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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Manufacturing |
Founded | 1972 |
Founder | Neil Schmidgall |
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Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 1,600 |
Subsidiaries | Westmor Industries |
Website | superior-Ind.com |
Superior Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturing company headquartered in Morris, Minnesota. The company engineers, manufactures, sells and supports dry bulk processing and handling equipment and components. In 2008, Superior acquired Westmor Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of energy storage, transportation and dispensing equipment also headquartered in Morris. [1]
Superior traces its roots back to 1917 when Henry Schmidgall began manufacturing concrete products in Hancock, Minnesota. Later, Henry's grandson, Neil Schmidgall, formed Superior Industries, which repaired and manufactured the processing and handling equipment in the quarries that supplied Hancock Concrete.
Today, Superior Industries is the largest employer in Stevens County, Minnesota, and in 2008 was listed among the fastest growing private companies in the United States. [2] While more than half of its 1,600 person workforce is employed at one of two campuses in Stevens County, Minnesota, the other half are spread throughout 25 other manufacturing, engineering or repair center facilities in the United States, Canada and Brazil.
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Superior manufactures portable and stationary processing and handling equipment for dry bulk material industries including construction aggregates, mining, concrete, asphalt and recycle industries. The company markets its equipment globally through a network of dealers or direct sales in regions not served by a dealer. [7] Products include crushing, screening, washing, feeding and conveying equipment. Equipment manufacturing locations include the home plant in Morris, Minnesota and satellite plants in Columbus, Nebraska; Prescott Valley, Arizona; Loganville, Georgia; and Miramichi, New Brunswick.
Like its equipment, Superior's conveying components serve a variety of industries like construction aggregates and mining. Components are sold through a large, global distribution network. Outside of distributor territories, the company sells its product direct to customers. Products include idlers, pulleys, belt cleaners and conveyor related accessories. Conveyor components are manufactured in Morris, Prescott Valley, Loganville and Brazil.
On May 1, 2008, Superior announced its acquisition of Westmor Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of petroleum and liquid-handling equipment. [8] Westmor's corporate headquarters are located in Morris, Minnesota, the same community as Superior's headquarters. Since the acquisition, additional manufacturing and service locations have been added in Baltimore, Brewer, ME, Bridgeville, DE, Colmar, PA, Hugo, MN, Portage, WI and Shawnee, KS.
Westmor manufactures and distributes energy storage, transportation, and dispensing equipment in the following markets: Terminals & Plants, Transport, Storage, Fuel Delivery, Fleets, C-Stores and Aviation.
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. [9] In the spring of 2008, The Private Company Index listed Superior one of ten "Top Growth Companies" in the U.S. [10]
The company reports an annual growth rate of more than 15% and currently employs more than 1,600 people.[ citation needed ]
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