Experience

Robin Rhodes acquired Nitro-Freeze, LLC., a Connecticut based company. It was moved to its current location in Worcester, Massachusetts in early 2002. The previous owner, Richard Salews, established an investment casting company over 35 years ago and became involved in Cryogenic Tempering as part of the business. He remains active today with CINE as an advisor.

Cryogenic Institute of New England is a research and development center within NitroFreeze.  The purpose of the Institute is to provide data and analysis for advancing the proprietary processes and formulas used by NitroFreeze.

The Institute was formed during the technology transfer of NitroFreeze founder, Mr. Salews, to our present owner and CEO, Robin Rhodes.  The Institute has evolved to include a comprehensive, renewable, multi-year Technology Assistance Agreement with a leading firm in the Cryogenic Tempering industry. This agreement includes cryogenic support, consultative services, access to databases and applications history. The controls developed by NitrooFreeze  are modified extensions of the best commercial heat/cool controller circuitry available and accompanying computers.

Our cryogenic expertise expanded with the addition of dedicated technical staff and a formalized alliance with WPI’s Metal Process Institute. Included on our staff are Dr. Ron Lasky, a PhD Materials Scientist from Cornell, and Gerry Waldron, P.E., who has over 28 years experience in the process control for a variety of industrial applications.

WPI, formerly known as Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has enjoyed over a century of productive partnership with industry. The Metal Processing Institute (MPI) is the product of this heritage of cooperation. Formalized at WPI in 1995, the Metal Processing Institute is an industry-university alliance whose mission is to educate future leaders of the industry and to advance the knowledge base via research carried out in collaboration with MPI’s industrial partners. The three industrial consortia of MPI are:

  • The Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC)
  • The Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE)
  • The Powder Metallurgy Research Center (PMRC)

Cryogenic Institute of New England is a member of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence and works in conjunction with members of the Advanced Casting Research Center. CINE is proud to join over 100 corporate partners that represent the leading corporations of the metal processing industry focusing on near and net shape manufacturing.