After an exhaustive search, Lou-Rich and its parent company Innovance, is pleased to announce that Lee Gulbrandson has been named General Manager of Lou-Rich effective today. Lee has been an important contributor to Lou-Rich’s success for many years. He began his career here working in production in April of 2002. He went on to Minnesota
Like virtually every other manufacturing business in our country, the rules for doing business continue to change and so we adapt and change right along with them. The one thing that never wavers is our commitment to the safety and well-being of our employee-owners. For that reason, we have greatly restricted visitors in our facilities,
Let's Talk Lou-Rich: Powder Coating In our Let's Talk Lou-Rich video series, John explains what powder coating painting is and why we use it.
Employee Spotlight Deb has been a member of Lou-Rich team for 30 years and enjoys the everyday challenge of being Lou-Rich’s Customer Manager. “Some days can be very challenging, and some days are just a nice flow of events,” she says. But the number one thing she enjoys most is the people
Then vs. Now - that is a WOW! They say a picture says 1,000 words, so does that mean two photos say 2,000 words? Lou-Rich has occupied its main facility on Front Street in Albert Lea since 1989, but the building itself has been there long before that. The older photo was
Doosan Machining Centers Doing Double Duty What do you do with a 20-year-old CNC machine that has been modified and has more than 40,000 cut hours on it? Send it into retirement and replace it with something new of course. Lou-Rich has a significant budget each year for equipment upgrades, replacements and
August 2020 Business Update It appears the saying “the only constant thing in life is change”, it truer today than ever. The summer of 2020 has been a bit of a roller coaster in many ways for Lou-Rich. Our employee-owners have a done a great job of responding to the rapidly changing
We're #19 on The Fabricator's 2020 FAB 40 list! The FABRICATOR takes the information and identifies the 40 most successful metal fabricating operations on the basis of 2019 reported revenue. #19) Lou-Rich: 2019 Revenue: $60 million Headquarters: Albert Lea, MN Company Locations: 3 Employees: 300 Services: Sheet Metal Fabrication, Structural Steel Fabrication,
All Fired Up Lou-Rich has been a part of the Albert Lea, MN business community for nearly 50 years, and when approached recently about making the signage that will hang outside the new Fire Rescue station in town, we jumped at the chance to be involved. Our team was very proud and
Employee Spotlight Doug has been a member of the Lou-Rich team for 31 years. He feels that working for an employee owned company means your commitment, contributions, ideas and longevity to the company can be rewarded. He enjoys working with fellow employee owners that have a common goal of making this a
