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32 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST April/May 2018 R oncelli Plastics is headed into their 50th year of business, and even after 30+ years with the com- pany CEO Riley Cole is still blown away by the parts and processes. The San Gabriel valley was ripe with manufacturing in 1969 when Gino Roncelli set up shop in Monrovia, Ca. The early days saw every job that could be cut on a band saw, drilled on a drill press, or machined on a manual lathe and Bridgeport mill come through the door. All work was wel- come, as long as it wasn’t metal. “Our concentration has always been with non-metallic,” tells Roncelli Plastic’s CEO Riley Cole. “Over the years the materials and our abilities have changed, but not our core focus. I’ve been with the company for 36 years and the parts we make now just blow my mind. We are manufacturing parts that were not possible even 5 years ago.” Roncelli Plastics has come along way since the days of making circuit type boards and gauge windows. They grew with the technology and began manufacturing mechanical parts out of generic materials like Nylon or Del- rin. Now it is high tech materials like PEEK, Torlon and Ves- pel that get manufactured on 5 axis machining centers. Roncelli Plastics was an early adopter of CNC and they continue to upgrade their manufacturing technologies. “We got our first CNC machine tool in the early 80’s,” details Ri- FAST - CLEAN - PRECISE Left - 3D printing started out as an experiment for Roncelli Plastics in 2009, but now it is a key feature in their manufacturing process. Right - The ISO Class 1000 clean room is cleaner than a surgery suite with less then 1000 particles per million. RONCELLI PLASTICS Article by S ean Buur Photos by Sean Buur & Provided by Roncelli Plastics CEO Riley Cole, COO Chris Cole, Founder Gino Roncelli