2019 Plating Classes at Elite Finishing LLC

Customers, suppliers, and friends of Reliable Plating Works and Elite Finishing are all welcome to our free plating classes every Friday in February!

This is a great opportunity to learn more about Nickel/Chrome Plating.  We make it easy to understand the complexities of getting a part to look great and perform properly in the field.  This is a great class for engineers, designers, buyers, customer service personnel and quality professional.

The class will be held at:
Elite Finishing LLC
3270 S 3rd Street
Milwaukee, WI 53207

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Plating Class Agenda

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Registration and Working Lunch (We Supply Lunch)
–Video with explanation of plating process
–The Basics of Polishing
–The Basics of Vibratory Finishing
–The Basics of Plating

1:00 pm-1:45 pm
Plant Tour – See what it takes to get a part Chrome plated
–Receiving and polishing to plating and shipping

1:45 – 2:15 pm
Cost Drivers & Information Necessary to Make Accurate Quotes
–Run rates, quality, yield, shape and process capability
–Material Choices (Cost, Cosmetics, weight, etc.)
–Steel and Stainless Steel – Forged, Stamped or Cast
–Aluminum – Forged, Stamped, Cast or Machined
–Brass – Stamped, Cast or Machined

2:15 – 3:00 pm
Show and Tell
–Our stories of problems and fixes
–Your stories of problems needing fixes

For any questions please contact:
Jaime Maliszewski – 414-397-2171 or jaimem@rpwinc.net
​Scott Alberti – 414-397-0868 or scotta@rpwinc.net

Zombie Shoot Team Building

You don’t want to miss this event. It is limited to the first 15 applicants and is one of our most fun events of the year!

This event is held at THE SHOOTERS SPORT CENTER IN RACINE WI and will be held this March with the final date to be announced soon so watch for it.  We start at 9:30 at The Shooters Sport Center with safety instruction and rules.  We hand out safety glasses and hearing protection and explain what we will be all doing once we get into the range area.  We will have several different types of weapons to shoot and will also have a station for any whom want to shoot their own weapon.

Safety will be our number one emphasis; fun will be number two! Watch for our next newsletter to get final date and times! Check out the video below for footage from our last Zombie Shot Team Building event!

Zombie Shoot 2018

The RPW/Elite Family wishes you a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!

RPW and Elite Finishing will be shut down on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd to celebrate Thanksgiving and to spend time with our families.  We will be back up and running on Monday the 26th.  Please call us for any needs and we will do our best to get them taken care of around this shutdown.

May God Bless you and yours on this great holiday of thanks!

Christmas and New Year’s Schedule

Reliable Plating Works, Inc. and Elite Finishing LLC will be closed on the following days so that our employees and their families can celebrate Christmas and the New Year together.

We will be closed December 24th and 25th for Christmas and January 1st for New Year’s Eve. During December 26th to December 28th, both companies will be open but not plating due to annual Preventive Maintenance.

Please contact us so that we can deal with any projects you need completed before this shutdown so that we can make the appropriate adjustments to schedules.

The RPW/ELITE Family wishes you and yours the very best during this Holiday!   Hope you and yours have time to spend together and enjoy this time!

RPW AND ELITE FINISHING ARE TWO OF ONLY 12 COMPANIES NATIONWIDE TO BE NAMED TOP SHOP EVERY YEAR SINCE THE AWARD STARTED

We are extremely proud of our people for being so dedicated to our company and procedures.  Our staff is our lifeblood and we know that these awards do not happen without them.  This award is a result of their hard work and a drive to give our customers the best possible service and product available.

Being a TOP SHOP is important, but being a close family is more important.  Mom and Dad, I guess it may be a little too late to get a fourth Brother for this fourth award, so we will have our fourth generation employee and nephew Kollin Koralewski (Environmental Manager for both plants) handle the fourth award.

The TOP SHOPS AWARD comes from Products Finishing Magazine, which is an international trade magazine for the metal finishing industry.  They have hundreds of entries and only 50 shops nationwide get this honor.  To have 2 shops listed in the TOP 50 shops in the nation every year that they have done this award is a HUGE honor that we truly appreciate.

Thank you Products Finishing for including us in your TOP SHOPS AWARD program.  We will continue to work hard to be worthy of a fifth award next year.

Celebrating Long Term Employees Jose Lopez and his 40 years with us and Tom “Tucker” Gulland, 36 years

Our staff is very loyal and we are celebrating some very big anniversaries this year.  Jose Lopez is celebrating 40 years with us this month and Tom “Tucker” Gulland is celebrating 36 years of loyal service.

Jose Lopez is the Plant Manager of Elite Finishing LLC, he started as a Racker at RPW when he was just 17 years old and worked his way up through all facets of the company.  His wife Maria is our lead inspector at RPW and his daughter, Lupita, is our lead inspector at Elite Finishing LLC.  Jose was very well known in the community for his play on the Soccer field and his coaching,  He and Maria now are enjoying their most loved new position as Grandparents to Lucas who keeps them very busy when they are not at work.

Tom “Tucker” Gulland is our Plant Manager at Reliable Plating Works, Inc and like Jose he also started at the age of 17 and worked his way up through every department.  Our employees are like family and we truly love the loyalty they show.  Tucker, as everyone knows him, spends his time away from work helping the Little League teams and making sure the games run smoothly and the snack shop is stocked.  He likes watching his son play football and baseball for his high school.  He also has two daughters that are in college and doing great.  We could not find a picture of Tucker when he first started as we are pretty sure all the pictures with his Mullet were destroyed.

Both of these men treat the company as if it was their own, they are extremely loyal and hardworking men and we truly appreciate all that they give to our Company!  Please congratulate these two when you speak to them.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!  

RPW AND ELITE FINISHING HOURS THE WEEK OF THE 4th

Those that know me know how patriotic I am and also know how important this day is for my family and me. We hope you all take time out to remember why this day is possible and still have time to enjoy this day with your family. Below is a link to a recording that I think is a great reminder for all of us.

Watch Now

RPW and Elite will be working Monday through Thursday the week of the fourth as our employees chose to make this a three day weekend. We will not be open on Friday July 6th.

St Joseph Academy Golf Outing – Monday, July 16

Lunch: 11 am
Tee Time: Noon
Dinner: 6 pm
Lunch, Gift, Cart, Golf and Dinner all included in price

Saint Joseph Academy is our favorite charity. Our family has been involved helping the sisters in this community for over 50 years. They hold a special place in our hearts. This golf outing is a huge money maker for them and helps them each year in their drive to help at risk kids get a Christian education. What is best about what they do is that these children not only learn History, Math, English and the like, but they learn life skills and confidence. If you come to this event you will meet some of the students and be amazed at how well adjusted they are. Well on their way to becoming amazing young adults.

Please help us with this event. Many of our great suppliers are helping by having a team in this event or donating prizes and money. We are so grateful for their help and really appreciate all that they do. We will not forget the help they gave to SJA.

Recently, I was asked to play in a golf outing.  At first I said, “No.”
Then they said to me, “Come on it’s for very young children.”
Then I thought,  “Darn, I could win this thing.”

Sign up below, or contact Jaime Maliszewski at jaimem@rpwinc.net or 414-397-2171 to see how you can help. Thanks in advanced to any and all who help this super charity.

Sign Up

Happy Easter!

The Reliable Plating Works and Elite Finishing Family wishes you and yours the best Easter. Hope you have great fun and joy with your family celebrating Easter.

March Zombie Shoot was a Great Time!!!

We had 15 customers and suppliers join us for some exciting range time. We all had a blast, pun intended. Thanks to Ric at Thureon Defense for bringing his two full auto 9mm AR’s and JCAA Ammunition for all the 9mm and .45acp ammo as we went through over 4000 rounds. We all shot pistols, a lever action rifle, a .45 ACP AR rifle, and even a .44 Magnum revolver.

Check out the videos and see how much fun we all had. Make sure you join us next year as we want to make this annual event the most fun of them all. The people that were at this shoot already think it is the most fun of all.

We are currently researching the need to add a Tri Valent Chrome line to our list of processes

Please let us know if you have interest and or projects for this process. If we find that there is enough interest we would be willing to set up one of our automatic lines to run this process. Let us know if you have needs for Tri Valent Chrome plating.

Scott Alberti
414-397-0868
scotta@rpwinc.net

Jaime Maliszewski
414-397-2171
jaimem@rpwinc.net