Category: 2013

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 LeRoy Hagenbuch, co-founder and president of the engineering firm Philippi-Hagenbuch, introduced the first commercially available tailgate, the Autogate, for off-highway haul trucks. Hagenbuch is credited with other inventions and refinements, as well, including specialized liner packages to mitigate the weight consumed by liners and on-board weigh systems commonly found…

Hall of Fame Inductee Class of 2013 Emil Deister, the founder of Deister Machine Co., served as the company’s president and general manager from 1912 until his death in 1961. Under Deister’s leadership, the company began manufacturing vibrating screens in 1926 for the separation of materials according to particle size. Seven years later, Deister introduced a…

  Nearly 70 years have passed since Arthur Taggart completed the “Handbook of Mineral Dressing,” and more than 85 have gone by since his “Handbook of Ore Dressing” was first published. But despite nearly an entire century passing between then and now, Taggart’s works remain essential text for almost every aspect of the aggregates industry.…

  Paul C. Mellott Jr. has been on what is now NSSGA’s executive committee for 23 years, and he served the National Stone Association as chairman in 1996. But when his tenure as chairman was up, a friend encouraged him to get involved in another endeavor to add value to the industry. That’s when Mellott,…

  The roots of McLanahan Corp., which celebrated its milestone 175th anniversary three years ago, trace back to founder James Craig McLanahan. But it is largely James’ son, Samuel Calvin McLanahan, who is credited with taking a company with an iron foundry and launching it onto the course for which it’s on today. “We honor…

  What are your options if you’re in the road construction business and in need of stone? Well, you can find a supplier. Or, if you’re Charles Luck Jr., his father and brother, you can buy a quarry. That’s exactly what Luck Jr. and his family did in 1923, when the three purchased their first…

  The top crushed stone-producing company in the United States, Vulcan Materials Co., would not be the mega-producer it is today without the vision of Charles W. Ireland, who developed a plan after World War II to expand his family company, Birmingham Slag. In the early 1950s, Ireland saw an opportunity for Birmingham Slag to…

  Some people see failure when they identify a problem. Others see an opportunity to provide a solution. LeRoy Hagenbuch, co-founder, president and chief engineer at Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc., is the kind of person who sees problems as opportunities. Whether he’s inventing or building off-highway truck attachments or designing and developing heavy equipment solutions, Hagenbuch applies…