 Company History___________________________
1940 Capco®, Capital Tool & Manufacturing Company, Inc. founded by Joseph
P. Dorr in College Park,
Maryland and builds its first roll grinder in 1941.
1972 Capco® moves to Salem, Virginia.
1977 Capco® acquired by West and introduces newly designed
RG 1400
Roll Grinder.
1980 Capco® introduces newly designed `HD' - Heavy Duty Roll Grinders
for the Aluminum-, Paper- and
Steel-Industry and for roll makers, for
rolls up to 60 inches in diameter.
1981 Capco® develops proprietary CNC system and builds first CNC to
crown rolls worldwide.
1986 Capco® introduces new SuperGrinder™ Series `RG' roll grinders for
rolls
up to 24 inches in diameter and is
the first company to use all AC motors
and drives in roll grinding
machines.
1991 Capco® introduces new state-of-the-art Capco® SuperGrinder™ Series
'SG' roll grinders with integrated Capco® Roll Measuring System for
rolls up to 120 inches in diameter
and up to 300 tons in weight, marrying
the ideally traditional heavy duty
design with modern CNC controls
and digital AC motors and drives.
1991 Capco® introduces new modern and specialized Capco® SuperGrinder™
Series TT roll grinders for cluster
mill rolls in the same spirit and
technology as the
SuperGrinder™ Model SG series.
1992 Capco® builds and moves into new climate controlled state of the art
manufacturing facility in Roanoke,
Virginia.
1995 Capco® changes the company name to: Capco® Machinery
Systems, Inc.
1997 Capco® introduces the new generation of PC-based Open Architecture
Control (OAC) and the latest
measuring technology, Capco® Roll
Metrology System™.
1998 Capco® introduces the new generation of specially designed plunge
grinders for business machine and
printer rolls, SuperGrinder™ Series
'RGP', with cycle times below 30
seconds.
1998 Capco® introduces new superprecision automatic steady rests for the
SuperGrinder™ Model 'TT'
series, based on the latest technology and
on the power of the Capco® OAC control.
1999 Capco® introduces the
latest version of its OAC Control, the ABSOLUTE
all-digital Capco® OAC 10.0, entering the 21st century with the latest
available technology in grinding
machine control.
2000 Capco® introduces e-Manufacturing
to roll shops world wide. Capco®
connects its Level 1 OAC 10.0
CNC/PLC SuperGrinder™ controls to its
Level 2 RSCS roll shop computer management system and Level 3 MES
plant wide network via Capco®'s web-based internet connected
communication system. |