficiencies and process flow.