Westech Vac Systems names Ben Schmitt general manager
Westech Vac Systems announced Ben Schmitt as its new general manager. Schmitt will be responsible for organizational leadership and day-to-day management of Westech Vac Systems' Nisku, Alberta, location, as well as business development, recruiting, and overall growth. Prior to joining Westech Vac Systems, he was with Vactor as the company’s excavation and industrial vacuum product manager.
Comforts of Home Services moves to new, larger facility
The owners of Comforts of Home Services, Brad and Cara Martin, have announced a move into a new, larger manufacturing facility in Aurora, Illinois. The building provides three times the production floor space of the prior building and additional room to bring on new employees. “This new facility gives us the space needed to support the increase in business the restroom trailer industry is experiencing, support opportunities for continued growth, and to develop new innovative products and features — a core value I built this business on,” Brad Martin says. The family-owned business has three generations of the Martin family involved in day-to-day operations.
Satellite Industries celebrates 60th anniversary
Sixty years have passed since Satellite Industries started with a small inventory of wooden restrooms in Minneapolis and the hope that portable sanitation would be a benefit to many others. Today the company supplies operators in more than 130 countries with Satellite products to create safe, sanitary conditions in their communities.
The company began when Al Hilde left the Army in 1958 with a dream to create a business to provide private, sanitary restroom facilities in places where permanent bathrooms were not available. By the late 1960s, Satellite was a well-established portable sanitation business in Minneapolis and beyond. In 1972, with the creation of the Tufway, a polyethylene portable restroom, sales grew quickly. By 1988, Hilde made the decision to focus solely on being a supplier of restrooms, trucks and deodorizers.
At February’s Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show, Satellite celebrated 60 years by giving away 60 gifts to operators as a thank-you for their continued business. Two commemorative T-shirts were also created, with images of older trucks and restrooms. The proceeds of the T-shirt sales were donated to Karibu Loo, a portable restroom business in Kenya run by children and young adults to help them pay for schooling.
Infiltrator Water Technologies acquires Delta Environmental assets from Pentair
Infiltrator Water Technologies announced the purchase of Delta Environmental’s assets from Pentair Flow Technologies. Infiltrator Water Technologies has acquired the technologies, approvals, trademarks and physical assets to produce the Delta Whitewater Series and Delta Fabricated Treatment Plants from Pentair.
Wastequip closes acquisition by H.I.G. Capital
Wastequip announced the close of its acquisition by an affiliate of H.I.G Capital, a global private equity investment firm. As part of the deal, Wastequip has appointed Andreas Y. Gruson as chairman of its board of directors. “Wastequip will benefit immensely from having a person of Andreas’ caliber to help shape the vision of our company,” says Marty Bryant, Wastequip CEO. “With him as our chairman of the board, I believe we are well-positioned to execute on strategies to drive even greater sales and earnings through both organic growth and acquisitions.”
