It’s a wonderful experience working with the entire KVF team! They go above and beyond with their customer service and their turnaround/lead times! The business relationship that has been built with KVF is appreciated. Keep up the great work!
KVF Quad Corporation
KVF Quad Corporation is a top supplier in mechanical metal finishing and powder coat painting in the Midwest Region. Serving Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. KVF has the capability to process small parts to large assemblies, never turning away from any challenge.
Marcie Mills
Black Cat Wear Parts
Lisa Wertzbaugher
Superior Tube Products
KVF Quad has been a strategic partner for us in pursuing new business. We work together as a team to launch to new projects.
Mike Baugh
Iowa Spring
I would refer them to anyone who needs powder coating or shot blasting done. We send many parts of all shape and sizes to them and get great results. Their quality, lead time, customer service and pricing is great. From when they receive our parts to when they send them back the service is great.
Powder Coating
KVF Quad Corporation is the Quad Cities expert on powder coat painting. Our paint application facilities can adapt to a wide range of size, shape, quantity and special components to satisfy the complex needs of our customers.
Abrasive Blast Finishing
Abrasive blast finishing (air blasting) cleans and removes scale, rust, marking, previous coatings or weld splatter from component surfaces by propelling media using compressed air.
Shot Blasting
Shot blasting is an aggressive process used to generate anchor surface, remove tight mill scale, previous coatings or foundry slag, and leave components with a uniform exterior surface finish.
Vibratory Finishing
Using a variety of equipment types and sizes plus an array of media types, KVF Quad’s vibratory finishing services yield exceptional results in mass finishing customer parts.
Ultrasonic Cleaning
In parts cleaning application, ultrasonic vibrations generate sound waves in a cleaning solution leaving parts exceptionally clean and exceeding many industry standards.
Parts Cleaning
Parts cleaning is essential to many industrial processes as a prelude to surface finishing or to protect sensitive components. KVF Quad offers abrasive and nonabrasive cleaning options as well as a five-stage wash for our customers.
Shot Peening
Shot peening has many useful applications across a handful of industries, most notably increasing the life span of a part. This process produces a compressive residual stress layer of metal on parts such as gears, cams and camshafts, clutch springs, coil springs, connecting rods, crankshafts, gearwheels, and turbine blades.
Testing Services at KVF Quad Corporation
Many of our clients require certification or part finishing that meets industry standards. At KVF Quad, we help our clients meet required criteria in many industries, including agriculture, aerospace, automotive, government, medical, construction equipment, and more.
Thermal Paint Removal
A more effective and eco-friendly option to remove paint from parts, thermal paint removal at KVF Quad can accommodate a multitude of part types and sizes. Designed to reduce dependence on costly and dangerous chemical stripping compounds, thermal heat cleaning ovens effectively reduce all potential waste to ash.
Other Product Services
At KVF Quad, we offer a variety of added services beyond metal finishing to relieve our customers of extra steps or hiring another company to complete minor tasks. These services are easily paired with metal finishing projects and can help create a higher quality, longer lasting product for the customer.
Laser Oxide Removal
As thermal cutting processes in the metalworking industry increases, the need to remove the oxidation produced by those processes has also increased. Laser oxide removal is a great solution for customers needing clean, quality parts.
Equipment Sales
Media Supplier
New Equipment: ALMCO
New Equipment: Empire
New Equipment: Rosler
New Equipment: Clemco
KVF Quad Quality
Since 1997, KVF Quad Corporation’s quality management system has been ISO Certified, and continues to maintain our qualifications to the most current revisions.
KVF has a long history of providing quality products to customers such as Case-New Holland, Caterpillar, John Deere and a host of other companies who provide quality parts to the agricultural, aerospace, automotive, medical and construction industries.
Quality processes and services are accomplished through:
- Monitoring customer satisfaction
- Using quality suppliers and products
- Practicing continual improvement policies
- Minimizing rework and waste
- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effective Analysis)
KVF’s quality policy and motto “To meet or exceed our customer’s expectations” reflects how actions bear testimony towards our total commitment. Listening to our customer, determining needs, defining product requirements and applying measures ensure our processes provide consistent uniform results and continuous customer satisfaction.
Our ISO registrar, ITS Intertek Services, assesses our current certification for conformity annually. External, internal and ‘customer’ conducted second part audit results are available for review upon request.
Environmental Policy
Products/Systems Testing
KVF Quad: Who We Are
The KVF History
Making our home in East Moline, IL, KVF Quad Corporation has been open for business since 1976. Originally starting in Rock Island, IL, former President and Owner Mike Crotty built the company into a fully staffed professional job shop serving a customer base of 600 companies, and growing. The current ownership team continues to pursue growth through new and innovative processes and operations. Since the beginning, vibratory mass finishing served as the core of KVF Quad’s business. To continue to meet our customers’ expectations, other processes such as powder coat painting, ultrasonic cleaning, thermal paint removal, abrasive blast finishing and shot peening were added to our internal capabilities which created a market niche for KVF Quad within the agricultural, aerospace, automotive, government, medical and construction equipment industries. As KVF Quad looks to the future, we’re focused on providing exceptional service and quality to our customers, while striving to create a premier work environment for our employees.
Affiliation
Highly Qualified Team
Mike Robinson
Shipping and Receiving Supervisor
Paul Miller Jr.
Shipping and Receiving Clerk
Ellen Anderson
Accounts Payable Specialist
Jesus Lopez
Job Shop Supervisor
Melody Watters
Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable / HR
Martin Mayers
Inside Sales
Chris Gorge
Quality Technician