Otto Hopfinger And Sons In

Otto Hopfinger Welding, now Otto Hopfinger & Sons, Inc, was founded in 1952 by Otto and Beatrice Hopfinger. the company was renamed to Otto Hopfinger & Son in 1955, as eldest son, Frederick, joined the family business; in 1962, a final name change, honoring the birth of their second son, Otto Jr.


Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 91st and Fon du lac, the business itself was born following ten years of dedicated service by Otto Sr., as a Power Plant engineer at A.O. Smith and American Motors. Initially a steel fabrication company, fiberglass manufacturing was introduced in 1965, when, quite by chance, a customer required the fabrication of fiberglass parts and wasn’t sure where to turn.


On a 1967 business trip, Otto Sr. spotted a home for sale just off rural Highway 60 in Hustisford, Wisconsin; a brief stop and look around the home, and six months later Otto and Beatrice moved the family and the business 50 miles west.


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