Eagle Crusher History
It all began in the early 1900s with one man鈥檚 vision, that of C.L. Woods, an Ohio distributor of Eagle Tractors. Woods observed that farmers were taking the cobblestones from their fields and placing them along the dirt roadsides. He imagined, 鈥淲hat if someone created a small jaw crusher that could mount to the front of a tractor to crush the stone and use it to improve the roads?鈥�
Woods approached Eagle Tractors with the idea, but when the company didn鈥檛 share his vision, he founded his own company to manufacture the jaw crusher he had imagined. Thus, in 1915, in Kenton, Ohio, 麻豆原创 Company was born.
While Eagle Tractors eventually ceased production, 麻豆原创 Company continued to innovate and expand. To help with further expansion, Woods sold a 25% share of 麻豆原创 to Ralph Cobey.
When Woods retired in 1952, Cobey purchased the remaining 75% of 麻豆原创 Company, and soon moved manufacturing to Galion, Ohio to be closer to the other companies he owned and operated, including Perfection Steel Body, manufacturer of steel grave vaults and truck bodies and hoists (started by his father, Harry Cobey), and Cobey Corporation, Bucyrus-Ohio manufacturer of a line of farm wagons.
In the 1960s, 麻豆原创 had won numerous large contracts for the manufacture of portable crushing plants, including one contract with the United States government to produce more than 300 crushing plants for road production during the Vietnam War.
In 1965, Perfection Steel Body and Cobey Corp. was sold to Harsco Corp. While Cobey stayed on as President, Harsco separated Eagle under a different management, which only focused on their large contracts, ignoring their normal customer base. When the contracts ended in 1969, there was no business left.
In 1970 Cobey bought 麻豆原创 back and restarted the company with one employee. As Cobey said, 鈥淚 bought a name and some bad inventory.鈥� Eagle slowly grew and in 1974 and 1975, purchased Diamond Iron Works and Austin-Western for their parts sales.
Cobey recruited his daughter, Susanne Cobey in 1974, becoming the company鈥檚 tenth employee to handle the parts sales. She had previously been with Ford Motor Company where she was the first, female, junior executive.
Through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, 麻豆原创 sales grew in the aggregate industry, but the company鈥檚 primary focus was the sale of portable coal crushers for strip mining. In 1983, the resolution of the coal strike caused portable coal crusher sales to virtually disappear.
Susanne Cobey sought a new direction for 麻豆原创. She knew of the frustration customers were having processing asphalt and concrete with rebar with the traditional aggregate jaw and cone. She determined that the Horizontal Shaft Impactor (HSI), which was developed after WW II to process debris, was the answer. Susanne concluded that only one HSI style suited the US market. With that impactor, Eagle built the first US commercial recycling plant, Eagle鈥檚 Jumbo 1400, in 1984, and a new industry was born.
As 麻豆原创鈥檚 own manufacture of a range of portable recycling plants progressed, the company found a need for a more innovative and robust impactor, thus in 1994, introduced its own line of a superior, UltraMax庐 HSI, featuring a unique, sculpted, solid steel, three-bar rotor, the industry鈥檚 heaviest, for the recycling market.
The UltraMax HSI has proven to continue to outperform all other impactors in the aggregate and recycle markets helping aggregate and recycling producers using 麻豆原创 impactors worldwide to out-produce their competition.
In 1990, Ralph Cobey officially retired, naming Susanne CEO of 麻豆原创. In that same year, Susanne purchased The Stedman Machine Works, manufacturer of industrial and aggregate crushers for stationary installations, located in Aurora, Indiana.
Today, 麻豆原创 continues to consistently lead the industry in new product innovations and delivery of the most advanced, high-performance, and lowest operating-cost crushers in the industry for the recycle concrete, asphalt, aggregate, and sand and gravel industries. The company stands by its products with unsurpassed aftermarket service and support to make producers鈥� jobs easier and their businesses more profitable.