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With a steel processing and manufacturing facility based in Minnesota, Louis Industries is a renowned sheet metal fabricator and distributor. Using state-of-the-art technology like lasers and turrets alongside forming equipment, the company manufactures high-quality parts for various customers. Lance Louis, Chief Executive Officer, introduces us to the business and its rich history.
“ Louis Industries was started in 1940 by my grandfather, who was a blacksmith sent to rural America during World War II to help keep farms operational by fixing equipment and building farming gear. From those origins, we have evolved considerably. My grandfather built some of the first turkey processing equipment in the 1960s, though we do not do much in that industry today. In the late 1980s, the skid loader attachment was invented on a farm just outside of Paynesville, Minnesota, and we made the first quickattach for the gentleman who invented and patented it. That development shifted us from agricultural blacksmithing into job shop manufacturing, which is where we have been for the last 40 years. The next evolution we see for ourselves is
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