Industrial Maintenance Welding

IMW is a company comprised of 130 employees dedicated to providing quality service to the metal working industry. Our in-house trucking provides round the clock service. Lifting capabilities of 80 tons enable IMW to service the large work as well as the smaller requirements. IMW's philosophy of continuously upgrading its machine tools and modernizing its facilities to better serve our customers allows the company to grow with the metal working industry. The key to our success is our ability to fully satisfy our customers with our expertise in the industry as well as offering top notch equipment, quality and people.

In addition to being customer driven, IMW offers metallurgical capabilities along with experienced engineering personnel to determine correct repair procedures and recommended upgrades, if required, to improve equipment performance. IMW will supply the customer with a detailed inspection report and repair procedure for all work. Prior to any repairs, the recommended procedures are reviewed with the customer to ensure complete customer satisfaction.

Mission Statement

Industrial Maintenance Welding & Machining Co., Inc. is committed to continual improvements of equipment and methods to satisfy the stipulated demands of our customers. Our mission is to go beyond customer requests and expectations in order to give that customer what he actually needs.

Our customer is the focus of everything we do. Manufacturing, performance, technological and human resources must all drive to satisfy both external and internal requirements. We will differentiate ourselves from our competition and we will pursue and establish partnerships with our customers in the pursuit of mutual prosperity.

Maintaining our leadership position is totally dependent on our ability to achieve the highest quality and lowest cost services in the market we serve. Continuous improvement in management, equipment and work force will achieve the quality and cost objectives which will insure that IMW is the very best at what we do.

IMW will continue to focus on the long-term goals of our customers and the availability of technological advancements.

IMW Quality Policy

We will Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control our processes to efficiently deliver products, services and solutions that exceed Customer Expectations.

IMW History

Industrial Maintenance Welding & Machining Co. started serving the Steel Mill industry in 1974 in Kingsbury, IN. Since that time, IMW has grown into (4) locations with over 350, 000 sqft of manufacturing space under roof. The other locations are in Gary, IN and two other facilities in Chicago.

The Chicago plant was established four years later (1978) with one small lathe and a welding machine. This facility is now an 85, 000 square foot facility with large manual machine capabilities and lifting capacity up to 160, 000 pounds. It grew from there until, in 1989, IMW purchased the 125, 000 square foot facility at 4806 South Halsted Street in Chicago. Now that facility houses a large CNC Shop with numerous small and medium sized CNC horizontal boring mills, three CNC G&L floor type horizontal boring mills (two 6” Spindle & one 7” Spindle machines), one large CNC Ingesoll Planer Mill, one MAG VTC 2500 (built in 2005), one large (twin carriage) CNC Heavy Duty Lathe (Installed new in 2010), three CNC lathes, two manual vertical boring mills (OM & Toshiba Shibura), one Poreba manual engine lathe, one large H. Ernault Somua manual engine lathe (128” Dia. Over carriage x 28’ center-center), large storage and assembly area.

Industrial Maintenance Welding & Machining Company continually focuses on Total Quality Management. With the proper facilities, equipment, people and quality you cannot go wrong when you choose IMW for any of your metal working needs.