Equipment Report

SHRED-TECH PLANS SERVICE CENTERS

Shred-Tech Inc., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, will be opening several service centers to assist its customers with maintenance and service on their mobile shredding vehicles.

Service centers planned include facilities in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orlando, Charlotte, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. Additionally, the company expects to have a facility opened in Chicago early in 2005.

According to Shred-Tech, the regional service centers will capitalize on anticipated demand for both scheduled and unscheduled repairs of mobile vehicles.

Mark McKenna of Shred-Tech says that the opening of the service centers will increase the company’s exposure to the service side of the business.

AMERICAN BALER ADDS GIBSON

Randy Gibson has been hired as the new Southeast Regional Manager at American Baler Co., Bellevue, Ohio.

American Baler engineers and manufactures a full line of horizontal, vertical, wide mouth, single-ram and two-ram balers.

From his sales office in Waycross, Ga., Gibson will manage all phases of sales and field customer service for dealers and customers in the company’s 12-state southeast region.

Gibson has 13 years of experience in the industrial baler industry.

DENVER HOME TO VECOPLAN VEHICLE

Vecoplan LLC, High Point, N.C., celebrated the first anniversary of its Mobile Shredding Technologies Division with a company-wide barbecue that was highlighted by the dedication of its latest product, The Vecoplan Mobile Document and Product Destruction Vehicle.

The center of attention at the barbecue was one of two trucks slated for delivery to Tri-R Services of Denver. The vehicle, with Tri-R’s permission, was displayed at the 2004 NAID Conference in San Diego in May. Designed and built in Vecoplan’s High Point facility, the truck carries an RG 32XL single-shaft rotary shredder.