INTERNATIONAL SALES
Rocklin Manufacturing Co., incorporated in 1934, is an established manufacturer of industrial electronic equipment and the 2024 winner of the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) Exporter of the Year Award for Iowa and the Great Plains Region (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska). The Rocklinizer Carbide Application Equipment and the Rocklin MoldMender Micro Welder are built in Sioux City, Iowa, and marketed worldwide through agents, representatives and distributors. Our global sales reach is illustrated below. Please contact us to Request Info, Demo or Quote.
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ALABAMA
- Rocklinize spade drills, form tools – use every two days … Rocklinize 46–foot bandsaws … Use on reamers and drills – carbide inserts on edges – get 25% longer life.
ALASKA
ARIZONA
- Rocklinize 22cutting tools – happy with it and many thanks for being there when we needed you … Rocklinize chipper blades that cut ponderosa pine … 46’ bandsaw blades.
ARKANSAS
- Rocklinize carbolloy tools for longer life … Cutting tools … Rocklinize aluminum molds every 6 months.
CALIFORNIA
- 1/4 spade drills used for drilling alloy steel; increased life … Main application seaming chucks … Rocklinizing worn stamping dies to extend life … Rocklinizing die facing, couldn’t run aluminum without it … Rocklinize stainless steel auger used to cut chicken bones … Rocklinize rim roll tooling, punches, dies … Keeps slugs from sticking.
COLORADO
- Rocklinize drills and end mills … Part of maintenance department … Small tools.
CONNECTICUT
- Rocklinize clamping jaws … Rocklinize punches – get 2–3 times the life … Rocklinize bottom dies that make radiators … Chain saws.
DELAWARE
- Rocklinize tools for cutting Kevlar fiber made by DuPont.
FLORIDA
- Rocklinize face of hammer on computer line printer … Very happy with Rocklinizer; paid for itself many times over … Has saved them thousands of dollars … Rocklinize lamination dies … Drills … Extrusion dies.
GEORGIA
- Use in drawing operations and punch press dies, drills and end mills.
HAWAII
IDAHO
- Use Rocklinizing on blades of post and pole peelers and post sharpener … Use on chain saws to get 2–3 times life and less sharpening.
ILLINOIS
- On A–2 tool steel dies in tape control operation and end mills … Ecstatic with Rocklinizer for hard facing pusher jaws … Use it on plastic molds; first we Rocklinize with tungsten carbide electrode, then with Super Titan electrode (TiC) – very happy … Use Rocklinizing on piercing and stamping dies … Make cutting tools, use on edges … Use Rockhard electrode to roughen dies to hold tubes so they won’t slip, get at least twice the life … Use Rocklinizer in the tool crib … Use Rocklinizer building up bushings, on hammer heads for resale … Rocklinize bearing shafts … Use on highly abrasive dies.
INDIANA
- Use on making and repairing dies – bring undersize die parts to size – use on chopper blades to cut PVC material … Rocklinize undersize bearings … Rocklinize drawing dies making oil filters – gets twice the life.
IOWA
- Rocklinize die blocks, cut off blades, cutlery – time between resharpening cut 50% … We use it every day on cutters and tools with our 40–50 pieces of numerical control equipment … Punches go through 1" material … increased life of cutters, blades – saved $400 broach … Rocklinize reamers holding tolerances to few tenths … Savings paid for Rocklinizer in one week … H.S.S. and carbide tools, build up undersized drills and reamers – 3 times life on tools … Rocklinize tools for Hydrotel as well as planers – excellent on tools for hot punches – increased tool life above all their expectations.
KANSAS
- Rocklinize drills – one drilling center has 9 drills – 4 times life and improved production 300% … Lathe bits, milling cutters, drills used in repairing guns; points on triggers … One rotary cutter used for broaching – ran 12,000 parts – after Rocklinizing has run 25,000 parts and still going … Get 100% increase on life in drill bits and end mills … Use on wire forming dies … 100% life improvement on forging blocks for hot work.
KENTUCKY
- Use Rocklinizing on cores of H–13 steel for casting aluminum … Use to roughen up draw die holding radii and tightening small punches where set screws are not permissible … Rocklinize drilling and mining tools … H.S.S. tools and form tools on screw machines.
LOUISIANA
- After Rocklinizing shell mills and turbo end mills and stoning them lightly, get 3 times life … Use every day on die surfaces … End mills … In use all the time on cutter teeth that hot tap holes in pipe.
MAINE
MARYLAND
- Rocklinize with silver over copper wiring contact points.
MASSACHUSETTS
- Research center – works like a charm on drills, reamers, lots of special tools … Good on chain saw teeth and bars … Rocklinize progressive die work areas … Extends life of collets and finger pads … Rocklinize punches and dies used on heavy press work for automotive trade … Use Rocklinizing on 15/16" – 4 flute hog end mills to rough out stainless steel … Increase life of staking tools … Wear area of mold dies … Build up old dies … Rocklinize guide rolls and stripper plates to reduce wear.
MICHIGAN
- Rocklinize bearings and crank shafts … Milling cutters last 3 times longer … Die areas for gripping and clamping … Use 12–14 hours a day to Rocklinize collet pads … Use on shafts holding bearing races – eliminates sending out worn parts … Rocklinize dies to stop slugging … Rocklinize drills used on special forging operations – unit paid for itself in one operation … Tighten up loose dowels, punches, die buttons – saves downtime tool expense, gives greater production … Rocklinizing bores in collets increases torque power 5–6 times … Rocklinizing has extended production, reduced inventory of carbide inserts due to longer life … Salvage worn parts and correct machining errors … Use on debarking knives … Rocklinizes cutting surfaces of trim and punch dies giving longer run time – cutting edges do not roll … Could not operate our tube fabricating operation without Rocklinizing … Rocklinize wear surfaces of shoes of holding mandrels … Heat treat cutting tools and grippers in mill, then Rocklinize edges.
MINNESOTA
- Rocklinize extrusion dies to help us hold close dimensions on areas that wear when aluminum is pushed through dies … In die casting operations when slugs start dropping … On spot facing drills … Wear parts of feed fingers that move paper … On saws for resale … On clamping rings that grip foil when stretched … Molds and punch press equipment to make toys … Rocklinize drills cutting electro–magnetic iron.
MISSISSIPPI
- Rocklinize 48" long keyway broach to extend life of broach … Rocklinize lamination die to stop slugging … Rocklinize chopper / cutter blades that cut H.S.S. … Use 2 hours a day on M-3 milling cutter and form tools.
MISSOURI
- Rocklinize cutting edges of circular chasers machining brass casters which increases wear life 17%, amounting to $2,000 yearly; also salvaged 3,000 case hardened stamped pieces where excess metal had been ground off for $1,500 more … Increased life 50% between resharpening of progressive die punches … Use it on seaming chucks of canning operations … Use it 8 hours a day on punches … Use it all the time – mostly on dies.
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
- Rocklinize seating tapers of cores and stripper bushings – sliding cores, inserts, levers and shafts of molds … Rocklinize shafts with tool post gun … Rocklinize pusher pads and collets – good for another 6 months … Inside of dies to prevent slug pull back.
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Rocklinize saw blades, carbide inserts, etc., … Chuck jaws for holding.
NEW JERSEY
- Rocklinize clamps holding tennis rackets being strung … Works great on forming tools in wire operations … On tooling and carbide inserts … Forming plugs increase wear ability … Cutting tools, carbide tools, etc.
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
- Rocklinize drills they sell … Rocklinize hardened stainless surgical instruments … Tools used in heavy metal stamping operations … Build up die sections … Punches, inserts, die sections … Rocklinize small cobalt drills … Use on progressive dies … Rocklinize special H.S.S. end mills and drills … Use it on anvils … Extends life of extrusion dies … Rocklinize canning liner and seaming chucks … Prevents slug pull back.
NORTH CAROLINA
- Rocklinize face of hammer on computer line printer … Very happy with Rocklinizer; paid for itself many times over … Has saved them thousands of dollars … Rocklinize lamination dies … Drills … Extrusion dies.
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
- Rocklinize drills, reamers, taps and cutting tools; on tools used in working with C–1110 material … Good machine – trouble free – use once a day; Rocklinize tap which previously tapped 2 holes – now does 60 holes … Very happy with it … Multiple spindle screw machines – H.S.S. cutting tools –face collets and pusher pads … Works excellently; Rocklinize wire forming dies … Building up worn tools … Rework edges of trim dies … Used Rocklinizer for years on drop forge dies … Rocklinize nail dies and cutters … Bearings and extrusion dies … Finding new applications every day … Rocklinize paper cutting knives and anvils – Make aircraft parts … Do work for Chrysler … Very happy with results …. Blanking die eliminates slugging, milling cutters and drill … Rocklinize split collets and shunt pads which grip large pipe being machined.
OKLAHOMA
- Very happy with Rocklinizer used on shears that make wire bread ties for bread wrappers … End mills – reamers for large pump manufacturers.
OREGON
- Rocklinize knives of moulder heads … On good clean cutting wood like pine, previously ran 50,000 lineal board feet before resharpening – with Rocklinizing we can go as high as 500,000 lineal feet. We have 8 moulders … Knives previously cut 1,000 feet – now Rocklinized knives cut up to 7,000 feet – Rocklinize 19’6" band saw to cut Philippine mahogany; now get 4 times life – operation time to Rocklinize blade –20 minutes.
PENNSYLVANIA
- Rocklinizing works beautifully – use every day on form tools … Rocklinize cutting tools to machine 304 stainless steel castings … End mills machining zinc and aluminum die castings and tool steel … Increasing production 100% or better … Rocklinize cams … Broaches and drills … Prevent soldering where molten metal tends to solder on dies … Paper cutting knives and anvils … Hammers used to pulverize cocoa beans … Rocklinize N.C. tools for drilling – slab and horizontal milling cutters – doubles life of tools to cut high carbon and chrome … Puts heavy coating on our feeder bowls – works great … Rocklinize H.S.S. tool edges that cut molten glass.
RHODE ISLAND
- Everything works fine – good results … Very satisfactory; wouldn’t know what to do without it – puts beautiful mottle finish on tools … Very good machine for tools for screw machining – make all their own tools – Rocklinizing lasts longer.
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Rocklinized dies stop slug pull back … Rocklinize molds that make ceramic parts … Use on spade drills, cutters, shearing punches for saw blades.
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
- Rocklinize tools to bend copper tubing … Mandrels of hollow dies … 2" twist drills … Slug pulling reduced – builds up undersized dies … Very happy – milling cutters, shell mills, circular cutters.
TEXAS
- Rocklinize drills, end mills – pleased with results … Build up undersize tools – harden cutter faces … Build up internal splines of gears expanded during heat treatment … Have used unit for several years .. Dies get twice life … Rocklinize drills and hobs for special material – get 2-3 times life … Rolls and collets.
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
- Rocklinize dies … Outside supplier for company who specify Rocklinizing 1"wide band on 400 parts … Rocklinize motorcycle parts … Cutting tools – H.S.S. and carbide.
WASHINGTON
- Rocklinize planer knives – extends life of expensive tools several times … Impregnates knife blades of office type paper cutters – circular saw blades will cut up to 5 times longer.
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
- Rocklinize draw dies on deep draw processes … Taps … Dowel pin holes … Rocklinize screw machine form tools cutting through tough materials – previously had to shut operation down every 2 to 3 hours – Rocklinizing allowed 2–1/2 complete shifts before resharpening … Spade drills … Oil pan draw dies … Drawing operation … Cut off tools … Rocklinize milling cutters and hobs after grinding for additional hardness … Seaming chucks … Needle dies … Surfacing shafts … H.S.S. tools used on large boring mills … Dies … Punches … Die casting die gates, vents, and cores so aluminum won’t stick to H-13 steel dies.
WYOMING
CANADA
MEXICO
COSTA RICA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
COLUMBIA
VENEZUELA
BRAZIL
CHILE
ARGENTINA
UNITED KINGDOM
SPAIN
FRANCE
GERMANY
AUSTRIA
ITALY
SERBIA
ROMANIA
HUNGARY
POLAND
LATVIA
SWEDEN
TURKEY
EGYPT
SOUTH AFRICA
PAKISTAN
INDIA
CHINA
HONG KONG
TAIWAN
KOREA
JAPAN
PHILIPPINES
SINGAPORE
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
United States
ALABAMA
- Rocklinize spade drills, form tools – use every two days … Rocklinize 46–foot bandsaws … Use on reamers and drills – carbide inserts on edges – get 25% longer life.
ALASKA
ARIZONA
- Rocklinize 22cutting tools – happy with it and many thanks for being there when we needed you … Rocklinize chipper blades that cut ponderosa pine … 46’ bandsaw blades.
ARKANSAS
- Rocklinize carbolloy tools for longer life … Cutting tools … Rocklinize aluminum molds every 6 months.
CALIFORNIA
- 1/4 spade drills used for drilling alloy steel; increased life … Main application seaming chucks … Rocklinizing worn stamping dies to extend life … Rocklinizing die facing, couldn’t run aluminum without it … Rocklinize stainless steel auger used to cut chicken bones … Rocklinize rim roll tooling, punches, dies … Keeps slugs from sticking.
COLORADO
- Rocklinize drills and end mills … Part of maintenance department … Small tools.
CONNECTICUT
- Rocklinize clamping jaws … Rocklinize punches – get 2–3 times the life … Rocklinize bottom dies that make radiators … Chain saws.
DELAWARE
- Rocklinize tools for cutting Kevlar fiber made by DuPont.
FLORIDA
- Rocklinize face of hammer on computer line printer … Very happy with Rocklinizer; paid for itself many times over … Has saved them thousands of dollars … Rocklinize lamination dies … Drills … Extrusion dies.
GEORGIA
- Use in drawing operations and punch press dies, drills and end mills.
HAWAII
IDAHO
- Use Rocklinizing on blades of post and pole peelers and post sharpener … Use on chain saws to get 2–3 times life and less sharpening.
ILLINOIS
- On A–2 tool steel dies in tape control operation and end mills … Ecstatic with Rocklinizer for hard facing pusher jaws … Use it on plastic molds; first we Rocklinize with tungsten carbide electrode, then with Super Titan electrode (TiC) – very happy … Use Rocklinizing on piercing and stamping dies … Make cutting tools, use on edges … Use Rockhard electrode to roughen dies to hold tubes so they won’t slip, get at least twice the life … Use Rocklinizer in the tool crib … Use Rocklinizer building up bushings, on hammer heads for resale … Rocklinize bearing shafts … Use on highly abrasive dies.
INDIANA
- Use on making and repairing dies – bring undersize die parts to size – use on chopper blades to cut PVC material … Rocklinize undersize bearings … Rocklinize drawing dies making oil filters – gets twice the life.
IOWA
- Rocklinize die blocks, cut off blades, cutlery – time between resharpening cut 50% … We use it every day on cutters and tools with our 40–50 pieces of numerical control equipment … Punches go through 1" material … increased life of cutters, blades – saved $400 broach … Rocklinize reamers holding tolerances to few tenths … Savings paid for Rocklinizer in one week … H.S.S. and carbide tools, build up undersized drills and reamers – 3 times life on tools … Rocklinize tools for Hydrotel as well as planers – excellent on tools for hot punches – increased tool life above all their expectations.
KANSAS
- Rocklinize drills – one drilling center has 9 drills – 4 times life and improved production 300% … Lathe bits, milling cutters, drills used in repairing guns; points on triggers … One rotary cutter used for broaching – ran 12,000 parts – after Rocklinizing has run 25,000 parts and still going … Get 100% increase on life in drill bits and end mills … Use on wire forming dies … 100% life improvement on forging blocks for hot work.
KENTUCKY
- Use Rocklinizing on cores of H–13 steel for casting aluminum … Use to roughen up draw die holding radii and tightening small punches where set screws are not permissible … Rocklinize drilling and mining tools … H.S.S. tools and form tools on screw machines.
LOUISIANA
- After Rocklinizing shell mills and turbo end mills and stoning them lightly, get 3 times life … Use every day on die surfaces … End mills … In use all the time on cutter teeth that hot tap holes in pipe.
MAINE
MARYLAND
- Rocklinize with silver over copper wiring contact points.
MASSACHUSETTS
- Research center – works like a charm on drills, reamers, lots of special tools … Good on chain saw teeth and bars … Rocklinize progressive die work areas … Extends life of collets and finger pads … Rocklinize punches and dies used on heavy press work for automotive trade … Use Rocklinizing on 15/16" – 4 flute hog end mills to rough out stainless steel … Increase life of staking tools … Wear area of mold dies … Build up old dies … Rocklinize guide rolls and stripper plates to reduce wear.
MICHIGAN
- Rocklinize bearings and crank shafts … Milling cutters last 3 times longer … Die areas for gripping and clamping … Use 12–14 hours a day to Rocklinize collet pads … Use on shafts holding bearing races – eliminates sending out worn parts … Rocklinize dies to stop slugging … Rocklinize drills used on special forging operations – unit paid for itself in one operation … Tighten up loose dowels, punches, die buttons – saves downtime tool expense, gives greater production … Rocklinizing bores in collets increases torque power 5–6 times … Rocklinizing has extended production, reduced inventory of carbide inserts due to longer life … Salvage worn parts and correct machining errors … Use on debarking knives … Rocklinizes cutting surfaces of trim and punch dies giving longer run time – cutting edges do not roll … Could not operate our tube fabricating operation without Rocklinizing … Rocklinize wear surfaces of shoes of holding mandrels … Heat treat cutting tools and grippers in mill, then Rocklinize edges.
MINNESOTA
- Rocklinize extrusion dies to help us hold close dimensions on areas that wear when aluminum is pushed through dies … In die casting operations when slugs start dropping … On spot facing drills … Wear parts of feed fingers that move paper … On saws for resale … On clamping rings that grip foil when stretched … Molds and punch press equipment to make toys … Rocklinize drills cutting electro–magnetic iron.
MISSISSIPPI
- Rocklinize 48" long keyway broach to extend life of broach … Rocklinize lamination die to stop slugging … Rocklinize chopper / cutter blades that cut H.S.S. … Use 2 hours a day on M-3 milling cutter and form tools.
MISSOURI
- Rocklinize cutting edges of circular chasers machining brass casters which increases wear life 17%, amounting to $2,000 yearly; also salvaged 3,000 case hardened stamped pieces where excess metal had been ground off for $1,500 more … Increased life 50% between resharpening of progressive die punches … Use it on seaming chucks of canning operations … Use it 8 hours a day on punches … Use it all the time – mostly on dies.
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
- Rocklinize seating tapers of cores and stripper bushings – sliding cores, inserts, levers and shafts of molds … Rocklinize shafts with tool post gun … Rocklinize pusher pads and collets – good for another 6 months … Inside of dies to prevent slug pull back.
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Rocklinize saw blades, carbide inserts, etc., … Chuck jaws for holding.
NEW JERSEY
- Rocklinize clamps holding tennis rackets being strung … Works great on forming tools in wire operations … On tooling and carbide inserts … Forming plugs increase wear ability … Cutting tools, carbide tools, etc.
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
- Rocklinize drills they sell … Rocklinize hardened stainless surgical instruments … Tools used in heavy metal stamping operations … Build up die sections … Punches, inserts, die sections … Rocklinize small cobalt drills … Use on progressive dies … Rocklinize special H.S.S. end mills and drills … Use it on anvils … Extends life of extrusion dies … Rocklinize canning liner and seaming chucks … Prevents slug pull back.
NORTH CAROLINA
- Rocklinize face of hammer on computer line printer … Very happy with Rocklinizer; paid for itself many times over … Has saved them thousands of dollars … Rocklinize lamination dies … Drills … Extrusion dies.
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
- Rocklinize drills, reamers, taps and cutting tools; on tools used in working with C–1110 material … Good machine – trouble free – use once a day; Rocklinize tap which previously tapped 2 holes – now does 60 holes … Very happy with it … Multiple spindle screw machines – H.S.S. cutting tools –face collets and pusher pads … Works excellently; Rocklinize wire forming dies … Building up worn tools … Rework edges of trim dies … Used Rocklinizer for years on drop forge dies … Rocklinize nail dies and cutters … Bearings and extrusion dies … Finding new applications every day … Rocklinize paper cutting knives and anvils – Make aircraft parts … Do work for Chrysler … Very happy with results …. Blanking die eliminates slugging, milling cutters and drill … Rocklinize split collets and shunt pads which grip large pipe being machined.
OKLAHOMA
- Very happy with Rocklinizer used on shears that make wire bread ties for bread wrappers … End mills – reamers for large pump manufacturers.
OREGON
- Rocklinize knives of moulder heads … On good clean cutting wood like pine, previously ran 50,000 lineal board feet before resharpening – with Rocklinizing we can go as high as 500,000 lineal feet. We have 8 moulders … Knives previously cut 1,000 feet – now Rocklinized knives cut up to 7,000 feet – Rocklinize 19’6" band saw to cut Philippine mahogany; now get 4 times life – operation time to Rocklinize blade –20 minutes.
PENNSYLVANIA
- Rocklinizing works beautifully – use every day on form tools … Rocklinize cutting tools to machine 304 stainless steel castings … End mills machining zinc and aluminum die castings and tool steel … Increasing production 100% or better … Rocklinize cams … Broaches and drills … Prevent soldering where molten metal tends to solder on dies … Paper cutting knives and anvils … Hammers used to pulverize cocoa beans … Rocklinize N.C. tools for drilling – slab and horizontal milling cutters – doubles life of tools to cut high carbon and chrome … Puts heavy coating on our feeder bowls – works great … Rocklinize H.S.S. tool edges that cut molten glass.
RHODE ISLAND
- Everything works fine – good results … Very satisfactory; wouldn’t know what to do without it – puts beautiful mottle finish on tools … Very good machine for tools for screw machining – make all their own tools – Rocklinizing lasts longer.
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Rocklinized dies stop slug pull back … Rocklinize molds that make ceramic parts … Use on spade drills, cutters, shearing punches for saw blades.
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
- Rocklinize tools to bend copper tubing … Mandrels of hollow dies … 2" twist drills … Slug pulling reduced – builds up undersized dies … Very happy – milling cutters, shell mills, circular cutters.
TEXAS
- Rocklinize drills, end mills – pleased with results … Build up undersize tools – harden cutter faces … Build up internal splines of gears expanded during heat treatment … Have used unit for several years .. Dies get twice life … Rocklinize drills and hobs for special material – get 2-3 times life … Rolls and collets.
UTAH
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
- Rocklinize dies … Outside supplier for company who specify Rocklinizing 1"wide band on 400 parts … Rocklinize motorcycle parts … Cutting tools – H.S.S. and carbide.
WASHINGTON
- Rocklinize planer knives – extends life of expensive tools several times … Impregnates knife blades of office type paper cutters – circular saw blades will cut up to 5 times longer.
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
- Rocklinize draw dies on deep draw processes … Taps … Dowel pin holes … Rocklinize screw machine form tools cutting through tough materials – previously had to shut operation down every 2 to 3 hours – Rocklinizing allowed 2–1/2 complete shifts before resharpening … Spade drills … Oil pan draw dies … Drawing operation … Cut off tools … Rocklinize milling cutters and hobs after grinding for additional hardness … Seaming chucks … Needle dies … Surfacing shafts … H.S.S. tools used on large boring mills … Dies … Punches … Die casting die gates, vents, and cores so aluminum won’t stick to H-13 steel dies.