About Rilco Manufacturing

History

It all started in 1972 when the young Anthony Zagorski (Tony), who served in the US Navy as a pilot from 1965 to 1969, left a stock broker job and moved south, bought a small pipe insulation shop called Rilco in Clute, Texas to start his business endeavor.

Since day one, Tony’s philosophy has always been “keep the cost low but don’t compromise quality and safety“. Those were the reasons that helped Rilco earned a pipe support insulation contract in Australia in 1981.

In late 1980’s, Tony’s two sons Ken and Brett, upon graduating from college, joined Rilco to help run the continued growing business. With the idea of “one-stop-shop” for clients, Tony and his sons expanded Rilco’s product lines to include structural supports, Variable and Constant spring hangers. This expansion required Rilco to look a for larger manufacturing facility. In early 1997, Tony moved Rilco 100 miles north into a brand-new corporate office and much bigger manufacturing space in Houston,

In 2016, with sales volume increased coupled with the addition of Rilco Cam Roller and Arogel insulation to the Rilco product lines, the manufacturing space was no longer adequate. Tony, once again, was forced to relocate Rilco to a brand-new and much larger facility. This time, it was only a mile away and still is Rilco’s current address.

Leader in Pipe Support Systems

Rilco Manufacturing Company has been among the leaders in the development of a wide variety of pipe supports and components since 1972. For over 50 years, our engineers have traveled all over the world helping clients evaluate pipe support systems. These opportunities allow us to design custom systems that are guaranteed to perform under the most extreme field conditions. They have also been instrumental in placing Rilco Manufacturing as a globally recognized, first-in-class provider of premier pipe support products and components.

The leadership at Rilco Manufacturing has enabled growth through additions, expansions, and continuous diversification of product lines. Some of the Quality Assured state-of-the-art products offered by Rilco include:

  • Assorted hardware
  • Constant springs
  • Fasteners
  • Guides
  • Pipe anchors
  • Pipe clamps
  • Pipe saddles
  • Pipe shoes
  • Pre-Insulated pipe supports
  • Special fabrications
  • Structure engineering services
  • Variable springs

Our Goals & Missions

As a company, we strive to exceed our clients’ expectations and to maintain as one of the leaders of pipe support designer and manufacturer in the energy industry. To achieve that, we constantly encourage our employees to innovate, train our employees to manufacture quality products and remind our employees to always provide high level of customer service.

Letter From The President

At Rilco Manufacturing we always strive to maintain a focus of customer-service within ourselves and inspire this within our employees. We always strive to exceed clients’ expectations by providing the most reliable information available, upholding our promise of the highest quality products, and consistently meeting our delivery deadlines. One of our goals, since day one, is to remain at the forefront of technology within our industry. To achieve that, we invest a considerable amount of capital into various research and development experiments each year to ensure our pipe support system designs, materials, and components are tried-and-true meeting all safety and performance standards.

Quality, safety, reliability, and a high level of customer service are always in the minds of our employees. Regardless of the size of the projects and who the clients are, we always aim to perform at our highest level to exceed our clients’ expectations. 

The near future will be an exciting time for Rilco Manufacturing as we are evolving and growing into a lean operating company in a much larger manufacturing facility than the old production space that we moved out of a few years ago. We’re expanding our product lines and increasing our capabilities; and we stand ready to handle a wide range of pipe support applications on large or small projects. 

I thank you for your interest in our company’s products and I truly look forward to our continued partnership and exploring relationships with new organizations that will potentially be added to our worldwide client base.

Sincerely,

Kenneth L. Zagorski

President & CEO