On this episode of Rottler Featured Series join us at East Holmes Auto Repair and Holmes Performance and Machine in Millersburg, Ohio.

Co-owners Steve Troyer and Casey Butler founded East Holmes in 2016. Today they’re a full service automotive performance and industrial machine shop with a particular focus on work trucks and fleet vehicles.

Knowing that many of their customer depend on the vehicles and equipment to get their work done, East Holmes puts attention to detail on everything they send out the door. “We want to give our customers peace of mind,” Troyer said.

As part of that dedication to quality, one of East Holmes’ first investments was in an H85AX automatic hone. A short time later they added an EM79 engine machining center that gives them the ability to machine everything from a 4 cylinder block all the way up to Cat C15s, Detroits, and even bigger blocks.

“Often times there’s promises made but not promises kept. That’s not true with Rottler,” Troyer told us. “If they say they’re going to do it, they do it.”

“And its not just the machines, it’s the relationships we’ve made with other people in this industry through Rottler. That’s just been huge,” Butler added.

Here at Rottler, we’re proud to call East Holmes a customer and partner. Check out their story!

In this episode of Rottler Featured Series, we’re in McCool Junction, Nebraska home of Donrich Machine a full-service machine shop focused on agricultural and industrial diesel and gas engines.

Corey Schlegelmilch, owner of Donrich Machine tells us he bought the business about 20 years ago, starting out as a one-man shop in a 2,000 square foot building with a handful of equipment. Since then, he’s grown Donrich into a thriving business with a team of employees and a new 7,200 square foot facility.

Being located in America’s heartland it’s no surprise that a good portion of their business is servicing the workhorse diesels that keep the water flowing and the crops growing in the farm fields of the Midwest. Donrich services a lot of engines like Cummin ISXs, CAT C15s and Detroit 60s. To get that work done quickly and done right, they’re using the Rottler EM79 engine machining center along with the H85AX automatic hone and an S80 series surfacer.

According to Corey, one of the big advantages using Rottler equipment is the ability to work on a diesel and then switch it up to machine gas V8 with near zero downtime. Plus, with the increased speed and accuracy of Rottler’s CNC technology, he knows it’s going to be spot on with the machining specifications.

We asked one of Corey’s machinists and told us what he appreciates about the Rottler equipment is anyone can learn it. It only takes a few minutes to master and, unlike other machines, you don’t need to stand there and watch it to make sure it’s working. “You hit the button and walk away,” he said. “You’re free to go work on something else.”

Corey summed it up pretty well. “I’ve been using Rottler equipment since I started in this. They always build a good product, they support it, and you know they’re going to be around for a long time,” he said.

He’s right too. Thanks to customers like Donrich Machine, we’re celebrating our 102nd anniversary this year and we’re looking forward to 102 more!

Check out the video. And, if you’re in Donrich’s part of the country and in need of service on your ag equipment, make sure to give them a call!

For this episode of Rottler Featured Series we go to Bolivar, Tennessee, home of Choate Engineering Performance; one of North America’s leading specialists in diesel engine performance, parts, and remanufacturing.

Over the past decade, Choate has made a name for itself taking factory diesel engines – Cummins, Powerstroke, Duramax, you name it – and re-building them to run longer and perform better than when they first rolled off the factory floor. As part of that dedication to durability and performance, the company not only builds better diesels, but manufactures its own engine parts, making it one of the most respected and successful diesel specialists in the country. (They build over 500 diesels a year!)

Naturally, Choate is a big Rottler customer, and their facility floor features a full suite of our CNC equipment including seat & guide machines, hones, engine centers, and multi-purpose machining centers. As Choate & company note, one of the main advantages of standardizing on Rottler engine building equipment is every machine in the line-up uses the same interface, so once a team member is trained on one machine, he’s trained on all of them — a huge time and money saver. (It doesn’t hurt that one guy can manage multiple machines simultaneously either!)

Not content to rest with past success, Choate is now expanding into the high horsepower and heavy-duty diesels used in mining, oil and gas, and marine applications. As a result, there’s a new Rottler EM104 machining center on the shop floor giving them the ability to re-man the big diesels like 3516 Caterpillars, Waukeshas, AMDs, and MTUs, with the same speed, performance and precision Choate delivers in its on-highway diesel rebuilds.

We’re proud of Rottler’s partnership with Choate Performance Engineering and looking forward to many more years of helping deliver new quality standards in diesel performance and parts manufacturing.

For this episode of the Rottler Featured Series we head to Lexington, Kentucky, home of SRC of Lexington Engine Remanufacturers.

SRC of Lexington specializes in engine reman for the high horsepower, heavy duty engines used in mining, heavy construction, landfill operations, and gas generation. To bring these monster blocks back to a condition as good, and often better than, new, the team at SRC of Lexington relies on a suite of Rottler’s biggest and best machines including the F60 series engine centers, S80 surfacers, and a team of EM100 series to machine the monster blocks they work on.

SRC of Lexington has relied on Rottler equipment to get the job done for 22 years, and we are proud to be a partner with this great employee-owned company.

Check out the video!