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Stuart Padnos finds beauty in odd shapes with his metal sculptures
Holland, MI — While driving southbound on Pine Avenue along the foot of Lake Macatawa, one passes the landmark smokestacks of the power plant and then the behemoth mountains of scrap metal at the Louis Padnos Iron and Metal Company. In contrast to these imposing industrial vistas, a cuff of lush green grass along the roadside serves as the gallery floor for a collection of abstract and often whimsical outdoor sculptures, assembled from the piles of scrap metal just behind them.
The creator of this “family” of work is Stuart Padnos, 86, a self-taught artist and art aficionado, and senior executive vice president of the 103-year-old Padnos company.
Video: Padnos shredder can chew up cars
A beefy, new shredder at Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. in Walker was the main attraction at Tuesday's meeting of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. The "King of All Shredders" is capable of chewing up appliances, autos and I-beams, sorting steel from non-metals and residue.
Source: mLive.com
Scrap Yard Lofts: Downtown Living with a Twist
That big, empty warehouse just to the north of the mission could soon become Scrap Yard Lofts, a mixed-use development proposed today to the Holland Brownfield Redevelopment Authority by a partnership between the Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. and Bosgraaf Commercial.
Read the complete article at the Holland Sentinel by clicking here.
Visit the Scrap Yard Lofts website to learn more.
Eagles soar and fish at Holland yard
At Padnos we are proud to say that we are "recycling to preserve our environment". What better symbol of this connection could there be than the flock of American Bald Eagles which has recently been visiting our Holland yard, soaring and fishing for hours on end. Ted Swoboda took all these pictures either standing in our yard or in a nearby park shooting toward our facility.For a link to Ted's website and for more information about his work, click here.
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Padnos New York Times Article
HOLLAND, Mich. — Right up there with putting an aging parent in a nursing home stands the wrenching job of handing over a family businessto be run by outsiders.
Stuart Padnos tribute to President Ford
Stuart Padnos conceived of “48”, his scrap sculpture of a University of Michigan football player, as a tribute to his friend, President Gerald R Ford. Ford wore the number 48 when he was a leader on the Michigan team in the 1930’s. By coincidence, 1948 was also the year President Ford first ran for Congress, and Seymour and Stuart Padnos were avid supporters.Skilled welders at IXL Machine Shop, a division of Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company, fabricated the sculpture during the winter of 2002-2003, and our gallery photo shows the sculpture shortly after it emerged from the shop, before being placed on “sculpture row” along Pine Avenue in Holland. When officials at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum heard about the sculpture, they inquired whether or not it might be available for permanent placement on the Museum grounds. Stuart and the Company were naturally pleased and honored to be able to oblige. The sculpture was formally unveiled and dedicated at the Museum on July 31, 2003, during the celebration of President Ford’s 90th birthday.
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Padnos Celebrates 100 Years of serving Holland, MI
By Roel Garcia staff writer
Amid hundreds of employees at his family company's annual picnic Friday, Seymour Padnos remembered when the company had just two workers -- his mother and father.
"My mother did the books and had the purse and my father ran the operation and drove the trucks" said Padnos, 84, chairman of Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company.