The Elipticon Story
“Great Curved Windows deserve beautiful matching millwork.”
Elipticon Wood Products built its reputation by producing outstanding curved millwork and jambs - matching the wood species and exact profiles chosen by contractors and home owners across the country.
1,508 casing profiles in stock and growing. Elipticon is known for producing straight and curved historical reproductions of classic millwork. Contractors, through their lumber yards, develop signature profiles unique to their homes using Elipticon’s coordinated molding groups (including casing, base, crown, chair rail). Each design compliments the other and adds to the unique style of well-designed homes.
For five years in a row, Elipticon has been recognized by Wood and Wood Products Magazine. Each year, the magazine’s Wood 100 List honors the fastest growing firms.
In 2003, The Builders Edge Award recognized Elipticon for industry leadership, employee practices and continuing commitment to improving communities.
It’s great to be recognized for work we did yesterday, but our focus today remains on the task at hand: Delivering outstanding curved millwork and jambs -on time- to the most demanding customers. To further improve our process, we just added a new KOMO Mach 1 CNC with a 5X10 bed. Employees designed a new floor plan for our 17,000 sf facility - cutting steps and improving flow to produce 20% more work with the same hourly effort. Each year we bring new equipment, quality employees and imaginative thinking to every process and product to improve efficiency, quality and service.
We’re working to be at the Top of Your Wood List
About the Owner
"Big John" Wiley is known for his big heart at least as much as his height or his entrepeneurship. His community involvement has led him to take on a multitude of humanitarian projects, some of which are listed here.
John has been a Rotarian for over 30 years, including a stint as District Governer. He currently acts as President of the Rotary Appleton Breakfast Club. In the past, he has acted as head of the District 627 World Community Service Committee, which was solely responsible for over 40 international projects during his 7 years as chairman. This past year, he traveled to Niger as part of an international effort to eradicate polio.
His passion over the past few years has been Power Flour. He actively lobbies for support locally, nationally, and internationally on behalf of this organization, and serves as Vice Chairman of the Power Flour Action Network. Millions of babies in third world countries die each year, and many that survive lack normal brain development because of malnutrition. These children are being fed solid foods because that is all that is available to them, but their bodies cannot properly digest it. Power flour is designed to break down the native foods (such as rice, corn, or oats) so the babies can survive. John shares the vision that this will help solve world hunger issues.
For 15 years, John served on the Appleton Salvation Army board, including 3 years of running the homeless shelter.
John was heavily involved with Winnebago Mental Health Hospital for a decade, including chairman of a successful effort to keep the state from closing it down. He opened a receiving home for children in Winnebago county needing foster care. He also helped run rehabilitation programs for troubled youth, called Lost River and the RRR Ranch.
John worked with handicapped children in college and went on to teach slow learners for 4 years after. This continued with Big Brothers, Boys & Girls Club, coaching athletics, and music organizations for many years later. John is a founding director of the Appleton Boys and Girls Club, and currently serves on their board. He is a member of Riverview Lutheran Church, and has been chairmen of committees both there and with Fox Valley Lutheran High School. He is a regular at the Harmony Cafe, a meeting place for troubled youth.
John is a founding director of Outlook Graphics (NASDAQ: OUTL) and has served on their board since 1978. He has also served as executive director of the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce (69-70) and Neenah (70-75).