Joe Belli has been named president of Eide Industries, Inc., of Cerritos, California. Eide is a seventy-six-year-old custom manufacturing company specializing in fabric and metal structures, awnings, and tension structures.
Joe Belli replaces Don Araiza as the company’s fifth president since 1938. Araiza, has been with Eide since 1973 and had served as the company’s president since 1985. Don Araiza is now serving as the company’s Contracts and Legal Administrator, as a Board Member and remains a Shareholder.
Belli, who has been with the company since 1981 plans to maintain Araiza’s values of integrity, quality, service and attention to detail. “Succession planning is an important function for all companies,” said Joe Belli, “…I will continue to rely on Araiza’s experience, wisdom and knowledge in the years to come. We also plan to emphasize our unique architectural design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities and focus on more complex projects than we had in the past.”
During its seventy-six years of continuous operation, Eide Industries has become a major supplier to the architectural and building industry with welded steel and aluminum frames, exterior fabric covers, and large-scale-graphics. Eide’s industrial sewing origins date-back to the late 1800s when the Eide Family made sails in New Zealand and Seattle.
Today, Eide Industries employs 65 manufacturing and administrative professionals and operates from a 41,000-square foot facility in Southern California. The company provides custom fabric and metal products, related design, engineering and installation services nationwide. Eide Industries is a licensed contractor in the states of California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Arizona.
