General Info

Ray Lipper, an originator and pioneer of the aftermarket wheel industry, Specialty Equipment Market Association hall of fame member and motorsports driver and enthusiast, founded Center Line Wheel in 1970. The company has become one of the largest wheel manufacturers in the United States. Center Line has designed a rotary forging press, created as the only one of its kind in the world, to compress a solid billet of aluminum with 4,000 tons of force, at 300 revolutions per minute. Not only does this process rearrange the aluminum molecules, but it also aligns them in a circular pattern thereby adding strength. As a result, the rotary forged wheel has a much tighter grain structure and is significantly lighter weight than a cast wheel, which requires greater mass due to its inherent porosity. Center Line Wheel is located in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.