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Heil Environmental Sells its Truck Equipment Business
The Heil Truck Equipment Group manufactures and mounts a complete line of dump bodies, snow/ice bodies and hoists at its plant in Tishomingo, Mississipi. Products include the Yardbird, Sidewinder and HPT dump bodies featuring Heil's patented DuraClass® design. Heil South is a company-owned truck equipment distributorship in Austell, Georgia, selling and servicing dump bodies, hoists, roll-offs and knuckleboom loaders. Michael Jobe, Heil president and CEO states, "Heil has a long, proud history in the truck equipment business and our employees have done a great job of serving our customers. After careful study, the Heil management team determined that we could best serve all of our customers by selling our truck equipment division and associated sales branch to a company that is exclusively focused on that market and its customers. This move allows us to likewise concentrate solely on the refuse customers that are the core of our business. Moving forward, all of our efforts will be centered on supplying haulers worldwide with the most innovative refuse collection and recycling vehicles, replacement parts and cart lifters that offer the overall lowest total cost of ownership." The sale includes Heil's 18 950 m2 manufacturing facility in Tishomingo, the Heil South sales and service facility outside of Atlanta, and the use of certain intellectual property. The Heil Truck Equipment Group and Heil South are now part of Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Inc. (TBEI). Kirtland formed TBEI in 2005 by combining three major truck equipment companies: Crysteel Manufacturing, Ox Bodies, Rugby Manufacturing, adding Hardee Equipment Co. in 2006. TBEI's corporate headquarters is in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The changeover will be virtually invisible to customers. TBEI has indicated that it will keep the manufacturing facility in Tishomingo open with its 140-person workforce intact. Under the sales agreement, all existing orders will be filled, current vehicles will be supported and warranties now in effect will be honored. The truck equipment distributor network and sales force is expected to remain unchanged. Heil South will be renamed TBEI Atlanta. TBEI has expressed plans to retain the distributorship's 16 employees and continue to offer truck equipment products and services. The refuse collection vehicle sales force and other aspects for supporting customers of the refuse business will be moved from the TBEI Atlanta facility, and Heil intends to further increase its focus and efforts to continue growing its customer base in the Georgia refuse markets. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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Heil Environmental has sold its truck equipment business, consisting
of the Heil Truck Equipment Group and Heil South distributorship, to Truck
Bodies and Equipment International, Inc. a portfolio company of Kirtland
Capital Partners, effective August 30. The sale enables Heil to concentrate
all of its resources on continuing to build its core refuse business. Based
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Heil manufactures a full line of refuse collection
and recycling vehicles at its flagship manufacturing facility in Fort Payne,
Alabama. Parts Central, a Heil company, offers replacement parts for most
refuse and recycling vehicle brands. Heil subsidiary Bayne Premium Lift
Systems produces hydraulic refuse cart lifters in Greenville, South Carolina.
Heil Europe manufactures refuse collection vehicles and replacement parts
for the European market in Hillend, Scotland.
