Rossi Featured in Recent SNIPS Issue

The SMACNA Silver Associate Member talked about the birth of their company and how a spirit of innovation led to them tackling real problems on the floor.

The story behind the founding of SMACNA Associate Member Rossi was recently featured in a recent issue of SNIPS. Learn more about how the Petrossian worked to innovate past the wingnut-driven damper hardware that had been the industry standard for so long and how they embraced he round blade with a continuous bar and, later, a polymer bushing that snapped into place without the need for oversized holes or elaborate boltin

Tony Petrossian talked about the wave of innovation, “My father was fed up with the loose wingnuts and weak hardware the trade had settled for — so he built his own. The blades, the bar, the bushings, the positive-locking regulators — each one solved a real problem on the shop floor.”

Click here to read the SNIPs article on Rossi and click here to visit their website.


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