About Us

Xcite Manufacturing was born in November 2018 with the purchase of Richardson Metals in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The two owners, Rick Werner and John Tassone had previously worked together for 20 years at Independence Tube Corporation, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Rick Werner worked as a CPA for fifteen years at the accounting firm of Shepard Schwartz & Harris. In 1995 he joined one of his clients, Independence Tube, as their controller. Independence Tube at that time had one manufacturing facility with 70 employees. He was named Treasurer in 2001 and Vice President in 2003. In 2004 he joined the Board of Directors and was elected President. At that time Independence Tube had grown to two manufacturing facilities with 130 employees. When the company was sold to Nucor Steel in 2016, Independence Tube had grown to four manufacturing facilities with over 1,700,000 square feet under roof with 350 employees and was the second largest producer of structural pipe and tube in North America. Rick also served terms of Vice President and then President of the Steel Tube Institute.

John Tassone started his career at Ryerson Steel in 1978 as an inside salesperson handling the fabrication of Ryerson products. John was later promoted to an Account Manager handling a territory in northeast Indiana. When Ryerson re-organized in 1994, John was promoted back to Ryerson’s Corporate office in Chicago as the Carbon and Alloy Tubing Product Manager, responsible for the sales and purchasing of the carbon and alloy tubing products carried by the eleven Ryerson plants in the Midwest USA. After a fifteen-year career at Ryerson, John joined Independence Tube as a Regional Sales Manager. The last five years at Independence

Tube, John was the General Manager of Sales & Marketing.

Rick and John stayed for a few months after the Nucor purchase. Still looking for something to do, Richardson Metals was purchased in November of 2018. In November of 2020, Excite Manufacturing expanded again with the purchase of Accudyne Corporation and Accudyne Products in Englewood, Colorado.