Equipment Report

Screen Machine Industries Inc. has been recognized by Ohio Lieutenant Gov. Lee Fisher with the 2007 Governor’s Excellence Award in housing and community development.

The award was presented July 25, 2007, at the annual meeting of the Ohio Conference of Community Development Annual Meeting held in Columbus, Ohio.

The award is presented to companies that demonstrate outstanding efforts in the area of housing and community development. Winners were selected this year by the Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Housing and Community Partnerships.

Screen Machine Industries Inc. and Licking County, Ohio, formed a partnership in 2004 when the county was awarded an Ohio Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Economic Development Program Grant to assist Screen Machine in expanding its Ohio operations. The company created new jobs and invested several million dollars in the construction of the 90,000-square-foot addition to its existing Etna, Ohio, facilities.

The company was also honored with the Roads & Bridges Contractors Choice award—winning the Gold Award in the Crushing Plants Division for its entry, the 4043T Impact Crusher. Winners were chosen by contractors around the country for their preferred job site equipment, based on products nominated by manufacturers.

The 4043T Impact Crusher is a heavy duty horizontal impact crusher that crushes rock, concrete and asphalt and works in tandem with the Screen Machine Spyder 516T portable tracked screening plant.

The Contractor’s Choice Awards presentation took place during the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Annual Meeting Oct. 11, 2007, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Screen Machine Industries Inc. has been producing crushing, screening and shredding plants for more than 40 years. More information is available at www.screenmachine.com.

Morbark Hosts Demo Days

The sound of trees and scrap wood being shredded and chipped echoed in Winn, Mich., on Sept. 20 and 21 as more than 200 owners and dealers of Morbark processing equipment gathered in that manufacturer’s home town.

The company, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2007, hosted its Demo Days event during a stretch of beautiful late summer weather, as invited guests, dealers and prospective dealers toured the Morbark factory and a nearby proving ground, where whole tree chippers, horizontal grinders and tub grinders were on display.

Among the stars of the show were three track-mounted horizontal grinders (or wood hogs) that worked their way through tree branches, trunks and stumps.

Two large tub grinders also handled large amounts of material, while a pair of chippers worked through whatever tree trunks and branches were fed their way.

Customers interested in Morbark’s talon debris shear were also able to see it work its way through thick tree stumps, and the company’s three-station multibagger was demonstrated by bagging wood chips.

During the two-day event, guests heard directly from Morbark President and CEO Lon Morey, son of Norval Morey, the company’s founder.

The family-owned company now employs some 600 people, most of whom work from the 1.6 million square foot complex in the small town of Winn. The entire complex has grown outward from the original garage where Norval Morey started his business in 1957.

Morey credited the Morbark workforce for the greatest contributions to the company’s success. "We have one of the best groups of people working at Morbark today that we’ve ever had," said Morey. "They’re helping us make good decisions," he commented, and praised them for their dedication to quality training and continuous improvement.

Of the company’s 1.6 million square feet under roof, some 1.2 million of it is factory space that is currently producing about 100 pieces of equipment to be shipped out each month.

Morbark’s sizable manufacturing operation consumes some 30 million pounds of steel each year, generating about 500,000 pounds of steel scrap annually.

Despite the size of the company now, Morbark Vice President of Sales John Foote remarked, "Our company is still run like one big family."

More information is available at www.morbark.com. 

Erin Systems, a business unit of Premier Tech Systems, has announced the addition of Doug Logan as recycling systems specialist.

Logan originally pioneered Erin’s C&D recycling system division in the late 1990s and then went to work heading up the operations side of one of the nation’s leading C&D recyclers in New York, which now has more than 10,000 hours of operation on its first Erin C&D recycling system, according to a news release from the company.

Logan will help the Erin Systems team focus on maximizing the client’s return on investment, which involves designing in system flexibility as markets evolve and selecting the right combination of equipment.

More information is available at Erin Systems’ Web site www.erinrecycling.com.

Vecoplan LLC, High Point, N.C., has announced that Mike Cox has joined the company as its Waste Division Midwest sales manager.

Cox is responsible for sales to the municipal, industrial and post-consumer waste markets. He brings 18 years of experience in capital equipment and industrial sales to his new position

"The rapid growth that we’ve experienced, especially in our Waste Division, has made it necessary for us to expand both our facilities and our personnel," Marty Kennedy, executive VP of Vecoplan LLC, says. "We are fortunate to have someone of Mike’s caliber join our team of dedicated professionals here at Vecoplan."

Vecoplan is a leading manufacturer of size-reduction technologies, including shredders, material handling machinery, separation equipment and complete waste reduction systems.

More information on Vecoplan is available online at www.VecoplanLLC.com.

Ingersoll Rand Unveils Web Site

Ingersoll Rand Utility Equipment, Davidson, N.C., has introduced a newly designed information Web site, irutilityequipment.com.

The site offers information on the company’s line of air compressors, concrete equipment, construction tools, generators, light compaction, lighting systems and Onboard Power Solutions.

The new Web site has been updated with current information on Ingersoll Rand utility equipment products in seven different product categories. Each category includes individual model listings and features and benefits for each model as well as specifications.

Product brochures can also be downloaded.

In addition, the site allows visitors to locate a dealer and contact Inersoll Rand utility equipment for more information. Aftermarket information is available, and an additional feature on the site presents an overview of the history of Ingersoll Rand portable power products since 1902.

More information is available at www.irutilityequipment.com.

Fintec Announces New Dealer

Fintec Crushing and Screening Ltd. has announced it has signed Performance Construction Equipment Inc. as its new dealer in the state of Washington.

Performance Construction Equipment will represent Fintec in the Pacific Northwest as a dealer and a customer, using Fintec’s equipment in its parent company Goodnight Construction Inc., which has been in the industry for more than 20 years. Goodnight Construction is a full-service demolition, land clearing and wood grinding company that recycles reusable materials from demolition and land clearing projects. Other services include the screening of topsoil and the crushing of rock to be used in road construction.

Performance Construction is located about 30 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. It will be handling the sales and leasing of the entire Fintec line, which includes 542 Mobile Screen, 570 Mobile Screen, 640 Mobile Screen, 1080 Mobile Cone Crusher and the 1107 Mobile Jaw Crusher.

More information is available online at www.fintec.com.