The History of Wiley Metal

In 1982, with years of experience in the steel fabricating industry and an entrepreneurial spirit, Verne Wiley set forth in creating and developing his own fabricating company -
Wiley Metal Fabricating, Inc.

Wiley Metal Fabricating was built with a strict emphasis on the value of quality, responsiveness, flexibility and overall service to all customers. These values are the very ones that have made Wiley Metal Fabricating, Inc. into what we are today - and most importantly, the values that will propel us into the future.

Verne's two sons, Ed and Rob, joined the company in the 1980's - believing in their father's vision and in the values and principles he had built the company upon. With commitment and resolve, they have taken Wiley Metal Fabricating to heightened levels.

Starting in the year 2000, Wiley Metal Fabricating began to pursue a diversification growth strategy within the metal fabricating marketplace. After almost 18 months of investigation, the company was expanded with the acquisition of IQL Corporation, a 13-year-old custom metal fabricating company based in Louisville, KY.

The synergy combination of the two companies provides:

• Manufacturing plant area in excess of 200,000 S.F.
• Total current employment in excess of 275 persons
• Total capital equipment investment, to date, in excess of $10 Million
• With a $7 Million investment since 1998.

The combination of Wiley Metal Fabricating, Inc. and IQL Corporation has clearly made us one of the premier metal fabricators in the Midwest.