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Company History and
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Industrial Kinetics, founded in 1969, is an organization with material handling systems design and manufacturing capabilities, focused on providing not merely conveyor and handling hardware, but solutions to customers material handling problems. We began operations from a 3,500 Ft² facility, purchasing approximately 70% of our products and manufacturing the remainder.
In 1974, Industrial Kinetics purchased and relocated to a 14,000 Ft² facility. Improved facilities and an increased staff allows reduced buyouts and increased manufacturing. From 1976 through 1978 Industrial Kinetics was the largest Mathews conveyor distributor in the United States.
In 1978 we built the first phase of our current facility and moved into a 40,000 Ft² building. The move allowed us to secure larger projects and manufacture more of the custom design equipment involved in these larger projects.
Simultaneous to our distributorship with Mathews from 1978 through 1980, we were also a major distributor for Litton. Then as a result of our continued growth and the size of the projects that we were obtaining, our distributor relationships with other manufacturers were being jeopardized by their direct sales efforts.
In 1980, Industrial Kinetics acquired the Olson Conveyor Company from ACCO. The acquisition brought us not only a very well established and complete line of package handling equipment, but also a sophisticated, experienced engineering group and trained fabricators.
To support our projected growth, we have recently completed an expansion to bring our facility up to 90,000 Ft². In today's dollars and at our current product mix, this will allow our growth to increase to approximately $40 MM in sales.
Typically our sales are split about 50/50 between consumer direct sales and the consultant, integrator resale group.
Strengths - Benefits
We are a dynamic, growing company.
Industrial Kinetics builds a full line of package and unit handling conveyors and a wide variety of custom and semi-standard equipment, including transfers, transfer cars, pallet dispensers and special devices.
Our engineering and controls group is as large and as experienced as the staffs of our significantly larger competitors. Additionally, we are continually educating and training our personnel.
We are a flexible, responsive company that rapidly adjusts to changing requirements. We endeavor to provide cost effective solutions that are as unique as the customers we serve.
Our investment in state of the art manufacturing machinery allows us to build high quality equipment at competitive prices.
Industrial Kinetics, with over 30 years of material handling systems experience, approaches projects from a systems perspective.
Systems Experience
Industrial Kinetics is well known and respected in the industry, having installed systems at companies such as:
| Alumax Extrusions Australia PTY, LTD. | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Alumax Extrusions, Inc. | Catawba, North Carolina |
| Briggs & Stratton Corporation | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Caterpillar Inc. | Peoria, Illinois Lafayette, Indiana Joliet, Illinois East Peoria, Illinois Morton, Illinois Mapleton, Illinois Aurora, Illinois |
| Department of Defense, Norfolk Navy Base | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Electromotive (Div. of General Motors) | McCook, Illinois |
| Excel Beef | Plainview, Texas Friona, Texas Fort Morgan, Colorado Dodge City, Kansas |
| Ford Motor Company | Chicago, Illinois Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Harley Davidson | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Huffy Sports | Waukesha, Wisconsin |
| I.B.P. Beef | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Illinois State Tollway | Downers Grove, Illinois |
| International Harvester/Navistar | West Chicago, Illinois Baltimore, Maryland Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Johnson Controls, Inc. | Hudson, Wisconsin Edison, New Jersey Johns Creek, Georgia |
| Kobe Copper Product, Inc. | Pine Hall, North Carolina |
| Landis Plastics, Inc. | Chicago Ridge, Illinois |
| Monfort, Inc. | Worthington, Minnesota Cactus, Texas |
| Northern Precision Castings | Lake Geneva, Wisconsin |
| Odman Corporation | Aurora, Illinois |
| OMC Corporation | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Schering Plough Healthcare Products (Scholl, Inc.) | Chicago, Illinois Cleveland, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee |
| Sears, Roebuck and Company | Alsip, Illinois |
| Sony | Nuevo Laredo, Mexico |
| Thornapple Valley | Detroit, Michigan |
| Trek Bicycle | Watertown, Wisconsin |
| Warner-Lambert | Elk Grove Village, Illinois |
| West Bend Corporation | West Bend, Wisconsin |
| Zenith Electronics | Chicago,
Illinois Melrose Park, Illinois |
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