About
Our History, 40 Years Strong!
In 1975, there was a need to cook a whole hog for our town’s fundraiser to save a local landmark, Turner Hall. The unit we used didn’t work very well, so we designed and built our own.
Our Beginning
From there three friends and neighbors started building the grills (Today’s Model 7240G and 7240C) in a building in Holstein, Iowa. The first grill was sold in 1976.
In 1978, a building was put up on our family farm, where the company operates from today.
In the ’70s and ’80s, we were active with the Iowa Pork Producers and the Iowa Cattleman’s groups to promote the products we were producing. Our company is strongly based in the Agriculture Industry.
Our company grew as we promoted our products at fairs, international and national conventions and shows.
The product line grew as the needs of our customers grew. Products like our chicken and rib cookers, deep fat fryers and the corn roasters were all designed with our customers needs in mind. But out of the needs of our customers, both locally and nationally, we manufacture all kinds of animal feeding and handling equipment, wood stoves, stock trailers, fifth wheel trailers, concession trailers, dunk stands, HiLo trailers, motorcycle-snowmobile trailers, and even produced a barbeque sauce for awhile.
Today we take pride in our stainless steel products that have been NSF approved.
Our products are built to last and to produce the highest quality in the food industry. We now can design and cut all of our parts and parts for other manufacturers with our laser.
We have equipment in all fifty states and many countries such as: Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Russia and Saudi Arabia, to just name a few.
“If you have a special need or idea we can customize almost anything.”
Company Mission Statement
Holstein Fabrication’s mission is to continue to concentrate on metal applications that will help other manufacturers, contractors, food production, agriculture, and for personal uses. We want to be the company that strives to meet the needs of our customers like we have in the past 42 years.