Hooper also provides local service on fire protection, heating and cooling and plumbing systems to both residential and commercial customers.
Its work can be found at places like Epic Systems in Verona, SHINE Medical Technologies in Janesville, Sub-Zero and Promega in Fitchburg and American Family Insurance in Madison.
It also does work for area hospitals and clinics, Madison Gas and Electric, Dairyland Power, We Energies, Cardinal Glass and some of the largest construction firms in the state like J.H. Findorff & Son, JP Cullen & Sons, Kraemer Brothers and Ideal Builders.
A Hooper welder works on a component inside the company’s new fabrication facility in DeForest. It includes spaces for work on pipes, stainless steel, sheet metal, custom metal projects and plumbing.
Climate control
The new fabrication facility, considered one of the most advanced in the country, means many projects can be built indoors and not at a job site, which can be hampered by extreme temperature swings depending on the season.
The climate-controlled fabrication space with ventilation systems at individual work stations, allows for more efficient, better quality and safer work. In addition, employees no longer have to dig materials out of piles of snow in the winter or worry about theft from job sites.
Jib cranes scattered throughout the fabrication facility also reduce injuries and speed production on projects that involve heavy parts.
“We don’t have to manhandle things anymore,” said Sean Kuzdas, the company’s pipe fabrication coordinator. “It’s huge. Everything is linear. Raw material at one end (of the building), finished product at the other end.”
