Our Story - LeMar Industries
Home > Our Story - LeMar Industries
Our Story - LeMar Industries

LeMar Industries offers comprehensive grain handling and storage solutions. Founded by Bob and Sharron Martin in 1982, LeMar has established itself as a leader in the industry.

LeMar industries specializes in grain handling, structures, and temporary storage solutions. Since becoming a division of CTB Midwest Inc. in 2012, LeMar has thrived in consistently providing high-quality products and services to the grain industry, while supporting CTB’s mission of Helping to Feed a Hungry World®.

With in-house engineering and detailing capabilities utilizing the latest CAD technology, LeMar ensures reliability and quality tailored to the unique requirements of its dealers. With an experienced design team comprised of structural, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers, LeMar collaborates closely with their customers to develop solutions meeting their specific needs. The company is capable of custom designing products to accommodate site-specific conditions, such as wind, seismic, and snow loads, for locations across the United States and around the world. Additionally, LeMar can adapt their standard products as necessary to meet individual customer requirements.

Nick

“Over the last 40 years, LeMar has continued to prove itself as the industry standard in providing structural solutions to our dealer partners. From the initial design and engineering to fabrication and all the way through to install, we pride ourselves on Leadership Through Innovation®. Through this relentless pursuit of improvement and continual standard of excellence, we are truly proud of the impact we are able to have in not only the lives of our team and our dealers, but the difference we are able to make by Helping to Feed a Hungry World ®.”

Nick Kiederlen
Plant Manager
Rod

“LeMar’s renowned quality and partnership keep customers coming back time and again. Our team works with customers to provide quality steel products to meet their needs. We are proud knowing we make a difference by Helping to Feed a Hungry World®.”

Rod Peterson
Sales & Customer Service Manager
James

“At LeMar, there is a purpose behind everything we do. By using Leadership through Innovation®, we give our dealers the tools they need to succeed. Over the last 40 years we have grown with our dealers. We have changed together, just as the world has changed; creating, building, problem solving, and improving.”

James Anderson
Supply Chain Manager
Alex

“LeMar Industry’s design and engineering team take great pride in providing our dealers with structures that fit all their needs. The employees at LeMar work to shape and fabricate steel into structures that have an important impact on the global agricultural supply chain. LeMar’s employees use relentless improvement to ensure we can continue to help our dealers improve and grow so we can all continue to make a difference by Helping to Feed a Hungry World ®.”

Alex Carnahan
Product Manager
previous arrow
next arrow

LeMar Industries’ convenient location in Des Moines, Iowa, is at the crossroads of the nation with easy access to all points of the nation through the I-80/I-35 corridor.

LeMar Industries has nearly 100,000 square feet of state-of-the-art LEAN manufacturing space, and carries a large inventory of steel on hand to meet any customer’s needs. LeMar manufactures a variety of standard and custom-designed products in this facility.

Focused on ease of doing business together, LeMar provides a superior product offering to the growing grain, fertilizer, seed, feed and aggregate & mining markets. We’re setting the standard for excellence worldwide.

Our Certifications:

To improve your experience on this site, for social sharing and to provide you with personalized ad content, we may use cookies and similar technologies. We may also collect anonymous visitor traffic information, primarily to help us refine our site. You can set your cookie preferences within the settings of most web browsers. See our privacy policy.