Cocoa Business Spotlight: RF Works

Radio frequency welding is a technology that's been around since the early 40s. It's a process in which you use electricity, turn it into a radio frequency that is then applied to weld two pieces of material together. It's the same process used to make the seal on the outside of an IV bag, a water mattress, all kinds of packaging at your stores, whether it be Costco, Walmart, and so forth. We use that technology to put the logos and names of companies, sports teams, into the seats for stadium seating, locker rooms on the players' tables, the taping stations, also seats of boat companies. We find that you want to embroider shirts. You don't want to embroider seats. When using RF ‸ welding, there's no holes, there's no thread to go wrong. We take a virgin vinyl, we make a logo out of that vinyl, we weld it to the vinyl that goes in the seat. They have now become one piece. That's a permanent and it will last as long as the initial material does. My father was approached in 1998 by someone from Brunswick Corp,

who asked him some questions about making logos for them. Is there a better way to do it than embroidery? He knew that he could use RF welding to make the parts if he developed the correct tooling and so forth. I went to work here in 2004 with my father. Got to spend nine years with him. He passed away in 2013. And today we're still ‸ growing every year and still doing the same work. We have a total of seven people.

We've just started a new line of work and at that point we'll be hiring, I would say,

maybe

three more people. And that'll take us to ten. That'll be the biggest we've been.

ever since. This industrial park is fantastic.

I've enjoyed working in this area for the last 20 years. The proximity to the village and good restaurants and everything you need is right around here. I don't imagine RF

It's very easy for me to ship parts to Miami and just as easy as

it

is to Jacksonville. We can be a supplier to the whole Southeast region and we are. And the clients like that because it's easy.