During our 110 years of service to the metalworking industries, RichardsApex has seen the machining industry mature into a very sophisticated and demanding field. Our range of products reflects these changes, as we offer the entire spectrum of lubricant types required in today's intensive world of extended tool life, bio-stability, cleanliness and critical surface requirements. From conventional soluble oils, to semi-synthetics, to true synthetics, RichardsApex has a product.

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REELEX® tangle-free technology is a patented method of winding a filamentary product into a figure-eight coil on a specialized coiling machine. This coiling method cancels any twist in the product by using a traverse to guide the product back and forth across the coil while winding. These twists cancel each other out as the coil is dispensed, resulting in low-tension, smooth payout without any twists, kinks, snags, or tangles.

Located 20 minutes north of Fresno, Madera is the home to Carris Reels' West Coast operations. Founded in 1966 in Yelm, Washington as "Wood Fabricators," to supply customers in the Pacific Northwest. It became Carris Reels of California in July 1991 and moved to a larger, more modern facility in 1995.

Monterrey, Mexico is Carris Plastics Group's newest facility opened for business in a brand-new, 65,000 square foot plant and added an additional 20,000 square feet in 2012. Monterrey is Carris Reels' fourth location - along with Rutland, VT, Fincastle, VA and McKinney, TX - dedicated to molding, extrusion and recycling of plastic reels and custom parts.