Who We Are

About Specialty Industries

Specialty Industries can handle all of your contract packaging and assembling needs in Northeast Missouri, including De Kalb, Dearborn, Easton, Gower, and St. Joseph, MO. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Buchanan County, Missouri, providing meaningful employment for individuals with disabilities.

Our Mission

Specialty Industries will provide meaningful employment for individuals with disabilities.

Our Vision

Specialty Industries will be a premier manufacturing partner in our community. We will lead the effort to promote a better understanding of the capabilities and employability of individuals with disabilities.

Our Values

  • Provide a dignified work experience in a safe environment
  • Be respectful of each employee’s abilities and offer continued training to provide the opportunity for employment success
  • Advocate to protect the right to choose sheltered employment as a valuable work choice
  • Coordinate our business with community agencies for the benefit of all employees at Specialty Industries
  • Keep a continued focus on our mission for all business and financial decisions

Services

What We Do Best

Assembly services

packaging services

CUSTOM PROJECTS

Proven Success

The Numbers Don’t Lie

Specialty Industries is Buchanan County’s premiere assembly and packaging services provider. If you have a product to push, we are your outsource partner. 

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SI: A Great Place to Work

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Persons with a Disability employed in 2021

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Other Services

Specialty Industries is a proud member of the

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Specialty Industries is proud to support A Team Missouri and the Dignity Has A Voice campaign.

Dignity Has A Voice, powered by the self-advocacy organization A Team Missouri, was created to tell the real story of people who choose employment in sheltered workshops.

A Team Northwest Missouri is the local chapter of this statewide advocacy group empowering people with disabilities to defend and protect the right to choose sheltered employment as a valuable work choice.

Learn more at www.facebook.com/ATeamNWMO.