Sunrise Metal Shop in Topeka, Indiana spent 60 years building evaporators and furnace arches for the maple syrup industry. These years saw the development of the engineering and technology used in the Silver Rocket and Sonic Rocket Grill. Maple syrup requires precise temperature control, extreme efficiency, regulated even heat, and construction that holds up year after year. The very first evaporator we built in 1968 is still in use one mile from our shop.

It is this pursuit of excellence and quality that led to the creation of the Silver Rocket and Sonic Rocket. We took everything we learned from thousands of evaporator builds and poured it into the finest grill on the market. There is no other grill like a Silver Rocket or Sonic Rocket. 

Today, we continue our pursuit of perfection by producing our own, natural lump hardwood charcoal for use in our grills.