K&S Millwrights, Inc.
K&S Millwrights, Inc. has been providing grain storage and material handling services and equipment in the “Six State” Midwest area of: Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska since 1994. We at K & S Millwrights, Inc. will: Provide the utmost personal and professional service in the millwright and construction process of agricultural related equipment. Provide site design, new construction, repair, and all grain handling, storage and drying equipment. Also providing equipment and services such as cranes and excavation to complete each job in a timely, efficient manner. Serve farmers, cooperatives, elevators, feedmills and others working with material or grain handling equipment in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. Be a resource for all equipment and parts to be shipped to all customers within the United States of America. Exceed our clients’ needs with product knowledge, professionalism and efficient service.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Agriculture
- Market Focus:
- Nationally (across the country)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
With knowledge from past experience and a drive to pursue the business, K & S Millwrights, Inc. was founded in May of 1994 on the farm site of Ken and Pearl Stresman in Buffalo Lake.
With a handshake from the manager of the Buffalo Lake Elevator to be our first customer and the backing from banker Keith Fischer (another Buffalo Lake native), the dream began.
The first office was the living room and kitchen table; that quickly got moved to a remodeled Quonset garage. As the company gained dealerships and the barn couldn’t hold the inventory anymore, the Scharmer Lumber Yard was purchased for more warehouse space. Over the years, we have purchased more land, tore down the farmsite and built buildings to accommodate the equipment, inventory and offices of today all at one facility.
K & S Millwrights, Inc. has been providing grain storage, drying & grain handling equipment since 1994. From sales, service and installation, we have grown to also provide new site design with CAD drawings and site excavation; working with you as your contractor on your project from the very beginning until the project is totally completed. And our services don’t stop there; not only do we provide new construction crews, we also have crews available for 24 hour breakdown emergency’s, repair work and scheduled preventative maintenance shutdowns.
Today
K & S Millwrights has eight millwright crews, certified crane and boom truck operators and cranes (26, 40 and 90 tons), excavation equipment and skilled operators – all to provide your grain handling needs with knowledge, professionalism and safety. We warehouse thousands of items from many vendors for immediate sale to keep our customers satisfied on a daily basis – having what you need, when you need it.
Over the years, we have built this business one customer at a time based on our reputation for prompt service, professionalism and product knowledge. We are grateful for each and every customer we come in contact with – not only those here in Minnesota, but also the many we have had the pleasure working with in Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
Who We Are
Family Owned
K&S Millwrights is a family owned business that started in 1994. The business is currently owned and operated by Brad and Susan Krumrey.
The Crew
Management, office personnel, salesmen, site design, excavation operators, dryer technicians, eight crews specializing in new construction, repair and maintenance.
Safety
Safety is a very important part of this job and we take it very seriously. There are many safety training’s that are done throughout the year to ensure that our team members have the training they need and refreshers on topics that come before them in their line of work.
K & S Millwrights, Inc. is a drug-free work place. We contract with a third party company to make sure all employees are screened before hiring and random screening is done throughout the year. Having this policy in place ensures total compliance for the safety of each employee and their co-workers.
Personal Protective Equipment: We require our employees at all times to wear their PPE; safety glasses, steel toed boots, gloves and hard hats.
CPR/First Aid Training/Defibulator: We work with our local Red Cross trainers annually to keep all employees, management, foremen and crew members, up to date on their certification. We never know how far out we are from health facilities, this ensures that we can take care of each other if the need arises.
You may have called in and gotten the response “he/she is in safety training for the day, can I take a message?” – K & S Millwrights has one full day every year where written policies and many safety topics are reviewed company wide. We contract with an outside Safety Compliance company who comes in with our management and other outside professionals to review topics and products we use to ensure every employee understand the importance of safety in their every day job. This yearly review allows us to talk as a team with all crew members about how they do, what works and doesn’t work and come up with the safest plan for everyone. In addition to these safety items, we also keep up on our forklift certifications and review our written policies; the AWAIR Safety Program, Hazard Communications and our Emergency Action Plan.
Some companies have their own safety program that they want us to review for their specific location, we also incorporate these during this day. If you have a policy for your facility, please let us know, we are more than willing to add this to our agenda for the day.
We have members of our safety committee that have been certified in the OSHA 10-Hour course through Ridgewater Community College.
We also have Certified Crane Operators and additional foremen that are certified in the Fundamentals of Rigging, Rigging Inspection and Signal Person through Hennepin Technical College.
Every Monday we gather to talk about last week and what lies ahead and once a month take time out for a refresher Tool Box Talk. K & S Millwrights is dedicated to making sure all employees have the knowledge to keep themselves and their crew member’s safe throughout the day. We take safety serious here; we understand the circumstances our employees are working in and make every effort to make sure they understand what is expected of them and the consequences their actions may create.