Progress Update #46

Overview/Project Accomplishments:

• Founders wall pour #4 completed.
• Installing structural steel and metal deck on rotunda level.
• Installing Exhibit Hall structural steel.
• Preparing metal decking over the Institute for concrete.

WARREN FABRICATING & MACHINING CORPORATION (WAR FAB)

QUESTION: Where is the ‘large’ Exhibit Deck Steel coming from?

ANSWER: Warren Fabricating & Machining Corporation (War Fab) located in Hubbard, Ohio. War Fab is a unique manufacturer specializing in the fabrication, machining, and assembly of large steel weldments.

The Founder of War Fab was a former Sergeant (E-5) in the U.S. Marine Corps, John C. Rebhan II. John started out in an 8,000 sq. ft. rented garage with his wife Susan working and managing the offices in 1967. Over the next fifty years, the company evolved to employ over 250 employees and 600,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space. His wife would move from working and managing the office to serving the company as an advisor and later Executive Board Member. John and Susan’s daughter, Regina Rebhan Mitchell, is now running the company as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

John’s tenacious work ethic and tremendous drive had not only allowed War Fab to succeed, but he had also created War Fab Field & Erection in Texas for field installation of Warren Fabricated parts, as well as create Ohio Steel Sheet & Plate. Companies which all remain active and successful today.

The National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation is honored to have War Fab as part of our team!  A Museum ‘built by Veterans for Veterans.’