Medart

What Medart does

Medart, Inc. is a privately held, multi-divisional industrial company that designs, manufactures, and services bar processing equipment and provides related metal processing and fabrication services to the metals industry. The company traces its origins to the early 1900s in Western Pennsylvania and operates from a 52,000 sq. ft. manufacturing and office headquarters in Ellwood City, PA, plus a fabrication and machining facility in East Palestine, OH (RBS Manufacturing). Its product portfolio centers on bar peelers, bar and shape straighteners, coil-to-coil lines, material handling systems, and bar-chamfering systems, supported by a spare parts and straightener rolls aftermarket business.

The business operates through three divisions: Medart Equipment (capital equipment design, manufacturing, and rebuilds, including refurbishment of early 20th-century machinery), Medart Processing Technologies (MPT, established 2017, providing toll bar processing services — straightening, peeling, centerless grinding, polishing, and sawing), and RBS Manufacturing (custom fabrication, machining, and assembly for industrial customers). Equipment bases include CNC horizontal machining centers (Makino, Doosan), wire EDM, centerless grinders (Cincinnati Twin Grip), heavy-duty straightening presses (Eitel), boring mills, and fabrication bays with overhead cranes up to 20 tons.

Commercially, Medart is a sales-led B2B industrial services provider with quote-based, project-negotiated pricing and no public list rates. It sells directly to metals-industry customers of all sizes, serves aerospace and general industrial manufacturing as secondary verticals (with AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 certification achieved in September 2024), and is pursuing channel expansion through trade show participation such as Titanium USA 2026. Marketing is conducted through a company website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, complemented by direct phone/email sales outreach.

Name

Medart

Legal name

Medart, Inc.

Website

https://medartglobal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1900

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Medart, Inc. is a privately held industrial company that designs, manufactures, and services bar processing equipment and provides metal processing, machining, and fabrication services to the metals industry from facilities in Ellwood City, PA and East Palestine, OH.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ellwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering Services: Custom engineering solutions for straightening, peeling, and material handling of metal bars and tubes. Includes support for complex builds and large diameter titanium tube processing.
2. Precision Machining Services: CNC machining services for single parts and large production runs. Equipment includes horizontal machining centers, lathes, and vertical machining centers.
3. Metal Fabrication Services: American-made fabrication services for existing drawings or design-build projects. Includes welding, plasma cutting, forming, and assembly.
4. Bar Processing: Comprehensive processing solutions including bar straightening, peeling, centerless grinding, and bar polishing for new-age materials and product conversion.
5. Equipment Rebuilding: Remanufacture and refurbishment of equipment ranging from early 20th-century machinery to modern equipment, with reverse engineering and 21st-century safety and technology updates.
6. Straightener Rolls: Design and build of high-quality rolls for all major straightener brands, including discontinued brands. Made from superior raw materials at competitive prices.
7. Spare Parts: Production of high-quality spare parts from unique one-off items to OEM components. Expedited delivery for urgent breakdowns to minimize downtime.
8. Field Services: On-site maintenance and repair, installation assistance, start-up support, and control system optimization at customer plants or from headquarters.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Medart designs, manufactures, and supports bar processing equipment—including bar peelers, bar and shape straighteners, coil-to-coil lines, material handling systems, and bar-chamfering systems—through its Medart Equipment division. Through Medart Processing Technologies (MPT) it provides bar processing services (straightening, peeling, centerless grinding, polishing, and sawing), and through RBS Manufacturing it provides metal fabrication, precision machining, and assembly services.

Product overview

Medart is a metal processing and equipment company serving the metals industry with a portfolio of three divisions. Medart Equipment designs, manufactures, and supports bar processing equipment including bar peelers, bar and shape straighteners, coil-to-coil lines, material handling systems, and bar-chamfering systems, along with engineering services, rebuild services, field service, spare parts, straightener rolls, and tooling. Medart Processing Technologies (MPT), established in 2017, provides bar processing services (straightening, peeling, centerless grinding, bar polishing, sawing) using Medart equipment. RBS Manufacturing offers fabrication, machining, and assembly capabilities with comprehensive equipment including boring mills, machining centers, lathes, and welding/fabrication equipment. The three divisions work together to provide a complete offering: Medart Equipment manufactures the machinery, MPT operates the equipment to provide metal processing services, and RBS handles fabrication and machining projects from prototype to full-scale production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Medart Equipment: Premier source for cutting-edge bar processing equipment. Designs, manufactures, and supports bar peelers, bar and shape straighteners, coil-to-coil lines, material handling systems, and bar-chamfering systems.
• Medart Processing Technologies (MPT)
• RBS Manufacturing

Products and services

• Medart Equipment Equipment manufacturing division that designs, manufactures, and supports bar processing equipment including bar peelers, bar and shape straighteners, coil-to-coil lines, material handling systems, and bar-chamfering systems for metals industry customers.
• Medart Processing Technologies (MPT) Bar processing services division providing straightening, peeling, centerless grinding, polishing, and sawing services using Medart's own equipment, including processing of large diameter titanium tubes.
• RBS Manufacturing Metal fabrication, precision machining, and assembly services division with capabilities including horizontal boring mills, vertical machining centers, CNC lathes, welding, plasma cutting, and full-scale production for industrial customers.
• Bar Peelers Industry-leading bar peeling equipment for processing large diameter tubes and other materials, including #3 Medart Bar Peeler and #6 Medart Bar Peeler models.
• Bar and Shape Straighteners Bar and shape straightening equipment using advanced straightening techniques with high-quality straightener rolls crafted from superior raw materials.
• Coil-to-Coil Lines Material handling systems designed for coil processing operations in metals manufacturing.
• Bar-Chamfering Systems Equipment for chamfering bar materials to meet precise specifications in metal processing operations.
• Engineering Services Custom engineering solutions for straightening, peeling, and material handling of metal bars and tubes, including support for complex builds and large diameter titanium tube processing.
• Equipment Rebuild Services Remanufacture and refurbishment of equipment ranging from early 20th-century machinery to modern equipment, with reverse engineering and 21st-century safety and technology updates.
• Straightener Rolls High-quality rolls designed and built for all major straightener brands, including discontinued brands, made from superior raw materials at competitive prices.
• Spare Parts High-quality spare parts production from unique one-off items to OEM components, with expedited delivery for urgent breakdowns to minimize customer downtime.
• Field Services On-site maintenance and repair, installation assistance, start-up support, and control system optimization delivered at customer plants or remotely from headquarters.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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App detail

Feature11 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Tishken: Tishken designs and manufactures heavy-duty bar and pipe straighteners plus related material handling equipment. It is the closest U.S.-based direct competitor to Medart Equipment's bar and shape straightener product line, serving the same metals industry with comparable capital equipment.
• Pines Manufacturing: Pines Manufacturing produces tube and bar straighteners, end finishers, and cutoff equipment for the metals industry. It directly competes with Medart in bar/tube straightening equipment and shares the same industrial customer base of metals processors.
• Butech Bliss: Butech Bliss is an Ohio-based manufacturer of rolling mill equipment, bar processing equipment, and custom heavy industrial machinery. It overlaps directly with Medart Equipment's metal bar processing machinery offering while also providing field service and rebuilds analogous to RBS Manufacturing.
• Quest Engineering & Fabrication: Quest Engineering designs and builds custom bar processing, straightening, and material handling equipment with field service support. Comparable to Medart in both the equipment design/integration business and the field services business for metals processors.

Broad incumbents

• Danieli Group: Danieli is a global metal processing equipment OEM supplying rolling mills, straighteners, peelers, and finishing lines to steel and specialty metals producers. It competes with Medart Equipment but operates at vastly greater scale across the full metals value chain rather than a niche focus.
• SMS group: SMS group is a German-headquartered global supplier of metallurgical plant and equipment for steel and non-ferrous metals, including bar and tube processing lines. It competes broadly with Medart Equipment in capital metalworking machinery from a vastly larger platform.
• ANDRITZ Group: ANDRITZ supplies metal forming and processing equipment, including strip processing and specialty metals lines. It is a broad industrial incumbent overlapping with Medart Equipment's metallurgy and process engineering capabilities.
• Fives Group: Fives Group is a French-headquartered industrial engineering group that supplies metal processing equipment, including tube and bar processing lines. Comparable to Medart in process equipment scope though serving a much larger, more international customer base.

Regional players

• Kocks International / Kocks Pittsburgh: Kocks International designs bar and wire rod rolling equipment with a North American operation historically tied to Pennsylvania. Comparable to Medart Equipment in bar processing machinery, with regional overlap but a different primary end product focus (rolling vs. straightening/peeling).

Emerging players

• Langtec (Langley Alloys): Smaller specialty metals processor focused on bar processing, straightening, and cut-to-length for aerospace and defense. Comparable to Medart Processing Technologies as a specialist service provider, though at a smaller scale and without AS9100D-equivalent certification in the public record.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@MedartGlobal
• Facebookfacebook.com/medartinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/medart-inc-

Compliance3 records

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Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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