Business View Magazine | September 2019

52 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 AT A GLANCE GILLESPIE & POWERS, INC. WHAT: Designs fabricates, installs, and maintains refractory-lined, high- temperature furnace equipment WHERE: St. Louis, Missouri WEBSITE: www.gillespiepowers.com G illespie & Powers, Inc. is on a mission: to produce an innovatively superior product by integrating science, art, and experience to create solutions found nowhere else in the refractory services industry. The American- owned, globally known company dates back to 1902, when Gillespie & Daly Construction, a brick and stone mason firm begun by John H. Gillespie, supplied fire clay bricks used to contain the coal-fired boilers that provided heat and energy. Refractory materials remain chemically and physically stable at high temperatures, thus their use in furnaces, kilns, incinerators, and reactors. Over time, the company began to specialize in boilers and high-temperature applications, then ultimately grew into the engineering and construction of high- temperature refractory furnaces and systems. Today, Gillespie & Powers designs, fabricates, installs, and maintains refractory-lined, high-temperature furnace equipment for the non-ferrous melting and hazardous waste industries. In its 5th generation as a thriving family business, Gillespie & Powers continues to lead the sector with owners Jack B. Gillespie and his cousin, John Peterman, at the helm. Gillespie & Powers, Inc. American owned, globally known