"BOMAG Day" Open House
BOMAG Americas provided dozens of key distributors and customers a tour of the company's new North American headquarters in Ridgeway, S.C. Attendees received a first-look at the company's new offices, training center, parts distribution center and manufacturing area.
“Impressive,” comments Dan Soley, executive vice president of sales & marketing for BOMAG distributor Miller Bradford & Risberg, Inc. “The facility is world-class, and the staff BOMAG Americas has assembled and charged with responding to customers’ and distributors’ needs is second to none.”
BOMAG Americas completed the move from its previous plant location in Kewanee, Ill., in 2015, and, more recently, transferred Cedarapids paver and CMI reclaimer-stabilizer manufacturing from Oklahoma City, Okla., to the Ridgeway facility. The inaugural BOMAG Day event was held as a way to show key customers and distributors the company’s significant investment in the new facility and in its parts support, training and manufacturing capabilities in South Carolina.
“We are very appreciative of the Kewanee community and workers at our Kewanee facility who helped to build BOMAG Americas into what it is today, but our product line investment and strategic support and growth plans required the change to a new facility,” says Greg Shockley, national sales manager for BOMAG Americas. “From training to parts warehousing and distribution to manufacturing, our first-class U.S. facility in Ridgeway brings everything together in one location, so we can more deeply support our customers.”
Event attendees were welcomed by John Hood, director of heavy equipment sales for BOMAG Americas, and they were given an overview of BOMAG and the Fayat Group, BOMAG’s parent company.
In the afternoon, nearly 40 machines from BOMAG’s extensive line up of light and heavy compaction, asphalt paving, milling, and soil stabilizer/asphalt recycler equipment were exhibited. BOMAG application specialists, engineers, sales personnel and product managers were on hand to answer any technical questions attendees had about the equipment and applications.
“Customers left BOMAG that day with a greater knowledge of just how impressive the BOMAG product offering is,” says Doug Neff, sales and asphalt product manager for BOMAG distributor, Southeastern Equipment. “Especially for the asphalt side, BOMAG has put it all together for the road building contractor – mills, reclaimer/stabilizers, pavers, material transfer vehicles and compactors. BOMAG now offers a true full line of asphalt equipment and no other manufacturer can make that claim.”
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