HISTORY
OF ALL POWER, INC.
The history of All Power Inc. (API) starts with its original company “Smith
Electric Company” which was an electric motor repair shop located on 4th
and Jones Street in downtown Sioux City, IA.
“Smith Electric” was owned and operated by Axel Smith and serviced local
packinghouses, as well as other industries using electric motors, all through
the early 1900’s.
In 1926 Axel Smith hired Swen Anderson and taught him the motor repair
business. After Axel’s death, Swen bought the business from Axel’s son, and
operated the business as a motor repair shop into the late 1950’s when Vern
Hughes became his partner.
A truck route, at this time, had been established serving South Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska packing houses for picking up and delivering
motors for repairs and as time went on these plants began to request delivery of
other industrial items, as well as the repaired motors.
In 1959, Gene Anderson Sr. came to work for “Smith Electric” and formed an
engineering department to develop more items to sell and to work with the plants
maintenance departments for additional conveying systems.
By 1961, the company had been offered (and accepted) “distributorships”
with many large manufacturing companies such as: Linkbelt Co., Chain Belt Co.,
Gates Rubber Co., Chicago Cutlery Co., Russell Harrington Co., etc. The motor
business was slowly phasing out because of new modern techniques used in the
manufacture of motors creating a situation where it was cheaper to buy a new
motor than have one repaired.
So in 1961, to fit its new image as an industrial supplier, a new name was
selected for the company – All Power Inc.
The company was incorporated in 1962 and is a closely held business owned
by two families, servicing “food processing plants (mainly meat packing plants)
throughout the U.S and Canada.
All Power manufactures packing house equipment consisting of: engineered
kill hook equipment, cooler and cut floor systems, stainless steel moving top
conveyor tables, overhead chain conveyors, drive transmissions, walking beam
systems, specialty hooks, hog and beef trolleys, shackles, pneumatic conveyor
systems, hydraulic systems, etc. Also, we are distributors for other industrial
manufacturing companies carrying large inventories of products that are shipped
daily to customers.
All Power is made up of the following
departments:
Engineering Department – capable of
plant consulting and design services, plant layout, auto-cad drawings, USDA
approval drawings, conveyor design, etc.
Sales Engineering Department –
consists of sales representatives personally calling on plants throughout the
U.S and Canada
Customer Service Department –
supports the sales representatives and personally handles hundreds of phone
calls from customers weekly, quoting prices, writing and expediting orders, etc.
Shop Personnel:
Machine Shop Department – Precise
machining of parts for new equipment boring sprockets, turning shafts, repairing
parts for existing equipment with metal turning lathes, grinders, drill presses,
etc.
Trolley Department – Manufacturer of
hog and beef trolleys, shackles, gambrels, specialty hooks, hangers, chain
attachments.
Fabrication Department – Assembly of
stainless steel conveyors, overhead drives, traction wheel turns, take-ups,
platforms, overhead steel components and replacement parts for existing
equipment.
Warehouse Shipping and Receiving Department
– Ships warehouse items via UPS, LTL freight and complete truckloads to our
customer’s daily. Receives incoming freight, handles inventory control.
All Power Inc. moved to a new building at
2228 Murray street, Sioux City, Iowa in September of 2001. A new 40,000 square
feet manufacturing plant and 5,000 square feet office to better serve our
customers
SERVING THE PACKER FOR 48 YEARS
All Power,
Inc