Hall of Fame Inductee
Class of 2015
Neil Schmidgall
Neil Schmidgall, whose career began as a Minnesota sand-and-gravel producer, founded Superior Industries in 1972. As a man who started as an aggregate producer, Schmidgall realized equipment mobility was necessary to meet the needs of an industry that required action from site to site. He applied his engineering skills to build greater portability into his own washing, screening and conveying equipment. Schmidgall’s early innovations included the first washing and dry screening plant mounted on a single chassis, as well as the first jig-mounted portable plant for the removal of deleterious materials. The addition of a conveyor idler line was a crowning achievement of his, as well.