About HOH Group

Engineering Innovation, Continuing to Provide Exceptional Service

Since its founding in 1959, the HOH Group has been serving the needs of industry and government of Greater Chicago and abroad. HOH has grown into the HOH Group of engineering and technology companies and celebrates a half century of innovation and commerce. These segments evolved to include environmental, transportation, process, machine design, and construction management.

"We approach 50 as middle age when you're in the highest gear in terms of leadership and performance," says Harry O. Hefter, chairman of the company. "Though in a world where many companies are swallowed by either failure or merger, our longevity makes us a granddaddy in the engineering industry." Indeed, HOH has been through much in its nearly five decades. Four times it was selected by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) as having one of the year's "Ten Outstanding Engineering Achievements in the United States."

 In 1985, HOH was selected as one of eight firms representing the U.S. government on President Reagan's Executive Trade Mission on Steel making to the Peoples Republic of China, the third leg of his technological exchange program. Renowned for its contribution to the steel industry, HOH has innovated ways to control steel making processes through computers that helped heavy industry transition into high technology. HOH spun off Milltech-HOH into Neural Applications Corporation, whose technology also powers super site Stockpoint.com (which Neural acquired in 1997), rated by Barron's in October 1998 as one of the Top investment Web sites on the Internet.

The HOH Group, established in the middle of the 20th century and now an industry leader, is engaged in next-millennium thinking and innovating.