Hygienic equipment-maker CSI acquires Chadwick

Both companies provide equipment for hygienic processing industries such as food, beverage, dairy, health, pharmaceutical and biotechnology. CSI, incorporated as Central States Industrial Equipment & Service, has previously focused on providing equipment to architecture and engineering firms that work with processing plants, whereas Chadwick has been successful in providing equipment directly to the plants, Marketing Manager Tina Phillips said.

“That’s really the primary difference, and that’s why we felt (Chadwick was) complementary to us,” she said, adding that Chadwick also expands CSI’s market to the North Carolina region.

The merged company will operate as CSI Chadwick for about a year while it completes the transition, after which it will drop the Chadwick name, Phillips said.

Chadwick brings 14 employees to CSI’s 100-member staff. CSI President and CEO Mark Cook will continue in that role at CSI Chadwick, and Chadwick General Manager Bud Watts will stay in that position at the merged company.

CSI started in 1977 in Jefferson City and moved its headquarters to the Partnership Industrial Center in Springfield about seven years later, according to Phillips. It also has an office in Fowler, Calif.