Roll-Kraft Names New Vice President

Roll-Kraft (Mentor, OH), a leading provider of roll tooling to the tube and pipe and roll forming industry with worldwide distribution, is pleased to announce the addition of Edward Alberts, Jr. to the management team in the position of the vice president of continuous improvement. His duties include identifying opportunities to reduce lead times, with particular emphasis on meeting the company’s goals of 100 percent on-time delivery and producing tooling that provides immediate “out-of-the-box” performance to customers. He will interact with various leadership teams at each company location to identify and implement improvements.

Alberts holds a Six Sigma Green Belt and has created and facilitated numerous workshops to educate employees in lean initiatives. Currently, he is working to achieve Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and has over 20 years of experience in managing multiple distribution and manufacturing operations throughout North America. Most recently, he was the director of North American distribution operations at IEWC (New Berlin, WI). Prior to that he was the operations manager at Pragotrade (Strongsville, OH).

He received his training from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH), as well as the Lean Enterprise Institute, MRA-Institute of Management, and various other courses and programs.

Roll-Kraft is headquartered in Mentor with other facilities that include Roll-Kraft Northern (Frankfort, IL), Roll-Kraft Ltd. (Woodbridge, ON) and Roll-Kraft Texas (Houston, TX).

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