We celebrate Americans at work—from our manufacturing crews to our mechanical scale experts, from our product and service engineers to our technical support team. Despite the trend toward offshore manufacturing and outsourcing, we keep over 400 jobs in Wisconsin, Alabama, and Connecticut.

Rice Lake built its reputation with top quality products, affordable custom weighing solutions, quick turnaround time, and the best customer service in the weighing industry. We depend on our people for their dedication to excellence—just as they depend on us for employment. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “The best prize life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Even as we celebrate our national independence every July, we salute our customers and partners the world over. National pride is universal. In the Spring 2010 issue of Rice Lake Magazine, we feature several equipment application stories from our distributors and their customers in Mexico. You will also find technical information and valuable advice to help you and your equipment survive lightning season—the summer fireworks are not all man-made.

If you have an interesting Rice Lake equipment application, please let us know. We hope you enjoy this issue and that you will contact us with your comments, questions and suggestions.

Sincerely,

Steve M. Parkman,
Chief Operating Officer