Manufacturing
Rolette County Industries
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Manufacturing
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Rolette County boasts a diversity of manufacturing plants which provide employment for the growing population. Among these are:
MICROLAP TECHNOLOGIES: Located within the boundaries of Rolla, this plant employs approximately 50 people. Microlap manufactures high precision ruby, sapphire and ceramic components for medical, automotive, electronic, motion control, fiberoptics, communications and aerospace applications. This is the only facility of its kind in North America!!!
ARROW TECH: Arrow-Tech, Inc. located in Rolla, ND, manufactures the only direct reading plastic dosimeters in the world. The direct reading dosimeter is a rugged instrument which measures accumulated doses of gamma and x-ray radiation. Applications include personal and environmental monitoring. The low energy feature has hospital applications including flouroscopy, portable radiography and angiography. This pocket size instrument is light weight, and has a sturdy clip to attach to individual’s pocket. Arrow-Tech recently purchased Dosimeter Corportation of America (DCA). They are now manufactures of electronic radation detection equipment. See their website at www.dosimeter.com for more information.
Contact (701) 477-6461
Fax (701) 477-6464
General public tours are not encouraged.
TURTLE MTN CORPORATION: This manufacturing facility is located in Dunseith, ND. Currently 230 people are employed at this plant. TMC is a contract manufacturer of electronic cards and assemblies.
TURTLE MTN MANUFACTURING: The Turtle Mtn Manufacturing Company is a manufacturing entity located within the exterior boundaries of the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation situated in Rolette County, ND. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians wholly owns this company. To date the majority of TMMC’s business has been conducted with the United States Department of Defense. TMMC has an average employment of 100 to 160 employees with a capacity of up to 300. The manufacturing labor includes metal fabrication, precision bearings, energy, agricultural and textile industries.
UNIBAND: This corporation provides numerous data entry and technical services to various government agencies and private corporations. Uniband LAN Telecommunications support and microcomputer, Internet/Intranet and Software Support services are based Albuquerque, New Mexico and Washington, D.C. In addition, they officer Document Imaging, Telemarketing and Data Entry at the Belcourt site and various locations around the state and across the country, employing approximately 1000 persons nationwide.
Contacts (701) 477-6445
MIDWEST INDUSTRIES: This is a new light manufacturing business in Rolette city, will be making plastic products, molding, electronics, etc. There will be more on this plant in the near future.
Contacts (701) 246-3737
Fax (701) 246-3751
CREATIONS: A privately owned garment making business, located in the city of Rolette. They manufacture sports wear, outer wear of all kinds, insulated sweat suits, v-neck pullovers, etc. Winter coats of all kinds, stadium coats, ski jackets, outback or drover coats, barn coats, wool print coats. They also have an embroidery machine and they do in house embroidery such as signatures, logos, names, etc.
Contacts (701) 246-3373
Fax (701) 246-3606
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Agriculture plays a very important role in Rolette County’s economy. Most farm operations are diversified with crops and livestock. Rolette County has 356,814 acres of cropland, 85,000 acres of native pasture, 9,000 acres of tame pasture, and 27,000 acres of hayland.
Crops
The major crops in Rolette County are spring wheat, durum, barley and canola. Spring wheat and durum used to make up a majority of the planted acres, but due to weather related disease problems, canola production is rapidly on the increase. Some of the lesser grown crops in Rolette County are oats, sunflowers, alfalfa, soybeans, corn, rye, and winter wheat.
Livestock
Beef producers in Rolette County are mainly commercial cow/calf operations. Most of the calves are weaned in the fall and then backgrounded until after the first of the year. There is a large abundance of feed barley in the county that is used to grow these calves. There are also several seed stock producers that produce outstanding Black Angus, Red Angus, Gelbvieh, Charolais, and Simmental bulls and heifers.
Rolete County has several PMU ranches with some of these ranches being second or third generation horse breeders. PMU (pregnant mare urine) is the key source of hormones used to prevent and treat osteoporosis and to help relieve the short-term symptoms of menopause. PMU ranches use both saddle and draft horses. The Quarter Horse being the most common saddle horse and the Percheron and Belgian the most common draft horse. The foals are either sold at public auction or private treaty.