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CUSTOMER FOCUSED FROM THE BEGINNING In 1975 the idea of focusing on customers was a rather novel way to do business in the industrial arena. But Bob Theis, owner and founder of IAP, Inc., believed that designing and manufacturing blowers and fans according to the customer's unique requirements simply made sense-especially if you were a customer.
Today, our 50,000 sq. ft. facility retains its job-shop roots, and still builds each fan to our rigid standards and your specifications. A network of more than 50 sales offices in the United States, Canada, and Mexico assist with the ordering process, while a fine-tuned team of engineers and master craftsmen ensure the equipment meets your every expectation. |
The customer-driven approach worked. IAP has earned an international reputation for the trouble-free performance and consistent quality of its specialty and standard industrial fans and blowers.
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1974- IAP is founded by Robert Theis. Robert was a former Fan Manufacturer's Representative. Bob saw a requirement for custom heavy duty industrial fans that was not offered by his principal. From this insightful need for these fans, Bob formed Industrial Air Products; An industrial manufacturer of heavy duty highly customized fans. 1975- Throughout 1974 and 1975, Bob served as Industrial Air Products sole employee. He marketed, sold, and engineered all of IAP's blowers. He jobbed out the construction of the fans to fabrication shops. 1976- IAP contracts construction for a 60' x 40' manufacturing facility of a former potato farm in Phillips, Wisconsin. 1979- By this time, IAP has seven employees, two have since retired from IAP and two still remain IAP employees today. IAP secures a contract for a representative office in Michigan. This representative office is IAP's first manufacturer's representative and remains a major force in IAP sales today. 1983-IAP continues to add representative offices and becomes a nationwide competitive fan supplier with the addition of its first National Sales Manager. This was the first major change in direction for IAP. The change had a purpose of reorganizing the company from regional job shop to a national supplier of industrial fan equipment. IAP is unanimously approved for AMCA membership. 1984- IAP conducts its first national sales meeting. 1986- IAP begins to utilize computerized CAD as its primary design tool. 1988- IAP receives AMCA registration of its fan performance test chamber. 1989- IAP engineering becomes one of the first fan manufacturing engineering departments to utilize Finite Element Analysis software. The software remains a current tool for the design and development of blower impellers. 1990- IAP receives AMCA license for the backwardly inclined fan line.
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