Leidel Lead Staff 

 

Roger Leidel

“Pay Attention to Details”

Whether the details are precise measurements and quality control or using the highest quality materials, the strict adherence to Leidel’s standards of workmanship and engineering are why the company has achieved its current level of success with hundreds of satisfied customers throughout the United States and the world.

Watching the mold move from drawing to reality, ensuring each piece is skillfully crafted and fit into place, on time and on budget, has been one of Roger’s goals and greatest satisfaction.

Roger joined Leidel Corporation in 1963 learning hands-on tooling and machining skills. He quickly found that he had a natural aptitude for precision machining and he put all his efforts into honing these skills. This aptitude and experience prompted him to take the position as machinery repairman in the US Navy from 1964-66. After mustering out, he returned to the company in 1966.

In 1974 he was promoted to shop foreman, a position he held for 17 years. He also became heavily involved in operations in 1987, assisting Warren and his father running the business.

Warren Leidel

“Keep it Simple with an Eye on Quality”

The plastic injection molds that Liedel designs and manufactures are on the whole complex pieces of engineering when viewed as a finished product. But broken down into its constituent parts, each mold element is an art of simplicity. Part of keeping each mold simple is designing them to use interchangeable, off-the-shelf parts that are easily found. When a mold does need repair, after the expected thousands of cycles, repairs can be made quickly, getting production back up and running.

Even though it’s a family run business, William Leidel Jr. expected his sons to earn their way into the company. Warren always had an eye for art and design. In 1961 he joined the company as a draftsman right out of high school. From 1961-65 he attended college and also spent time as a journeyman earning his title as machinist.

When the vacancy for engineer opened in 1966, he jumped at the opportunity. This also afforded him the opportunity to join the Board of Directors in 1970.

Hands on experience in engineering allowed Warren to gain an invaluable education and insight. When his brother William left the company in 1987, he took another challenge by moving from the engineering room over to administration, assisting his father in sales and operations.

In 1990 he took over as acting CEO when his father died.

Today, Warren continues with the company as consultant, advisor and chairman of the board. 


Paul Marotta

“Engineering is key – conceptually sound, carefully managed and within budget”

Paul came to Leidel in 1991 bringing many years of hands-on experience in every aspect of the injection mold creation process. While with Leidel he has achieved success, working his way to head engineer, and after a short stint away from the company, he returned as Vice President of Operations in 2003.

In 2008 he became President and is responsible for all day to day operations for Engineering, Tooling, and Molding.

He began his career in 1979. Right out of high school he was hired by Grumman Aerospace as a machinist. He quickly showed great mechanical aptitude and was shifted over to the injection mold shop. Both excited and interested in the process he began absorbing all the information available on the injection mold process, attending Mechanical Engineering classes at Farmingdale University and has taking many seminars over the years in the Injection molding process, Tooling design, Hot Runner system design, Drafting, CAD/CAM/CNC programming, Business, and Project management.

During his time away from Leidel from 1999 to 2003, he managed tooling offshore in China and Taiwan for a major corporation gaining valuable experience in building quality, reliable Molds with short lead times at affordable prices.

Paul is noted for his creativity in Mold design and project management skills. 

Abe Weisfelner

“We sweat the details so our clients don’t have to”

Abe joined Leidel in 1990 as lead sales officer and estimator, and brought with him a wealth of engineering knowledge and experience from a hands-on and operations perspective. 

Because he has extensive experience as an engineer, he speaks the language and is able to interpret each client’s needs accurately and bridge the gap between the customer and the production floor.

Abe’s education includes an Associates in Engineering from NYC Community College, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Prior to joining Leidel’s team he was a tool designer, an injection mold designer and managed a short-run molding operation at Eastman Kodak from 1980-87. In 1987 he was the chief engineer and overseer of the Quality Control Department at Lumalite Plastics in Pawling New York. From 1989-90 he was chief engineer at Plast-o-matic.

Abe continues as the lead sales officer working with customers to find the right molds and services Leidel has to offer them.