Superior Industries

Superior Industries, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	1972
Founder	Neil Schmidgall
Headquarters	Morris, Minnesota, USA
Key people	Micah Zeltwanger, CEO Jarrod Felton, VP Paul Schmidgall, VP Tom Zosel, CFO
Products	Dry bulk handling processing and handling equipment, conveyor components, ship/barge loaders, fuel tanks, fuel trailers and trucks, petroleum equipment, precast concrete
Number of employees	1,600
Website	Superior-Ind.com

Superior Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturing company headquartered in Morris, Minnesota. The company's multiple divisions engineer, manufacture, service and sell dry bulk processing and handling equipment, fuel delivery and storage equipment and precast concrete products.

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 one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. While more than half of its 1,600 person workforce is employed at one of three 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.

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. Products include crushing, screening, washing, feeding and conveying equipment. Equipment manufacturing locations include the home plant in Morris, Minnesota and sattallyte plants in Columbus, Nebraska; Prescott Valley, Arizona; Loganville, Georgia; Pekin, Illinois; Calgary, Canada; and Mirimachi, 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 and Loganville.

On May 1, 2008, Superior announced its acquisition of Westmor Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of petroleum and liquid-handling equipment. Westmor's corporate headquarters are located in Morris, Minnesota, the same Minnesota community as Superior's corporate offices. Since the acquisition, additional manufacturing and service locations have been added in Columbus, Minnesota, Shawnee, Kansas and Portage, Wisconsin.