Impeccable service, high quality standards, continued growth & prosperity
ABOUT IAP, INC.
Providing quality fan equipment with dependable
service
Industrial Air Products, Inc. (IAP) was founded on the
idea of designing and manufacturing blowers and fans
according to customer’s unique requirements.
Focusing on a customer-driven approach is a novel
way to do business in the industrial arena.
Since 1974, IAP has supplied markets with quality
industrial air moving equipment. From design to
fabrication and delivery with ongoing service, IAP is a
complete resource for fans, blowers, and dampers.
IAP has grown and changed over the years as our
customers' needs have changed. One thing that has
remained constant is that IAP builds the highest quality
industrial fan equipment on the market.
IAP maintains a competitive edge with prompt order
fulfillment, technologically superior engineering,
excellent customer relations, custom design
capabilities, and quick turnaround time on rush orders.
Innovative fan sizing and pricing software assist IAP's
sales group's efficiency and thoroughness.
IAP has earned an international reputation for trouble-
free performance and consistent quality of its custom
and standard industrial fans and blowers.
IAP’s team of engineers and master craftsmen ensures
the equipment meets your every expectation, and a
network of more than 50 sales offices in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico make it possible to assist
our customers locally. IAP has experienced sales
engineers throughout the world.
We're committed to providing impeccable service.
Friendly, knowledgeable, and ready to go the extra
mile, our staff members understand the customer
always comes first.
We're dedicated to maintaining high quality standards.
Personal responsibility, modern facilities, utilization of
current technologies, and rigorous checking assure
high-quality products with lasting value.
We're focused on continued growth and prosperity.
By building the very best products, our customers,
staff, and community all prosper. It is a vision that
extends beyond dollars to a way of working and living
that brings pride to us all.
ENGINEERING
IAP engineering solves customer problems by
designing fans and blowers that provide required
performance and longevity. Our engineering team is
readily able and willing to work with customers
regarding their applications.
AMCA Registered Air Performance Test Laboratory
The IAP laboratory is utilized for product
development, AMCA check tests and customer
witness tests.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
IAP uses stress analysis software to determine
maximum allowable stress for new products and
extreme applications.
Computer-aided Design
IAP utilizes CADKEY and AutoCAD design
software to generate electronic scale drawings.
MANUFACTURING
IAP’s 65,000 square foot facility builds each fan to our
rigid standards and your exact specifications. IAP’s
Phillips, WI facility employs approximately 60 factory
and 15 office personnel. Our entire company is
housed in one facility with the exception of our sales
office in St. Paul, MN. Having our manufacturing and
engineering personnel in one building assures that our
product is built with the highest quality possible.
OUR HISTORY
IAP Inc. is founded by Bob Theis. Bob was a former fan
manufacturer's representative and saw a requirement for
custom, heavy duty industrial fans that were not being
offered by his principal. Having a background in fan
design prior to becoming a manufacturer's rep, Bob was
able to parlay his talents and experiences and formed
Industrial Air Products (IAP), an industrial manufacturer of
heavy duty customized fans.
Throughout 1974 and 1975, Bob served as Industrial Air
Products’ sole employee. He engineered, marketed, and
sold all of IAP's blowers. Construction of the fans was
contracted out to fabrication shops.
IAP contracts construction for a 60' x 40' manufacturing
facility on a former potato farm in Phillips, Wisconsin.
By this time, IAP has seven employees. IAP secures a
contract for a representative office in Michigan. This
representative office is IAP's first manufacturer's
representative.
IAP continues to add representative offices and establishes
a national presence 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 a regional job shop to a
national supplier of industrial fan equipment. IAP is
unanimously approved for AMCA membership.
IAP conducts its first national sales meeting in Wausau, WI.
IAP begins to utilize computerized CAD as its primary
design tool. IAP expands its Phillips, WI facility for a 3rd
time to over 40,000 square feet of capacity.
IAP receives AMCA registration of its fan performance test
chamber. IAP hosts its second national sales meeting later
that same year in Wausau, WI.
IAP engineering becomes one of the first fan
manufacturing engineering departments to utilize Finite
Element Analysis software. The software has since been
updated and remains a current tool for the design and
development of blower impellers.
IAP receives AMCA license for the backwardly-inclined fan
line.
IAP releases one of the first fan selection software
programs to the market. IAP Hosts its third national sales
meeting on the shores of Lake Superior in beautiful
Ashland, WI.
IAP expands marketing and is heavily present at industry
trade shows and in print.
IAP hosts its fourth national sales meeting, once again in
Ashland, WI. IAP releases a second major revision to its
fan selection software program, FanPro, which is now fully
Windows-driven.
IAP adds sales offices in St. Paul, MN.
IAP Hosts its fifth national sales meeting, in Cable, WI at
the world famous Telemark Lodge. IAP releases its fan
drawing software, Fan Wizard, and fan pricing software,
Fan Value.
IAP is awarded a major contract for tunnel ventilation, one
of the largest projects of its kind to date.
IAP is awarded a major contract for wastewater treatment
odor control equipment in Los Angeles County. Besides
two 1250 hp fans, the project scope includes a number of
other fans, motors, VFDs, silencers, oil circulations
systems, and numerous other ancillary equipment.
IAP expands its Phillips, WI facility to 62,000 square feet
capacity. IAP hosts its sixth national sales meeting,
returning to Wausau, WI for the meeting. Major
improvements to FanPro (selection software) are released
and include the ability to select multiple fans and save
them to a project schedule.
While continuing to build its North American sales force,
IAP secures more and more sales beyond North America
with significant exports to Europe, Australia, Africa, and
the Middle East.
The United States lost one-third of all manufacturing jobs
in the first 10 years of the 2000s and manufacturing sees
a significant downturn in available work in the last two
years of the decade. IAP is not impervious; however,
continues to provide quality equipment and service,
sustains through the great recession, and is back to
previous employment levels by the end of 2011.
The number of IAP full time employees is at an all-time
high and sales are at record levels.
IAP expands its Phillips, WI factory to 65,000 square feet,
expanding inventory by 200% as well as adding a
sheltered loading dock and cold storage area.
Founder Bob Theis passes away. IAP continues to grow,
securing major contracts in the steel and dairy industries
this same year. They are both the type of fan projects that
require adaptive custom engineering alterations to
standard fans; exactly the type of work that Bob founded
IAP on and would proudly tout.
IAP adds a second high definition 30' plasma burn table.
This addition improves overall manufacturing efficiency
while maintaining the high quality standards for which IAP
is known.
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