Feathers and feather products, Petroleum industry machinery
Lillsun Manufacturing Co
The history of Lillsun Mfg. Co., Inc begins back in 1936, when Herman Sundermann, then 18 years old, went to work for a company named Schroeder Manufacturing. They manufactured a line of wooden products for the food industry which included peels, proofing boards and paddles. After serving in WWII, and returning to work at his former job, he became restless with the new management and thought he would like to try something new. He found a job as shipping room foreman and dreamed of being his own boss. In 1951, with a $200 loan to buy their first machine, he and his wife Lillian Sundermann started Lillsun Mfg. Co in their 16 by 22 foot garage. Keeping his day job, the two of them working in the garage at night, and using his vacation time to make business calls, they soon started shipping a few orders.
