| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder(s) | Neil Schmidgall |
| Headquarters | Morris, Minnesota, USA |
| Key people | Micah Zeltwanger, CEO Bob Domnick, VP Paul Schmidgall, VP Tom Zosel, CFO |
| Products | Conveying equipment, conveyor components, fuel tanks, fuel trucks, fuel trailers, petroleum equipment, precast concrete |
| Employees | 950 |
| Website | (Corporate Division) www.superior-ind.com (Westmor Division) www.westmor-ind.com (Hancock Division) www.hancockconcrete.com |
Superior Industries is an American manufacturing company. The company's seven divisions design, manufacture, market and sell conveying equipment, conveyor components, fuel tanks, fuel trucks, fuel trailers, petroleum equipment and precast concrete products and related services.
The company traces its origins back to 1917 when Henry Schmidgall began manufacturing concrete products in Hancock, Minnesota.
Starting in 2008, Superior started acquiring several new companies. During this time, the company has grown its product and service divisions from two to seven and its employees from 400 to 950. The acquisitions have helped Superior gain a reputation as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States.
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Superior manufactures portable and stationary conveying equipment used in construction aggregates, mining, concrete, asphalt and recycle industries. The company markets its equipment globally, but in North America products are sold through a network of dealers[1]. Products include telescopic conveyors, radial stacking conveyors, portable truck dumps, overland conveyors and stationary systems.[2] Equipment is manufactured in Morris and Prescott Valley.
Like its equipment, Superior's conveying components serve a variety of industries like construction aggregates and mining. Components are sold through a large distribution channel from Canada to the U.S., through Mexico and into Central America and South America.[1] Outside of those territories, the company sells its product direct to customers. Products include idlers, pulleys, belt cleaners, impact beds and sensors. Conveyor components are manufactured in Morris and Prescott Valley.
In late 2008, Superior announced it acquired Fesco Systems of Norcross, Georgia. The company is known throughout the southeastern United States for its work engineering and constructing conveyor systems for bulk material handling and processing industries.
On May 1, 2008, Superior announced its acquisition of Westmor Industries, a manufacturer of petroleum and liquid-handling equipment.[3] Westmor's corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities are located in Morris, Minnesota, the same Minnesota community as Superior's corporate offices. The company was founded in 1972 and manufactures cargo tanks, bulk tanks and other equipment for America's propane, CO2 and biofeuls industries.
The acquisition of Brewer, Maine-based Trans-Tech Industries was announced on September 30, 2011. Like Westmor, Trans-Tech manufactures cargo storage tanks, but this division focuses on the petroleum and wood pellet delivery industries. The aluminum tank builder was founded in 1984.
On December 10, 2010, Superior announced it acquired Hancock, Minnesota based Hancock Concrete Products. Founded in 1917, the company manufactures pre-cast concrete pipe, culverts, boxes, manholes and arches. [4]
Superior's past is closely connected to Hancock Concrete. Before establishing itself in 1972, Superior’s founder and the grandson of Hancock's founder, Neil Schmidgall, began manufacturing custom built conveyors, gravel washing plants, crushing plants for Schmidgall Sand and Gravel, which supplied aggregates for Hancock.
In 2007 and again in 2008, Superior was named to Inc. magazine's first ever list of 5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States.[5] In the spring of 2008, The Private Company Index listed Superior one of ten "Top Growth Companies" in the U.S.[6]
The company reports an annual growth rate of more than 15% and currently employs more than 950 people.