Starting next week, the company known as Frommelt Safety Products will be known officially as Rite-Hite Machine Guarding. Company officials said the name change is part of an overall initiative to further strengthen and focus the Rite-Hite brand, which owns the Frommelt Safety Products line.
While the name will change, the product line will remain the same. Rite-Hite Machine Guarding will continue to focus on manufacturing machine guarding products such as automated barrier doors, industrial fencing and retractable curtains for robotic and automated welding processes in metal manufacturing, automotive, material handling, paper/packagin, and plastics, among other industries.
The brand names also will remain the same. These include Defender, Flashfold, Vertiguard, SlideAir, Rollshield, Rollshield Side-to-Side, X-Ten and Roboguard Fence.
Eric Esson, Rite-Hite’s Machine Guard’s national sales and marketing manager, said that while the name may be different, the quality will be the same.
“This name change clarifies who we are, what we offer, and emphasizes Rite-Hite’s commitment to improving industrial safety though quality and innovation,” Esson said in a company news release. “We want our customers to know that the machine guarding products are and always have been a part of the Rite-Hite family of innovative, high-quality products.”
Rite Hite makes, sells and services loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, HVLS fans, industrial curtain walls and other products designed to improve safety, security, productivity, energy consumption and environmental control. It is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.