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S. S. “Stu” Battles was chief engineer of Ingersoll Steel Company in Chicago. He and Clarence Bullock, a salesman who called on Ingersoll, formed Midwest Enameling & Stamping Company to manufacture refrigerators. In 1934, they purchased an empty plant in Morrison, IL from Illinois Refrigeration Company, which had built wooden ice boxes. [1]
In 2010, the IMA advocated tax exemptions for manufacturers. [25] IMA President Mark Denzler is an employer representative of Illinois' Workers Compensation Advisory Board [26] and has hosted a weekly poker game in his office frequented by state legislators. [27] [28] The Illinois Manufacturers' Association is a 501(c)(6) non-profit ...
The association finally changed to its current moniker, Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International, in August 1985. Membership has grown to more than 2,500 individual and company members in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The association moved its headquarters from Rockford to Elgin, Illinois, in December 2016. [5]
Hanna City native Ashley Wurzer, a nurse anesthetist, has opened a new event venue called Haven on the Farm on pasture and farm land near Illinois Route 150 and Trigger Road in North Peoria.
The Central Manufacturing District–Pershing Road Development Historic District is an industrial historic district on Pershing Road in the New City community area of Chicago, Illinois. An expansion of the original Central Manufacturing District, the district includes seventeen industrial buildings constructed between 1917 and 1948. The Central ...
When the outside air's dry- and wet-bulb temperatures are low enough, a water-side economizer can use water cooled by a wet cooling tower or a dry cooler (also called a fluid cooler) to cool buildings without operating a chiller. They are historically known as the strainer cycle, but the water-side economizer is not a true thermodynamic cycle.
Elkay Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of stainless steel sinks, faucets, [1] drinking fountains, bottle fillers and branded commercial interiors. [2] The company was founded in 1920 by Leopold Katz, his son Louis, and Ellef Robarth, a tinsmith who came up with an idea to hand fabricate German silver sinks and deliver them in Chicago. [3]
A display of Yeti products at Academy Sports + Outdoors in Indianapolis, Indiana.. YETI Holdings, Inc. is an American brand of outdoor recreation products, headquartered in Austin, Texas, [2] specializing in outdoor products such as ice chests, vacuum-insulated stainless-steel drinkware, soft coolers, dry bags, and related accessories. [2]