Eastern Indiana company provides US Mint furnace

By LOUISE RONALD Palladium-Item

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. (AP) - Got a quarter?

Check your pocket, wallet, coin purse or that jar by the door where you put your loose change.

If you have a state commemorative quarter marked with a "D," that coin passed through a furnace created in Cambridge City, the Palladium-Item reported (http://pinews.co/1sqme8W).

Rogers Engineering & Manufacturing at 112 S. Center St. builds industrial furnaces for basically any product that requires heating during the manufacturing process - from glassware to auto radiators to garden tools.

And coins.

Coins need to be annealed - heated and cooled to prevent brittleness.

Rogers' furnaces are annealing coins at the U.S. Mint in Denver, where the quarters are made, and also at the San Francisco mint, which produces clad and silver proof coin sets.

The U.S. Mint just awarded Rogers a contract to design, manufacture and install a second annealing furnace at its San Francisco facility.

"To get this thing designed and built, it takes about 30 weeks," said Bill Rogers, company founder and president.

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Eastern Indiana company provides US Mint furnace