Equipment Report

American Baler Tour Guide

American Baler Co., Bellevue, Ohio, has released a new interactive CD entitled "The Great American Tour." The CD provides a convenient way to view American Baler’s line of balers and observe actual baling operations among a diverse group of American Baler customers.

The CD features video tours of baling operations for a variety of materials within warehousing and distribution, corrugated and boxboard, printing and converting and document destruction industries. The videos demonstrate baler features such as color touchscreen controls, slick material tensioning, tamper-proof safety switches, fast cycle times, variable bale lengths, and more.

A video of American Baler’s auto-tier is also included, demonstrating the tier’s speed, ease of maintenance, and tying capabilities.

"The Great American Tour" CD is free to all qualified inquiries made by phone at (800) 843-7512 or through the company’s Web site: www.americanbaler.com.

Vecoplan Adds Wolfe to Staff

Vecoplan LLC, High Point, N.C., has named Jeff Wolfe as a regional manager in its Waste Industries Division.

Wolfe brings over 21 years of industrial distribution experience to his new position, having spent 17 years as a power transmissions systems sales engineer working directly with customers and another four years managing multiple field sales operations. "Together these two combine to give Jeff the technical expertise and people perspective you need to excel in this position," says Len Beusse, Vecoplan LLC’s chief operating officer. "With the demand for our shredders in the waste and recycling industries growing so rapidly, we have to expand in order to maintain the level of support we deliver with our systems. We’re glad to have someone of Jeff’s caliber to fill this need."

Marathon Launches NexGen Equipment Line

Marathon Equipment Co. Vernon, Ala., has begun to market its NexGen (short for "next generation") baling systems, and has made a CD-ROM about the new product line available to current and prospective customers.

The company is touting its NexGen line as offering top-of-the-line horizontal balers, including a new line of PC Series auto-tie balers.

More information on the new product line can be found at www.NexGenbalers.com.  

March 2004
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