Ethan Hamblen

Chief Executive Officer RCM Industries, Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Ethan Hamblen is Chief Executive Officer of RCM Industries, a family-owned maker of aluminum high-pressure die castings based in Franklin Park, Illinois. He previously served as the company’s Executive Vice President. As CEO he has moved RCM further into the appliance industry. In November 2025, GE Appliances named RCM among the U.S. suppliers awarded contracts for its new washer and washer/dryer plant in Louisville, Kentucky, and quoted Hamblen calling the contract an exciting next phase of the company’s growth.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of RCM Industries, a family-owned aluminum high-pressure die caster in Franklin Park, Illinois.
• Previously Executive Vice President of RCM Industries, according to Foundry Management & Technology.
• Took RCM into GE Appliances’ supply chain in November 2025. RCM is to supply die-cast components that stabilize the drums of front-load washers and combo units built at Appliance Park, Louisville.
• Named expanding RCM’s role as a supplier to the appliance industry as a strategic priority.

Professional Journey

Hamblen’s career as reported in public sources has been at RCM Industries. The foundry and die-casting trade publication Foundry Management & Technology lists him as the company’s Executive Vice President. By November 2025 he had become Chief Executive Officer. No public announcement dating that change was found.

RCM manufactures aluminum parts by high-pressure die casting, a process in which molten metal is forced into steel dies to produce precise, repeatable components at volume. It is a family-owned business. On 20 November 2025, GE Appliances, a Haier company, announced more than $150 million in new contracts with U.S. suppliers across ten states. The contracts support a new washer and combo washer/dryer plant at its Louisville headquarters. RCM was one of two Illinois companies that together received more than $20 million. Its work is to supply the aluminum castings that stabilize the drums on front-load washers and combo units, with production at Appliance Park slated to begin in early 2027.

In GE Appliances’ announcement, Hamblen described the contract as marking “an exciting next phase of RCM Industries’ growth”. He said that expanding RCM’s role as a supplier to the appliance industry had been a priority, and that the investment in U.S. manufacturing gave the company a meaningful opportunity to put that strategy into action. He also spoke of the company as a family-owned business bringing its die-casting expertise to strengthen the domestic supply chain.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party or editorial source.