February 2011

  • H&E Equipment Services New Louisiana Distributor for Wirtgen America

    H&E Equipment Services, Inc., headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., has been named the authorized distributor for Wirtgen America Inc., Hamm Compaction Division, and Vögele America, Inc. products in Louisiana. There, H&E has full service facilities in Baton Rouge, Kenner, Alexandria, Sulphur, Bossier City, Gonzales and Broussard.

    “We are extremely pleased to represent the Wirtgen product line in Louisiana and hope to grow our Wirtgen territory,” said Bobby Slay, vice president of earthmoving sales for H&E. “Wirtgen is one of the premier manufacturers of road building equipment and it has earned an outstanding reputation for reliability. Their machinery is well-balanced and durable. This is a product that we can take into the future with great confidence in its quality and customer satisfaction.”

    H&E Equipment Services will provide full service coverage for the Wirtgen products, offering comprehensive sales, rental, parts, service and training.

    Established in 1961, H&E Equipment Services is celebrating its golden anniversary in 2011. The company is one of the largest integrated equipment services companies in the United States, with 67 full-service facilities throughout the Gulf Coast, southeast, mid-Atlantic, West Coast, intermountain and southwest regions of the United States.

    The company is focused on heavy construction and industrial equipment and rents, sells and provides parts and service support for four core categories of specialized equipment: high-lift or aerial platform equipment, cranes, earthmoving equipment and industrial lift trucks.

    H&E Equipment Services is headquartered in Baton Rouge. It’s the largest Grove and Manitowoc Crane dealer in the U.S., and one of the largest Komatsu earthmoving dealerships.

    Visit H&E Equipment Services online at www.HE-equipment.com .

    For further information, please contact:

    Wirtgen America, Inc.
    Bruce Monical
    6030 Dana Way
    Antioch, TN 37013

    Phone: 615-501-0600
    Fax: 615-501-0691
    email: bmonical@wirtgenamerica.com

    BACKGROUNDER


    Wirtgen America, Inc., Nashville, is the North American arm of the Wirtgen Group, the single-source marketer of the world's most technologically advanced lines of asphalt reclaiming/recycling, concrete slipform paver, and surface mining equipment from Wirtgen, asphalt and soil compactors from Hamm Compaction Division, asphalt pavers from Vögele America Inc., and construction materials processing equipment from Kleemann.

    In late 2004 Reinhard Wirtgen, founder of Wirtgen Group, was honored as one of the "Top 100 Private Sector Transportation Design & Construction Professionals of the 20th Century" by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

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