New headquarters facility for Sentry Equipment
Sentry Equipment and Pabst Farms Development held a groundbreaking ceremony on 18 October for the Sentry Equipment new headquarters facility in Oconomowoc.
Sentry Equipment and Pabst Farms Development held a groundbreaking ceremony on 18 October for the Sentry Equipment new headquarters facility. The new 51,100-square-foot building will house company offices and manufacturing. The company manufactures sampling systems and components, automatic samplers, and specialty heat exchangers.
Industries that Sentry serves include utility/power generation, oil refining, pharmaceutical, chemical, plastics, food, mining and cement.
Sentry products are distributed worldwide and the company has been the recipient of multiple awards for export sales.
Sentry Equipment CEO Mike Farrell addressed the 100 Sentry employee owners during the groundbreaking: ‘For without each and every one of you we would not be here today starting on a new building to house our collective and individual creativity, hard work and effort.
In our company we machine, weld and assemble products, we solve problems for the people who use our products, we design new products, we make processes work better, and we do it best because every employee is an owner; every customer is a commitment’.
Dan Warren, development manager at Pabst Farms Development, said Sentry Equipment will be a welcome addition to the Commerce Centre at Pabst Farms.
‘We are particularly happy that a long-time, highly respected employee-owned business has decided to relocate within Oconomowoc’.
Sentry Equipment began as The Henszey Company in 1924.
The Henszey family sold the business to its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan Trust in 1986.
Currently, 100 employee owners are actively engaged in the expanding company.
Sentry’s continued growth, as well as two recent acquisitions, has given rise to the need for additional manufacturing and office space beyond what its current Oconomowoc site allows.
The resulting entity is the single company with the most diverse array of sampling equipment and solutions in the world.