Where We Came From
Our story begins circa 2010 in Sandwich, Illinois, in a two-truck garage at my parent’s house. Like many of our customers, motorsports played an essential role in my life growing up. Dirt bikes, ATVs, snowmobiles, trucks, and racing – the drill. When stuff broke, I didn’t have the cash to have someone else fix it, so my brothers and I did the work ourselves, which eventually led to fixing other people’s things. When I bought my first Duramax, initially to haul my race trailer around, it didn’t take long before I developed a passion for diesel power, which led to even more work – so much that by 2011 the garage was not cutting it; anymore! Moving to our first shop in Sugar Grove, where we kept expanding into adjoining spaces, growing from 2,400SF to 8,500SF in only four years. Then by 2015, we ran out of room again and moved to Sycamore into a 22,500SF shop. More than doubling the size allowed us to bring a powder coating operation in-house which creates all those eye-popping colours under our customer’s hoods.
In spring 2018, we made another move into a 35,000SF facility in DeKalb, Illinois, after again outgrowing the shop in Sycamore. The powder coat shop has expanded and now includes high temperature resistant ceramic coatings and two curing ovens. We’ve also added CNC mills and lathes to help advance our R&D work and high-quality production.
Today Wehrli Custom Fabrication & Powder Coating employs over 25, including my three brothers: Ryan, Mitch, Chad, and my partner, Brittany. We’re an ever-growing group of hard-working and dedicated individuals with talents streaming across the board. Our goal is to serve you, the customer, with the highest quality products and the best technical advice combined with excellent service.