AED Elects First Female Chair

Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) elected Diane Benck to serve as 2018 chairwoman at their annual Summit held in Las Vegas. Benck, vice president of general operations at West Side Tractor Sales in Naperville, Ill., becomes the first woman to lead AED. She replaces outgoing Chairman Wes Stowers, president of Stowers Machinery in Knoxville, Tenn. “I am honored my colleagues in…

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Superior Builds Longest Road-Portable Telescoping Conveyor

Superior Industries Inc. has manufactured the first-ever 210-ft. (64m) road-portable telescoping radial stacking conveyor. The TeleStacker Conveyor, designed and built for a frac sand operation in Texas, is the longest one of its kind ever built.  The conveyor has a stockpiling capacity of 400,000 U.S. tons (363,000 Mt), 30 percent more than any other telescoping conveyor on the market. According to…

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