About Roland "Bud" Pohlman

In Memory of Roland "Bud" Pohlman

BSME 1953, MSM
OGS Member

Bud graduated from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1953. He joined Tau Kappa Epsilon in 1948 and went through the offices to become fraternity president. After graduation, he joined a combat engineering battalion in peace-time Germany for two years. Upon his return to the U.S., he met his wife, Mary, and they shared 48 years together, producing two girls and three boys. His desire to become an engineer began while working with his father at R. L. Pohlman Co., a precision screw machine products supplier. R. L. Pohlman Co. merged with an Ohio and California company to become Valentec International with combined sales of over 100 million dollars. In 1988, Valentec was purchased by International Silver Co., a large conglomerate. In 1990, Bud retired from Insilco several years later but continued in a separate business called Component Engineering, of which he was president. Bud enjoyed working with his son, Troy (also a UMR graduate), in his company called Component Bar Products, which is the largest "Hydromat" Swiss rotary transfer machining facility in the U.S.