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DELANO, Minn.—Industrial Louvers, Inc. (ILI) announces the appointment of Julie Amundson as director of operations. She will support advancement of the company, continual improvement and day-to-day operations.   Throughout her 24-year career, Amundson has driven continuous improvement through energetic, motivational and consistent leadership. Prior to joining ILI, Amundson served as director of operations at Convers, Read more…

ILI recently celebrated a groundbreaking for our facility expansion and new sustainable, state of the art paint line! The facility will be able to capture rain water for our processes, significantly reduce energy consumption, and position us for a Net Zero future. It will also allow for a better working environment for employees that incorporates Read more…

  Growing our Handprints  and Reaching Net Positive with ILI Painted Sunshades Footprints are negative impacts, the energy, water, climate and other impacts involved in what we do. Every person, product, service and organization creates footprints.   Historically, we think of sustainability in terms of reducing our footprint. The problem is that even if we were able Read more…

The University of Iowa Facilities and Capital Management, in partnership with Heery International Inc.,  had an ambitious vision for the main interior corridor of the new $600 million University of Iowa Children’s Hospital (UICH). The hospital’s overall shape is an ellipse with the main corridor following a figure eight pattern within. It includes seven different radii and was Read more…

ILI is the first U.S.-based manufacturer to receive the Just Label from International Living Future Institute (ILFI) DELANO, Minn. — Industrial Louvers, Inc. (ILI), a manufacturer of custom architectural products, announces that it is the first U.S.-based manufacturing company to have earned a Just™ Label. Participation in the Just Program is an opportunity for organizations Read more…

BSD SpecLink-E is a master guide specification writing, management, and production system with built-in intelligence designed to help specifiers dramatically speed up editing tasks and reduce specification production time while minimizing errors and omissions.   Combined with the industry’s most comprehensive and up-to-date master database, SpecLink-E enables specifiers to accelerate their specification development with unsurpassed Read more…

Industrial Louvers, Inc. and ARCOM recently signed an agreement to promote product in MasterSpec.  MasterSpec, a product of the AIA, is one of the most trusted and comprehensive specification systems in the building industry. Specifiers can quickly access a list of building product manufacturers related to the sections specifiers are working on.   ARCOM carefully Read more…

Industrial Louvers is a proud sponsor of Orange Crush, a robotics team comprised of students and mentors from Delano High School in Delano, Minnesota, home town to Industrial Louvers and many of its employees. Each year, the team competes in FIRST Robotics Competition.  As part of the effort, volunteer engineers, high school students, and members Read more…

Recycling has been a part of ILI’s waste management program for many years.  This year though, we are stepping up our game and setting an aggressive goal of reducing our waste to landfill by an additional 50%.  In our first full month of a new waste management program, we have exceeded that goal.  We attribute Read more…

ILI Sales & Marketing Director/Sustainability Champion, Lisa Britton, has been appointed Vice Chair of the HPD Collaborative’s Technical Committee. The HPD Collaborative is a non-profit, customer-led, member organization committed to the continuous improvement of the building industry’s environmental and health performance through transparency and innovation. The HPD Collaborative created, supports and advances the HPD Open Read more…