Robinson Industries

11/01/2025

November - the month of Thanksgiving.

MMA Excellence Awards 2025
Manufacturing Community Impact Award Finalist
Robinson Industries, Inc.

“We are grateful to be considered for the Manufacturing Community Impact Award and especially thankful for the dedication of our employees who make our work possible. While recognition is appreciated, our giving has always been rooted in the values our founders instilled — supporting local churches and organizations — as the Lord has allowed,” said Inez Kaleto, CEO of Robinson Industries, Inc.

10/24/2025

Robinson Industries is honored to be one of three finalists for the Michigan Manufacturers Association Excellence Awards for Community Impact. Our CEO Inez Kaleto gave an inspiring speech Wednesday at the press conference held at MMA's Headquarters in Lansing, Michigan.

08/27/2024

Jerry Kaleto, Inez Kaleto's husband, a huge part of Robinson Industries since the early 1950s, beloved to our entire family, passed away earlier this week. He will be remembered for his kindness, his dedication to family and community and his church. He was a devout Christian. He often led the music portion of services and had one of the most beautiful singing voices you will ever hear. He taught all of us how to be better people. For many of you who worked with him, you probably remember his easy smile, his wealth of knowledge about the business and his excellent customer service. He was the Sales Manager at Robinson Industries for most of his adult life. People loved working with him and he loved his job. He taught the younger people in his family and at work how to never give up until things were right, how to stay calm and focused on results. We will all miss him so much. He's one of those people who you can honestly say, everyone who knew him liked him. Rest In Peace Uncle Jerry.

Robinson Industries will be closed for the day shift on Thursday of this week. This will be paid time off so that we can all attend the funeral if we choose. If you have questions about this please contact your supervisor or Joel Evans HR.

Thank you all for your kindness and support.

03/30/2024

Two years ago today, things were going well at Robinson Industries. We were coming out of the Covid era, there were some supply chain issues but overall business was on the upswing and life was good.

Then the unimaginable happened.

As most of you know, a fire devastated our factory and offices in the early morning hours of March 31, 2022.

Things seemed very bleak at the time but our leadership was strong and immediately plans were being made for how to continue to get parts to our suppliers, how to help employees who were suddenly out of work and how to start the incredibly difficult work of rebuilding.

We have said this so many times that it probably sounds redundant but it truly was awe inspiring to see how our employees, our managers, our suppliers and competitors and our community came together to make this happen.

Sometimes your greatest blessings in life come out of adversity.
We have learned so much about what it means to support each other, what community means and how deep down good people really are. We are stronger as a company and as people because of this experience.

It has been two long but exciting years and we are at the point where the new building is done, machines are in place and some will start running this week. We are almost there and we're looking forward to having a ribbon cutting celebration in the Spring. We hope to see many of you at this event.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone involved for standing with us and giving this team effort more than anyone could expect. Our managers and staff, Steelworkers Local 15100, and everyone involved should take pride in what has been accomplished! If we had a crystal ball we would have been astonished at how well the rebuild has gone thanks to all of you.

If you have any pictures of the rebuild in progress or the fire or any other pictures you think would be interesting to others please post those in the comments.

03/06/2024

Thank you so much Midland Business Alliance for this post and for honoring us with this award. If any business owners in the area are wondering about the benefits of joining this organization, you can't go wrong. They provide a ton of resources. They are a good group of people to know and to work with. Their events are enjoyable as well as informative. We appreciate everything you do for Midland County.

03/06/2024

03/01/2024

We appreciate these two for their combined 74 years of service. You will be missed. Thanks to Don Haggart for 38 years and Steve Hair for 36 years of hard work and dedication. That is truly something to be proud of. Enjoy your retirement and please stay in touch with your friends here at Robinson Industries.

02/17/2024

Robinson Industries is a member of the Midland Business Alliance. Thursday night at their annual membership event at the Dow Diamond, we received an award as the Large Business of the Year for Midland County. This is awarded to a company that is involved in their community in a positive way and contributes to the overall growth and well being of Midland County. We were thrilled and humbled to receive this award and so thankful for the employees and management at Robinson Industries for making this possible. The past couple of years have seen challenges none of us could have imagined. Because of the Robinson team we are coming out of this stronger and better than ever. Thank you everyone. This award is something to be proud of and belongs to everyone on this team. . We should be getting a video of the award ceremony soon and we will share it here. Image Works in Midland did such a good job of putting our video together.

12/22/2023

Our company Christmas celebration was extra special this year because were able to be in our brand new building for the party on all three shifts at the Curtis Road plant. This year was a long awaited and very welcome pause to celebrate the holiday and all of the hard work that got us to this point. Special thanks to the Robinson Industries employees, FED--amazing builders, the local fire departments and our whole community for giving 100% every day for the last 21 months. You are all amazing and so appreciated. The Robinson family wishes you a Christmas full of love and peace, rest and laughter.

04/24/2023

Thanks to everyone who noticed and messaged us that we have some questionable activity on this site. No one is selling T-shirts by the way so don't respond to that message. We have blocked the spammers and we should be fine now.