About Us
Our Locations
New York
Texas
California
Pennsylvania
Florida
As a multiple-facilities manufacturer, we have the resources to quickly react and make changes where needed throughout the organization. Each of Winholt’s manufacturing facilities operates on lean manufacturing, focused on quality, flexibility and cost for optimized performance. All of our manufacturing facilities have the capacity to produce product solutions in stainless steel, aluminum and steel. We continuously invest in automated capital equipment, adding to our US manufacturing efficiencies and shortened lead times.
“Our People Make the Difference”
Winholt’s associates have supported the business over 78 years. Their dedication is a testament to the success and longevity of our company. Winholt practices a “We Care” culture to be a positive influence and model of how business should be conducted for our customers, associates, suppliers and community.
Our History
- 1946
- 1967
- 1977
- 1980's
- 1998 to 2003
- 2000
- 2006
- 2007
- 2009
- 2012
- 2016
- 2018
- 2020
- 2021
- 2024
- Today's Story
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1946
Founded in 1946 by Irving Holtz and his brother Mannie Holtz, Winholt began as a shopping cart distributor to neighborhood supermarkets in NYC.
Together they began expanding the company’s product line and business, selling to original supermarket chains like King Kullen and A&P.
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1967
Winholt moved to Garden City, Long Island, in New York and opened its first manufacturing facility designing material handling equipment.
An industry standard, the “Classic” U-Boat was born.
Originally designed with a wood deck, todays U-Boat has diamond steel decking.
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1977
In 1977 Jonathan Holtz joined his father and uncle in the business.
Jon immediately established solid working relationships with the fast-emerging mass merchandising and home center chains.
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1980’s
Winholt expands manufacturing nationally opening facilities in Texas, Georgia, and California, becoming a leading USA manufacturer with a national supply chain advantage.
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1998 to 2003
Winholt expanded further during this time into the bakery and foodservice industries selling to restaurants, hotels, catering facilities and restaurant chains.
In addition, the company experiences growth through acquisitions of Nu-Vu, Wilder and SPF companies.
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2000
Winholt practices a “We Care” culture to be a positive influence and model of how business should be conducted for our customers, associates, suppliers, and community.
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2006
Overcoming adversity – July 4, 2006 – lightning struck our manufacturing facility in Garden City, NY.
Having multiple manufacturing facilities, we were able to divert NY orders to our GA, TX, and CA plants.
All the facilities ran expanded shifts to increase production which allowed us to maintain on time shipments to our customers.
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2007
New York manufacturing is moved to a new location in Allentown, PA.
Now with manufacturing operations resorted on the east coast we continue to offer our customers a national supply chain advantage with facilities in PA, TX and CA.
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2009
Dominick Scarfogliero, an intricate part of Winholt’s management team is promoted to President & COO.
Jonathan Holtz becomes Chairman & CEO and remains actively involved in global development and overall strategic direction of the company.
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2012
Winholt expands the product line to include Custom Stainless Steel Fabrication.
Building to our customers specifications, focused on the custom details to supply the highest quality products that are NSF, ETL and UL listed.
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2016
Seeing a trend in online ordering Winholt started to design and manufacture equipment for e-commerce, chain fulfillment and order picking, and distribution centers.
Over the next few years and through Covid-19, all industries, experienced growth in online ordering. This growth is projected to continue in the future.
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2018
Dominick Scarfogliero promoted to President and CEO, with Jonathan Holtz remaining as the company’s Chairman.
Jonathan Holtz, Winholt’s Chairman, stated: “Dominick has contributed tremendously to the company’s growth since he moved into the role as President & COO in 2009. Winholt has a strong history of being a leader in our markets, and I am very confident in Dominick’s abilities to continue to successfully grow the company in the future. With Dominick’s leadership skills, he has built a strong team around him and one of my greatest satisfactions has been seeing the quality associates we have do outstanding work and grow within our organization.”
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2020
Our Dallas Texas facility expansion opened in October 2020, it has added significant manufacturing and supply chain capacity.
We’ve invested additional automated capital equipment that has added to our US manufacturing efficiencies and shortened lead times which supports our customers.
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2021
Winholt’s California manufacturing facility moves to Ontario doubling the warehouse space with increased manufacturing and logistics capabilities.
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2024
Winholt celebrates the company’s expansion with the grand opening of the new Florida location. Regional sales manager, Alex Ramos, joins the Winholt team in representing the Florida territory. This addition of the 4th Winholt U.S. facility will add significant manufacturing and supply chain capacity as well as shorten lead times to support our customers.
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Today’s Story
For over 78 years, Winholt, a leading USA manufacturer with a global supply chain, has offered innovation, experience, quality products and trusted service. Winholt is headquartered in Woodbury, NY with four national manufacturing facilities in PA, FL, TX and CA.
Our Vision: We will care for our customers, associates, suppliers, and community, and be the equipment leader in the industries we serve.
Our Mission: Using our experienced team of associates, we will provide our “We Care” culture to our customers by supplying value engineered solutions.
What Our Customers Say About Us…
“I have worked for Saker ShopRite for over 42 years and have been purchasing equipment from Winholt for over 35 years. Starting back when your headquarters were in Garden City Long Island. Both our companies have grown over the years, and I am proud to have had you as a supportive partner. From New stores from the ground up to last minute remodels & everyday needs – Winholt has always been there on time, built to last and competitively priced.“ – Suzette LoGiudice, Director of Purchasing, Saker ShopRite
“I’m writing to compliment Winholt on their extraordinary service, product quality and production times during TFM’s 5S labor engineering project. With the volume of tables ordered, over 100, TFM was pleased with the fast production time and Winholt’s competitive pricing. Production was even ahead of original schedule! Your team all around did an exceptional job of planning, producing, and shipping of the tables. Outside of the 5S program, Winholt continues to provide the same experience– product quality, service, and prideful shipping. TFM appreciates the Winholt partnership! WInholt will continue to be our first stop for any new projects. Many thanks!” – Amanda Kivett, Senior Associate – Sourcing, The Fresh Market
“I would like to personally thank you and Winholt for all you do for southeastern Grocers. Winholt has been providing us with great customer service for a long time. We thank you all for working with us on new innovative ways for our associates and customers. Working together allows us to be more proactive and communicate better. Winholt never lets us down with quality of product and provides us with the best items. Again, from our Design/Procurement Team, we say THANK YOU WINHOLT.” – Tiffany Cone, Procurement Manager Southeastern Grocers LLC
“Harris Teeter, LLC has partnered with Winholt for at least 25 years. In all that time, Winholt has supplied us with quality products at a competitive price in a timely manner. Our business relationship has continued to be a positive experience for both of our companies.” – Deb Ross, Equipment Buyer, Harris Teeter
Innovation. Experience. Quality
Manufacturing Capabilities
DESIGN & 3D CAD
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Our engineers work in three-dimensional computer-aided design, to create design solutions which precisely represent and allow you to visualize your products. We help you to explore and share ideas, visualize concepts and simulate how designs will perform before they are made.
MATERIALS
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Superior high quality materials, 300 series stainless steel in 16 gauge and 14 gauge, aluminum and steel manufacturing capabilities, make us stand out in the industry.
MANUFACTURING
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We manufacture using high quality, high precision equipment. Our capabilities include: CNC Automated Punch Cuts, Robotic Welding, Laser Cutting, CNC Forming and Bending, 3D CAD Modeling Design and Powder Coating.
QUALITY
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Once welded, our products are polished, seam edges and welds are buffed to a clean bright shine. We quality-inspect each product to ensure that it is manufactured to the
exact specifications, before it is crated
and shipped.
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY
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We continuously make improvements to enhance your experience as a Winholt customer — we have an industry-leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to support our overall business operations, allowing us to achieve operational excellence and improve productivity while meeting your expectations. We offer our customers the opportunity for onboarding with electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to allow electronic communication for faster processing of purchase orders and invoices. In addition, we offer GS1 US system standards for unique
product identification.
Industries Served
Winholt is a global manufacturer of high-quality solution-based equipment: E-commerce, supply chain fulfillment and order picking, distribution center, foodservices, food handling, along with material handling. Winholt supplies equipment solutions to supermarkets, retailers, foodservice and restaurant chains, supply chain industries and e-commerce businesses.
Industry Memberships & Affiliations
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