Saturday, February 24, 2007

Working outside the box: Robinson Custom Enclosures pushes the boundaries in development and fabrication of machine enclosures

It's very easy for even the most successful companies to become pigeonholed, associated in people's minds as specializing in just one small area. For example, when considering Robinson Custom Enclosures, what no doubt comes to mind for a lot of people is the image of a company that focuses on enclosures for smaller generator set packages, primarily in the Midwest.

That's accurate as far as it goes. Yet in reality, that image of Robinson misses the full range of capabilities the De Pete, Wis., company can bring to the table by a wide mile. Robinson can supply highly engineered enclosures for packages in excess of 2 MW and can build and outfit trailers and containers of all sizes--and not just for power generation systems, as demonstrated by a specialized enclosure designed for a global manufacturer of railway maintenance equipment.

"Before I got here in 2001, they really didn't have anyone in sales," said David Oshefsky, national sales manager at Robinson. "They had sold everything through word of mouth and reputation

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