We are CORE – A Court Global Network. With more than 45 plants spanning five continents and a rich history of pioneering discoveries going back to 1919, we deliver solutions to meet your most demanding standards and tackle your toughest challenges.
Services Performed
Chrome Deposit
Total number of rolls processed world wide by core since 1982.
Texturing
Total number of rolls processed world wide by core since 1982.
Grinding
Total number of rolls processed world wide by core since 1982.
Global Network
Five continents. Dozens of results-driven innovations. Hundreds of customers. Thousands of ideas. When you work with CORE, you collaborate with global specialists who listen carefully and then apply their tenacity and innovative thinking to solutions that will benefit your bottom line.
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The benefits
With plants on five continents, CORE’s network is truly global. This brings us closer to our customers, both in terms of geography and cultural understanding, and makes our services more responsive and solutions more successful.
Plants in CORE’s network are continually redefining success through benchmarking, mentoring, global and regional conferences, on-the-fly troubleshooting and cross training—collaboration that helps our customers succeed, too.
Doing things better is built into CORE’s business model. Plants can develop specialized, technology-based solutions and niche products precisely because they are agile, innovative and customer focused.
Our plants have aligned themselves with some of the largest steel and aluminum producers on the planet, proving that our flexible business models and niche expertise make us an attractive partner and offer solid investment opportunities. Whether you are the largest or the smallest producer in the steel, aluminum or the non-ferrous industry, CORE can help you meet your customers’ most demanding requirements.
Our Partners
Since 1982, CORE has established successful joint ventures in culturally diverse settings around the world, giving our partners control over their own service delivery and an opportunity to profit from an investment with great growth opportunity and less business risk.
We don’t talk about being the leader.
We prove it.
Innovation
The way we do our business will build yours.
Values
CORE is future-focused, whether that’s exceeding environmental standards or taking a sustainable approach to our own business practices. We’re partners for the long-term.
Our “no rejects” philosophy, statistical process control, strong relationships and value added mission are the reason we’ve won dozens of awards.
Our track record of innovation includes developing indispensable technologies for both the automotive and white goods industries, and revolutionizing work rolls in the steel and aluminum industry.
Our plants are entrepreneurial “focused factories”—the best model to consistently deliver competitively-priced, high-quality, customized products to global giants.
Members of the CORE network share non-proprietary cutting-edge information and offer on-demand advice ensuring creative problem-solving and concrete solutions for customers.
You’ll often hear our leadership team say that we work 60% in the interest of our partners and 40% in our own interest—because, in the end, our success depends on yours.
We earn our business because of the value we provide and our accountability to results, not because of the promise of favors or simply because we’ve worked with you before.
CORE’s plants are small, nimble, and run relatively independently of head office, allowing us to respond quickly to your evolving needs and easily flex to local requirements and culture.
Our people are the true innovators. That’s why CORE offers rewarding jobs with the power to influence the direction of the company in terms of quality, production and capital spending.
Living our values
We meet or exceed the most rigorous environmental and safety standards. We also carefully manage our assets and make prudent financial decisions so we’ll be here to serve you for decades to come.
CORE offers flexibility and fast decision-making. We can develop services for new products, adapt existing technology to new processes and even adapt our business model to meet your needs.
CORE’s global plants leverage knowledge across both corporate and geographic boundaries. But each plant retains its local flavor, ensuring cultural competence and specialized expertise.
More experience.
More services.
Better results.
It’s how we roll.
Services
When you work with CORE global network, innovation, best practices, environmental stewardship and safety compliance come standard. We do not just invest in state-of-the-art equipment, we leverage our worldwide network to deliver best practice know-how and execution. Our approach is collaborative. Our services are customized. And if you become a Joint Venture Partner, you can be an owner, too.
CORE was the first company to offer full roll shop services under one roof at our customers’ plants. The volume of work we do worldwide means we can easily meet your unique specs, processes and regulatory requirements. The diverse expertise of each plant in the CORE global network means we learn from the best—ourselves. It’s how we ensure top quality results and peace of mind for our customers—both today and tomorrow.
CORE’s proprietary technology produces chrome deposits that are 25 per cent harder than traditional chrome plating. We apply chrome to hundreds of thousands of work rolls each year—a level of experience that is unmatched in the industry.
Our environmental precautions meet the most stringent regulations, and we always apply these rigorous standards whether they’re required or not. Chrome deposit is offered onsite at cold mills as part of our full roll shop service, and offsite at one of our plants for cold mills.
Others may offer texturing, but no one can match CORE’s length and breadth of experience, or our commitment to engineering the surface to meet customer needs. In terms of numbers, we texture more rolls in North America than our competitors do worldwide. In terms of surface roughness, no one can match the range of Ra that we can produce.
CORE revolutionized the white goods and automotive industries with electro-discharge texturing (EDT) and has since invested significantly in research and development to meet customer needs for special requirements and unique applications. Our patented EDT Superfinish™ process takes texturing to the next level by removing the highest peaks on the EDT surface for improved homogeneity and longer roll life.
Ship your rolls to a CORE plant for grinding and you’ll get the highest quality surface possible through our unique blend of superior technology and expert technicians.
Using closed loop computer-controlled grinding systems we can precision-grind all shapes to spec for your industry, be it metals, paper or plastics, with a degree of accuracy that can exceed +/- 2 microns. Surface quality is ensured through low-level bruise and crack detection using eddy current, surface wave and deep sonic equipment. We can even reduce machine downtime using remote diagnostics.
All technicians are highly trained on our state-of-the-art equipment, with annual courses and frequent refreshers. Knowledge sharing and troubleshooting is facilitated through the CORE global network.
CORE’s skilled team understands that the only way to keep rolls out of the ‘roll hospital’ and maintain the quality that our customers demand is to understand every step of the roll shop process. We pay impeccable attention to detail when we remove the chock and bearing assemblies and replace them onto the rolls as well as taking care of the roll journals that the bearing assemblies are affixed to. This ensures that the quality of your rolls is never compromised and avoids the domino effect of damaged rolls as they move on in the manufacturing process.
When an accessory or mill roll is damaged, CORE can complete the repair to original specification using the same turning, grinding, milling and welding expertise and technology that makes us a leader in the surfacing of new rolls. Come to CORE for lathing, journal repairs, straightening and weld build-up, whether you need a complete or partial repair. Best of all, we offer repair, chroming and precision grinding under one roof, providing an integrated solution for your roll requirements.