Industrial Boiler & Mechanical started back in 1987 as a start-up Boiler Repair & Service Division for a highly respected, major mechanical contractor in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our humble beginnings started in a job site trailer in the back parking lot with one employee, one truck and one big dream. We had no shop to start off with, but later leased a section of an empty building which once served as a steel foundry several miles away. Our division focused on the service, repairs and installation of small packaged boilers within roughly a 30 mile radius.

In 1990, we branched out on our own to our current home office location on North Hawthorne Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At this point we had grown to 27 employees and were running 7 trucks and had started penetrating the Dalton Georgia carpet industry market. At the time we had no idea the carpet industry, which our company “cut its teeth”, would continue to serve as the cornerstone of core business for decades to come. Looking back, having our shop/office of 12,500 sq/ft made it feel as though we had moved into the Georgia Dome.

It would be an understatement to say the last 30 years have flown by. Along the way we’ve had some outstanding milestones that we never dreamed possible when we first started in that original jobsite trailer. While our average employee count has been a little less than a 100 employees in the most recent years, in April of 2015 we hit our all-time high employee number of 184 employees while completing a major process piping project in Dixson, Tennessee.