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2008
Guild International Named to Prestigious List of Weatherhead 100

The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) has named Guild International to their list of the most successful companies in Northeast Ohio in 2008. For 21 years, the Weatherhead 100 has been the coveted list on which Northeast Ohio companies strive to appear. It recognizes the growth and success of local businesses and demonstrates the strength of entrepreneurial spirit in the region. The Weatherhead 100 identifies the 100 top-growth companies in Northeast Ohio based on sales from 2003 through 2007. Companies on this list must have had sales of more than $100,000 in 2003 and more than $1 million in 2007. In addition, the companies on this list must have had a minimum of 16 full-time employees in 2007.

2008
Guild International Reaches 50 Years of Operation

Guild International has announced that 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of its beginnings. In 1958, Mr. Donald Wheeler, father of current president, Mr. Michael Wheeler, began what was then known as Guild Metal Equipment Company, a manufacturer of shear welders for the tube and pipe industry. At the time, Mr. Donald Wheeler, as a salesman for a welding equipment manufacturer, noticed a increasing demand for better quality in welding equipment, one that was not being met by his then employer. Mr. Wheeler began his fledgling company dedicated to producing high-quality, reliable equipment, a philosophy the company continues to abide by today.

In 1964, Guild Metal Equipment Company was one of the first USA-based welding equipment manufacturers to begin shipping its products overseas. As the company continued to grow, serving worldwide markets, the company eventually changed its name to Guild International in the mid 1970’s.

Over the years, Guild International has registered over 25 patents, attesting to the company’s highly developed engineering and manufacturing capabilities. During the 1980’s the company brought to the industry several resistance welding machines, which are now a large part of the company’s revenues. In 1983, Mr. Michael Wheeler took over the reins of the company as President, allowing his father to eventually retire.

Today, Guild International is a world supplier of coil end joining equipment for the steel processing, tube producing and stamping industries serving countries throughout the world.
 

October 2005
Another First From Guild International

Guild has recently commissioned two welders installed in a combination continuous rolling mill, annealing and pickling line for stainless steel. This, the first line of its kind in the world, processes a very wide range of strip thicknesses, from 0.6mm up to 6.0mm. The strip width is up to 1,350mm. A wide variety of grades of stainless steel are processed and reductions up to 70% are achieved in this line.

 Continuous Coil - Coil Joiners
Guild supplied one of their model QMM seam welders with three phase DC welding to make very high quality seam welds on strip from 0.6mm to 2.0mm thick that are reduced in the three stand rolling mill. This is a first time a seam welder has been applied for such a demanding application. A Guild model RCM Zipwelder was also supplied in the entry of this line to make MIG butt welds on strip from 1.2 up to 6.0mm thick. These MIG welds are also reduced up to 70%. Two MIG welding torches are used, even on 400 series stainless steel, to reduce the overall weld cycle time. Guild has extensive experience making rollable welds on stainless steel, silicon steel, copper alloys, and aluminum. Guild has supplied 7 other welders to this customer over the past 15 years for other continuous lines and excellent results have been realized with the prior welders.
 

April 2005
Guild Supplies Jumbo Supercoil Accumulator

Guild International, Inc of Bedford Ohio has recently completed the installation and start up of a Supercoil Accumulator on a 25" diameter pipe mill at Shanghai Tianbao, in China. This Supercoil is designed to accumulate strip up to .760" thick (19mm) by 80" wide (2.0 meters). This Supercoil provides up to 1440 feet (440 meters) of storage to allow for the coil changeover on the entry end without stopping the mill. This Supercoil holds up to ONE MILLION pounds of the customer's material.

 Coil Joining Equipment - Continuous Coil
The Guild Supercoil was chosen due to its simple operation, rugged design and due to Guilds extensive experience supplying large Supercoils on large mills throughout the world. The Supercoil is the only large accumulator that takes advantage of the strips natural tendency to expand by feeding the strip into the center of the machine and then letting the strip expand down rollers to the outside diameter. This simple concept reduces stress on the strip and on the accumulator, thereby reducing noise and reducing maintenance. A very well organized program resulted in an on time start up of the pipe mill project.