History

Montevideo, Minnesota has been the home of Chandler since 1961. The company has been located at it's current site since 1969. C. William Johnson purchased the company from the founder in 1986 and still runs it today along with an experienced management team. Over 30 employees have utilized company stock options to acquire ownership positions in the company during Johnson's tenure.

Steady, profitable growth over the last 20 years has contributed to an excellent credit reputation. The company has had three recent expansions of the Montevideo facility to over 50,000 sq ft, and added a Twin Cities production branch. To support this progress, significant capital investments have consistently been made in equipment technology, computer systems, engineering, and management growth. The company now has over 80 CNC machines installed and operating with over 110 full time employees.

Our current customer base includes over 30 Fortune 1,000 companies, many who have been Chandler customers for decades. We are on a number of U.S.customer worldwide preferred/approved supplier lists. This demands that we regularly ship finished goods to customer worldwide locations from Minnesota and our offshore partners in China and Taiwan. We expect our industry focus strategy to lead us in into business partnerships in expanded worldwide locations.