Business View Magazine | April 2020

23 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2020 L . B . WHI TE L.B. White is constantly coming out with new products, or new innovations, or changes to its current product line that make what it produces easier to use, or easier to work on, or just more robust. “We’ve recently entered what we call ‘the big heat’ realm in the portable heat category, which are highly-engineered products with higher BTUs,” he explains. “We weren’t in that market four years ago and now we’ve got three indirect products that fit that market and also two other direct-fire products that are in that market. So, just in the last three or four years, we’ve come out with all kinds of new products on the portable heat side. And then, we always try to innovate and do different things on the agriculture side to make sure we’re on the front end of things.” Thinking long-term, Gagermeier notes: “China has one fifth of the world’s population but they eat about half of the world’s pork production. So, they eat more pork, per capita, than any other country in the world - that is why we have an Vice President of Operations, John Funke