Welding, Fabrication, and Paint
Our fabrication department is equipped to handle a wide variety of product applications.  We primarily build large switchgear enclosures, but routinely make products ranging from small mounting brackets to large scale manufacturing equipment.  Our equipment includes a CNC punch press, CNC waterjet, CNC plasma cutter, several CNC press brakes, a CNC shear, as well as a number of manual ironworkers, saws, and brakes.  We have manufactured both bolt-together and welded construction enclosures.  We also have a powder coat paint line for applying a high quality durable finish to all our fabricated products. 

Molding
We specialize in molding cycloaliphatic epoxy resin materials using the automatic pressure gelation process.  We have ten clamping presses ranging in various sizes. 

Our largest press has a platen size of 48” x 60” and can mold parts weighing as much as 150 lbs.  Our most recent clamping press was custom designed and built in-house for a specific customer application. 

We perform our own compounding and have the ability to mix our own molding resins.  We can formulate proprietary resin systems best suited to the customer’s product.  We also have the capability to X-ray inspect, thermal cycle test, and high voltage test our components to inspect for defects.

Engineering & Design
Our engineering team is dedicated to providing support to our customers.  Our experienced staff includes electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering specialists.  The experience of our staff, combined with our broad product offering, provides unique insight into solving many of the design problems unique to the electrical equipment industry. 

At Reuel, we work closely with our customers to find the best solutions for their specific applications.  Our support can include designing special features up to designing and building complete systems.  We also have a range of testing capabilities to conduct many design and performance tests during the development phase.  

Reuel uses the latest engineering software to assist in our design.  Our engineering and design team is equipped with the latest CAD capability to provide accurate and detailed drawings.  We make full use of Autodesk Inventor ® 3-D solid-model design program. This capability allows us to provide our customers with highly detailed 3-D visual representations of the products we produce before we manufacture them.  In addition to Inventor, we also use AutoCAD and Solid Works.  Our CAD/CAM programming capability allows us to quickly translate drawings from design to our manufacturing processes. 

In addition to our CAD capabilities and software, we also use various circuit simulation and data acquisition packages for electrical and electronics design and testing.

Testing
Testing is an integral part of our manufacturing process.  We perform various mechanical, chemical, and electrical tests on our products both during the design phase and as production quality checks.   We routinely X-ray inspect our molded parts for voids or defects.  We can perform thermal testing in our thermal cycling chamber for temperatures ranging from -60°C to 180°C.  Our electrical testing capabilities include AC dielectric up to 100kV, Basic Impulse Level (BIL) up to 150kV, continuous current to 10kA DC or 5kA AC, transformer-rectifier, heat run testing up to 3 MW.  Using our mechanical test equipment, we can perform axial tension, compression, and 3 point beam, as well as cantilever loading.