OUR STORY

Commitment to excellence. Discipline. For American fighter pilots those are not slogans, they are a code, and it is that culture of excellence that makes them the best in the world at protecting the rest of us. One seasoned fighter pilot took the same ethos he learned flying fighters and applied it to building security products for American families.

That is the short version. The longer one starts with a job shop in a small Idaho town, and with a father who could not find a safe he trusted. Neither one was a plan to build gun safes.

Rhino Metals, Inc. is a U.S. veteran-owned manufacturing company, founded in 1995 as a small town metal fabrication job shop. Our founder, Don Suggs, was a fighter pilot who also happened to love working with his hands. He took the discipline and the commitment to excellence the U.S. Air Force had drilled into him and used it to build a business.

What Rhino Metals started as was a metal fabrication shop, and in a real sense that is still what we are. A company that got very good at steel before it ever got into security. Our headquarters and U.S. manufacturing plant sit in Caldwell, Idaho, about 35 miles outside Boise, and that is where our American-built safes are made today.

In 1999, Don's father asked him to make a quality gun safe. The reason was ordinary and it is the same reason most people buy one. He wanted his firearms out of reach of his grandchildren, and he could not find anything in the local stores that was both affordable and genuinely secure. He could get one or the other. Not both.

So Don started researching what was actually on the market, found them lacking, and designed something tougher. He built a small production run to see whether anyone else wanted the same thing. They did.

The company is named after an airplane. Don flew the McDonnell Douglas F-4 operationally, and the people who flew her called her the Rhino, because of the long nose and because she was built like one. Tough, heavy, and very hard to stop.

It is a fitting name for a company that makes steel boxes designed to absorb punishment. We did not pick it off a list. It came from the cockpit.

Rhino Metals builds gun safes, home safes, vault doors, secure furniture and tool chests, sold through RhinoSafe.com and a network of authorized dealers. Every safe carries our patented SafeX® Security System, the anti-pry locking design that interlocks the door to the body of the safe.

Rhino Metals employs a large percentage of veterans, and the standard Don brought out of the Air Force is still the one we hold the shop to. Discipline, and a relentless commitment to excellence. Those are the words on the wall, and they are the reason a safe leaves Caldwell only when it is right.

Over the years the company has set new industry standards for quality, value and customer service, and Rhino is now one of the leading U.S. gun safe companies. That growth came from the same place the first safe did. Somebody wanted to protect what mattered to them, and could not find anything good enough.

We are still building for that person.

Rhino Metals, Inc. · 607 Garber Street, Caldwell, Idaho 83605 · 208-454-5545. Rhino™, Rhino Metals™, SafeX®, Kodiak®, Longhorn® and Ironworks® are trademarks of Rhino Metals, Inc.