Haumiller Story of Integrity and Culture.

Our workplace is driven by our values

100% Employee Owned

Our culture is our Key

Where high performance automation meets innovation.

Celebrating 60 years in business, Haumiller has manufactured over 2,100 custom assembly, aerosol tipping, and capping machines for a wide range of industries. We thrive on tackling challenging projects and excel in engineering, constructing, and testing cutting-edge machines that are highly efficient, and boasting remarkable output levels. As a company fully owned by its employees, our commitment is to ensure your project's success.

1942 - Charles Haumiller's Start
Charles Haumiller started Haumiller’s Machine Shop in 1942 in the basement of his auto repair shop at 143 S. Liberty St., Elgin. Charles had been the proprietor of the garage from 1929 until 1944. In 1943, he semi-retired from the auto repair shop and concentrated on the machine shop. He designed and patented a machine to automatically cut off and bend copper tubing. These tubes were used in the "bug bombs" in World War II, which were the original aerosols.
1947 - Clifford Joins and Ownership Change
In 1947 Clifford Haumiller joined his father in the machine shop and in 1953 became the sole  owner of the machine shop. They struggled through numerous projects: wheel chair  manufacturing, hot spinning of tubes, an automatic olive place pack machine, special machines  for the dinette manufacturers, a scotch printing press, and semi-automatic adapters for stapling  guns.  
1961 - Tipping Machine Triumph
In 1961 the first Liberty Automatic Spray Tip Applicator was sold to Chase Products of  Broadview, Illinois. Later that year, the second machine was sold to DeSoto Chemical  Coatings, Chicago Heights, Illinois. There were two other tippers on the market at this same  time, one built by P.M.C. of New York, and another by Kartridge Pak of Iowa. The Haumiller  design proved to be the most efficient and flexible and captured the Tipping Machine market for  the US.  
1963 - Incorporation and Expansion
Haumiller Engineering Co. was incorporated. Then in 1965 the company  moved into a new building at 960 E. Chicago St., Elgin, which had 3600 square feet of floor  space later expanding this location to 8000Sqft. At that time there were 10 employees. 
1971 - Haumiller goes International
The new space and facilities provided what was needed to produce "made to order equipment", the custom designing and building of high-speed assembly equipment for small parts. This equipment was originally designed for the aerosol industry, but it evolved into machinery that was used for other products such as pumps, pharmaceutical and medical items which required expertise for high speed assembly. The first overseas Tipping Machine was sold to Pamasol in Pfaffikan, Switzerland in 1971.
1976 - 1982 Employee Ownership Began & Technology was on the rise
The E.S.O.P. (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) was started and the transition toward employee ownership began. The following year there were 20 employees. It was decided that a new and larger building was required. 445 Renner Drive, Elgin at an original 12,000 Sqft. was built and occupied on November 13, 1981. Around the same time, technology was on the rise and in 1982 Haumiller purchased its first computer.

It looked a little like this: 

1985 - 1997 Growth & Personnel Changes
Many changes were taking place at Haumiller in the middle 1980’s. In 1985 an additional  8,500-sq. ft. expansion to the Renner Drive building was constructed. In 1986 the first Cad Cam system was acquired.

In the same year, with a total of 50 employees, the company  became 100% employee owned. The following year Clifford Haumiller would resign as  President and Fred Yeck was appointed to the position.  

Haumiller was growing and needed more space to accommodate its 75 employees and growing  customer base. In 1989 a 14,500 square foot addition was completed to the Renner Drive  facility. Haumiller continued its success and by 1997 Fred Yeck decided to resign as president.  Vice President, Russ Holmer was appointed to the position. With a new President came new  innovations to Haumiller.  
1998 - 2014 Growth & Stability Through Chaos
🚀 Exceeding 18 million in sales
By 1998 annual sales hit company records creating momentum. The following year Haumiller  would design its first machine using SolidWorks.  

The new millennium came and with it many changes and advancements for Haumiller.

The company remained financially stable in the economic  crash of 2008 and began to expand its customer base even further to solidify its future. 
2015 - A Year of Change
Business was growing rapidly and it became more  apparent that Haumiller was growing out of their current home of over 30 years. As machine  orders grew in both footprint and quantity a decision was made by the Board of Directors to purchase land at 370 Joseph Drive in South Elgin with the intention of building a new location in  the near future.

The same year Haumiller became ISO 9001:2008 Certified, an important  accomplishment for the company.

Soon after being ISO certified, Russ Holmer who served as  President of Haumiller for 18 years resigned.

Engineering Manager, Patrick Phillips was  appointed to the position.  
2016 - First Multi -Million Dollar Medical Project Laucnhes Expansion
By the 2016 fiscal year end Haumiller had continued its revenue growth and momentum. With the  accomplishment of successfully receiving their first multi-million dollar medical project and a  growing employee population, at 112, the decision to build on the land that was acquired the  previous year in South Elgin was approved by the Board of Directors.  
2018 - From a 57,000 Foot View
Haumiller’s new 57,000 square foot facility increased capacity in order to  accommodate our growing workload. Giving the current employee population of 122 employees the opportunity for continued growth and  advancement in their career while allowing us to hire additional talented employees in the  coming years.  
2020 - Today Stability Through a Global Pandemic
The year 2020 began as any other year at Haumiller. By March a global pandemic, COVID-19,  emerged and shut down the world economy. While many businesses closed down, laid off  employees or were forced to go to a remote business model, Haumiller was deemed an  essential business by the state of Illinois. With our extensive capability to produce machines for a diverse variety of customers, it was decided that Haumiller would continue on with production.  

As a result of the pandemic, Haumiller’s customers needed ways to quickly ramp up production  of essential consumer goods such as medical device needs, cleaning products and personal  care supplies. Therefore, Haumiller expanded staff and production hours as customer orders  increased in historic highs. In mid-year 2020 Haumiller’s Board of Directors agreed to build a  30,000 sqft. expansion to the three year old facility.

By early 2021 Haumiller had a building  footprint of 87,000 sq. ft. By the end of fiscal year 2021, Haumiller saw back to back record profit years and expanded its employee headcount to over 160.  
President
Pat Phillips
Sales & Marketing Manager
Jim Wersching
Service Technician II
John Barker
Controls Engineer II
Diondre Davis
Account Manager / Aerosol
Celeste Jenkins
Mechanical Design Engineer II
Brandon Smith
Sr. Director of Engineering & Technolgy
John Ramage
Sr. Sales Coordinator
Sonia Vasquez

Values

Commitment

Honesty, integrity, excellence, customer service, and creating a competitive advantage for our customers. Our dedicated machine testing department ensures that we only deliver systems that are fully tested, qualified, and production ready at the highest possible OEE.

Integrity

We go to great lengths to protect and maintain the confidentiality of our customers. Unlike most of our competitors, you won’t find our customer’s names on our website. Every Haumiller employee is trained on this and take it very seriously.

Creativity

Our culture of teamwork and employee ownership has created a remarkable pool of experience. We have well of over 1000 years of machine building experience residing in our employee base. We feel there is no automation problem we can’t solve when we put our efforts and minds together.

Philosophy

We treat our Customers, Employees, and Vendors with honesty, integrity, and fairness, always keeping long term goals of all stakeholders at the forefront. We give back to the community and create good jobs and meaningful, challenging work.

By The Numbers

60 Years
In Business
200+
Employees
100% 
Employee Owned
2
Manufacturing Sites
119k sq/ft
Of Manufacturing
20
Country Install Base

Haumiller Employees say

President

Pat Phillips

When I started here 40 years ago I went home and told my wife this company is different. You can tell. It's about the customers. The employees... we're building something special here. We change people's lives there's no doubt about it.

Sales & Marketing Manager

Jim Wersching

Haumiller's craftsmanship is unmatched. The dedication of the employees, the pride that we have, in what we do, how we do it, it adds to why we have such a great reputation. These are the things that drive people to come to work every day and make a difference.

Controls Engineer II

Diondre Davis

We have an amazing team everybody here is super talented. I don't think there's a problem we can't solve and i think part of that does come from our employee ownership. We are Haumiller it's a representation of just like we are it.

President

Pat Phillips

When I started here 40 years ago I went home and told my wife this company is different. You can tell. It's about the customers. The employees... we're building something special here. We change people's lives there's no doubt about it.

Sales & Marketing Manager

Jim Wersching

Haumiller's craftsmanship is unmatched. The dedication of the employees, the pride that we have, in what we do, how we do it, it adds to why we have such a great reputation. These are the things that drive people to come to work every day and make a difference.

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