Northwest Electric

Northwest Electric is an industrial electromechanical sales, service and repair company, known for motor repair. It works on electric motors, pumps, gearboxes, fans, blowers and generators, with work on motors up to 10,000 HP and explosion-proof motors certified by Underwriters Laboratories. Its customers are mostly in agriculture, ethanol, aggregate and mining, food processing, utilities, municipalities and manufacturing.

The company was founded in 1955 as a motor repair shop and remains family-owned, with about 39 employees across branches in Columbus, Norfolk, Kearney, Lincoln and Le Mars, Iowa. Columbus is the corporate headquarters. Service requests are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the phone line, and the company has a Columbus address at 1414 East 23rd Street.