CLINTON — The City of Clinton has put its support behind a plan by the Kwik-Wall company to move most of its Springfield operation to Clinton. Kwik-Wall announced in January its plan to move into the vacant R.R. Donnelly building on Clinton’s southeast side.
Kwik-Wall owner Mike Hoyle briefed the council Monday at its rescheduled Feb. 4 meeting. Kwik-Wall builds movable partition walls for a variety of applications, including convention and meeting complexes.
The Clinton Journal first reported this story in late January after Kwik-Wall representatives spoke about their plan to the county board.
“I’d like to thank you folks for having me tonight,” Hoyle said. “Especially, Curt Homann has helped me significantly through this.
The DeWitt County Development Council has been instrumental in connecting me to this community.”
Hoyle gave city council members a brief history of the Kwik-Wall company.
Kwik-Wall started in 1929 as Capital Wood Works, a furniture and wood parts milling company. Hoyle began as controller with Kwik-Wall in 2006 and bought the company in July that year. He said, at that point, the company wasn’t doing well.
Hoyle assembled a team to begin to revitalize Kwik-Wall.
“We are now doing very well,” Hoyle said. “Our growth is requiring us to get additional space.”
Kwik-Wall’s current plant in Springfield is 72,000 square-feet, in addition to manufacturing space in the former Stahl’s Furniture store, in Mt Pulaski. They also own the former Farm & Home store, in Springfield, which measures about 63,000 square-feet.
Kwik-Wall is working toward readiness of the new Clinton plant by April 2026, coinciding with a $14 million contract with the Orange County, Fla Convention Center to build partition walls (operable walls) for that facility.
Kwik-Wall also has a partnership with a German-based company to provide panels for glass partition walls.
“Our biggest growth opportunity is in the movable, glass wall section, which is mostly offices and schools,” Hoyle said. “We were just really out of space for what we need.”
The former R.R, Donnelly building will provide Kwik-Wall with about 215,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
Hoyle also said office space at the new facility will house a “world-class” education center to train Kwik-Wall distributors around the world.
Hoyle said his goal was to have 225 employees and double Kwik-Wall’s revenue within three years.
• Read the complete story in the Friday, Feb. 14 print edition of the Clinton Journal or now in the Journal E-Edition for subscribers.
