Directory
Louisville Maker & Manufacturer Directory
51 companies and places in 7 categories that make physical things in the Louisville area. Each entry links to the company and to a source.
This directory covers the physical side of Louisville’s economy: companies that distill, cook, cast, mold, machine, assemble, throw, weld and print. Software companies are deliberately left out; you’ll find those at Startup Louisville. Each category page explains how that part of the local economy works, then lists the companies in it.
Entries are researched from company websites and public reporting, and each one links to its source. If a listing is wrong or a company is missing, let us know.
Distilleries, rickhouses and the cooperages, still makers and bottlers around them.
- Angel's Envy Distillery · Downtown (East Main St)
- Copper & Kings · Butchertown
- Evan Williams Bourbon Experience · Downtown (Whiskey Row)
- Heaven Hill Bernheim Distillery · West Louisville
- Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. · Downtown (Whiskey Row)
- Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery · Downtown (Whiskey Row)
- Michter's Shively Distillery · Shively
- Old Forester Distilling Co. · Downtown (Whiskey Row)
- Rabbit Hole Distillery · NuLu
- Stitzel-Weller Distillery · Shively
- Vendome Copper & Brass Works · Louisville
Packaged foods, sauces, coffee, breweries and the co-packers that scale them.
- Against the Grain Brewery · Portland
- Algood Food Company · Southwest Louisville
- Bourbon Barrel Foods · Butchertown
- Falls City Beer · Phoenix Hill
- Heine Brothers' Coffee · Portland
- Mile Wide Beer Co. · Barret Avenue
- Muth's Candies · NuLu (East Market St)
- Quills Coffee · Louisville / New Albany, IN
- Sunergos Coffee · Beechmont
- The Comfy Cow · Jeffersontown
Things you can buy and hold: bats, appliances, home goods, apparel and gear.
- Brinly-Hardy Company · Jeffersonville, IN
- GE Appliances (Appliance Park) · Appliance Park
- Hillerich & Bradsby Co. (Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory) · Downtown (West Main St)
- Omega National Products · Louisville
- Rev-A-Shelf · Jeffersontown
- Zoeller Pump Company · Southwest Louisville (Cane Run Rd)
Vehicle assembly, chemicals, metal fabrication, plastics and precision parts.
- Clariant · Louisville
- Dant Clayton · Louisville (Bernheim Ln)
- Dow Louisville Site · Rubbertown
- Ford Kentucky Truck Plant · Louisville (Chamberlain Ln)
- Ford Louisville Assembly Plant · Louisville (Fern Valley Rd)
- Kentucky Trailer · Riverport
- Zeon Chemicals L.P. · Rubbertown
Physical-product startups: devices, automation, sensors and robotics.
- CRG Automation · Louisville
- Lantech · East Louisville (Bluegrass Pkwy)
- Samtec · New Albany, IN
- UofL Louisville Automation & Robotics Research Institute (LARRI) · University of Louisville
Pottery, woodworking, leather, glass and small-batch studios.
- Clayton & Crume · Butchertown (workshop) / NuLu (flagship)
- Flame Run Glass Studio & Gallery · Downtown (West Market St)
- Hadley Pottery · Butchertown (Story Ave)
- Hyland Glass · Butchertown (E Washington St)
- Stoneware & Co. (formerly Louisville Stoneware) · Highlands (Brent St)
Where an idea becomes a part: makerspaces, machine shops and contract manufacturers.
- C&S Machine & Manufacturing · Louisville
- FirstBuild · University of Louisville campus
- Kelly Fabricators · Louisville (Gilmore Industrial Blvd)
- Louisville Free Public Library Makerspace · Louisville (library branches)
- LVL1 Hackerspace · Butchertown (The Pointe)
- UofL Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science & Technology (AMIST) · University of Louisville
- Whelan Machine & Tool · Louisville
- Winston Industries (Winston Manufacturing) · Louisville