Who We Are
Founded in 2002, Industrial Solutions & Innovation, LLC (ISI) is a solution provider focused on delivering answers to the complex questions and challenges faced by piping and vessel fabricators and contractors. The goal was to be a place where innovative, hard-working, and loyal team members would want to work with the goal of helping innovative, hard-working, and (eventually) loyal clients solve problems. The objective of creating this company with a focus on operating from a Biblical world view has been the goal. To make the core values of work is a calling, stewardship, family, and ingenuity real and visible was and is the goal.
ISI strives to bring solutions merging various technologies helping fabricators and contractors “find the dollars” lost to inefficiency and outdated processes. Using the solutions ISI provides, moderately skilled craftspeople can produce at a higher rate in both quantity and quality. This is a force multiplier for shops with limited space or difficulty in finding labor.
Our Mission
We, the ISI TEAM, will strive to live out the purpose of glorifying God by promoting economic, social, and spiritual human flourishing by providing innovative and effective solutions to our clients in the trades-related industries.
Real solutions for real people performing real work.
Our Values
Integrity
We will operate with integrity: celebrate our successes and own our failures.
Steward
We will steward our resources and finances: we will have both a firm footing and a plan for the future.
Purpose
Work is a calling – we GET to work here.
Excellence
We will be a source of solutions to our clients, not just a seller of machines.
Family
We take care of family: employees, vendors, and clients.
Our History
2002
Darrell Whittenberg founded Industrial Solutions & Innovation in Springfield, Missouri with Axxair and Protem as their first product lines.
2003
ISI began distributing for Watts Mueller in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana and quickly became their top distributor.
2004
ISI relocated to Alvin, Texas so they could better serve their clients along the Gulf.
2006
ISI became the exclusive distributor for Arc Machines in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Lousiana, opening a service center as well as offering a rental fleet.
2007
ISI added AMET to its package of fabrication solutions.
2009
ISI expanded its facilities to provide a training center for clients.
2010
ISI’s machine shop was created to be able to better respond to client needs as well as opening a full-service shop for grinding tool bits for the client’s severing and beveling applications.
2012
ISI started Axxair USA as a subsidiary.
2014
ISI began distributing EWM products and became their only service center in the USA.
ISI added Copier Beveling to its distributor line-up.
ISI also added Magnatech to its package of solutions
2016
ISI expanded its facilities by over 300% to include a new machine shop, showroom, training facility, and fabrication facility in Alvin, Texas.
ISI continued to grow its rental abilities by adding Watts Specialties machines to its fleet.
ISI added Rotoweld to its line-up, expanding its automated welding cell options as well as its rental fleet.
2017
ISI began the development of its Redi2Weld systems. Offering customizable levels of automation to its clients.
ISI staff volunteered with local response teams during the Hurricane Harvey relief effort.
2018
ISI sold its first Redi2Weld hotwire tig system.
ISI expanded its offerings to include Lincoln orbital MIG solutions.
Community efforts following Hurricane Harvey were continued by partnering with the 4B Response Network.
2019
ISI develops its first Redi2Weld MIG system and launches the development of several other Redi2Weld concepts.