Elphers
GARNER, Iowa (July 15, 2010) – Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc. (IMT), an Oshkosh Corporation company (NYSE:OSK), is pleased to announce that Elpers Truck Equipment, an IMT Diamond Authority Distributor based in Evansville, Ind., has opened a new facility to serve IMT customers throughout sections of three Midwestern states. The new facility will serve customers throughout a 150-mile radius spanning from southern Indiana and southern Illinois into western Kentucky.
“Our new facility will improve the efficiency of our operations and allow us to continue offering first-rate service to our customers for many more years to come,” said Jim Elpers, co-owner of Elpers Truck Equipment. “The combination of a new facility and experienced staff will allow us to continue providing the finest-quality trucks, parts and service in the tri-state area.”
Elpers Truck Equipment will celebrate the grand opening of its new facility during an open house on Thursday, July 15, 2010.
With the move to the new facility, Elpers Truck Equipment can offer more in-stock product offerings to customers, improve access and parking for larger trucks and significantly increase the size of its shop space. The new facility, which is located at 8136 Baumgart Road in Evansville, Ind., offers 16,000 square feet of available space — more than double the size of the company’s old facility.
Elpers Truck Equipment is a diversified truck-equipment supplier that distributes service vehicles and material handling systems for the construction, roofing, material handling, railroad, tire, mining and utility markets.
The company offers a complete range of bodies, beds, trailers and accessories for everything from light trucks to semi-trailer trucks, and can provide any platform, stake body, van shelving, snowplow, van body, grain body, trailer or lift gate to specification. Elpers Truck Equipment specializes in the following IMT products: articulating cranes, field service vehicles, telescopic cranes, specialty cranes, mobile lubrication vehicles and compressed air systems. In addition, the dealership provides IMT parts, service and after-sales support.
"IMT has one of the strongest distribution networks in the industry, and with their new facility Elpers Truck Equipment further demonstrates its commitment to servicing our customers,” said Jim Hasty, vice president of sales for IMT. “This is an exciting new opportunity for Elpers Truck Equipment, and we are extremely honored to be a part of the new facility opening.”
IMT takes pleasure in working with distributors, like Elpers Truck Equipment, which offer customers comprehensive solutions and extraordinary service. For more information on Elpers Truck Equipment, visit www.elperstruck.com or call 877-244-4596.
About IMT
Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc., an
Oshkosh Corporation [NYSE: OSK] company, began in 1961 as a business
providing new tread designs for recapping tires. The company has grown
to become the leading manufacturer and supplier of service vehicles,
cranes, hydraulic loaders and air compressors for tire, mining,
construction, material handling and utility markets around the world.
For more information, visit www.imt.com.
About Oshkosh Corporation
Oshkosh
Corporation is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad
range of specialty access equipment, commercial, fire & emergency
and military vehicles and vehicle bodies. Oshkosh Corp. manufactures,
distributes and services products under the brands of Oshkosh®, JLG®,
Pierce®, McNeilus®, Medtec®, Jerr-Dan®, Oshkosh Specialty Vehicles,
Frontline™, SMIT™, CON-E-CO®, London® and IMT®. Oshkosh products are
valued worldwide in businesses where high quality, superior performance,
rugged reliability and long-term value are paramount. For more
information, log on to www.oshkoshcorporation.com.
®,
™ All brand names referred to in this news release are trademarks of
Oshkosh Corporation or its subsidiary companies.
Forward-Looking Statements
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press release contains statements that the Company believes to be
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than
statements of historical fact, including, without limitation, statements
regarding the Company’s future financial position, business strategy,
targets, projected sales, costs, earnings, capital expenditures, debt
levels and cash flows, and plans and objectives of management for future
operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this press
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intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to
risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, some of which are
beyond the Company’s control, which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. These factors include risks related to sustaining the
required rate of production for the M-ATV contract and the amount, if
any, of additional orders for M-ATVs that the Company may receive; the
cyclical nature of the Company’s access equipment, commercial and fire
& emergency markets, especially during a global recession and tight
credit markets; the duration of the global recession, which could lead
to additional impairment charges related to many of the Company’s
intangible assets; the expected level and timing of U.S. Department of
Defense procurement of products and services and funding thereof, risks
related to reductions in government expenditures, the potential for the
government to competitively bid the Company’s Army and Marine contracts
and the uncertainty of government contracts generally; the consequences
of financial leverage associated with the JLG acquisition, which could
limit the Company’s ability to pursue various opportunities; risks
related to the collectability of receivables during a recession,
particularly for those businesses with exposure to construction markets;
risks related to production delays as a result of the economy’s impact
on the Company’s suppliers; the potential for commodity costs to rise
sharply, including in a future economic recovery; risks associated with
international operations and sales, including foreign currency
fluctuations; and the potential for increased costs relating to
compliance with changes in laws and regulations. Additional information
concerning these and other factors is contained in the Company’s filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company
assumes no obligation, and disclaims any obligation, to update
information contained in this press release. Investors should be aware
that the Company may not update such information until the Company’s
next quarterly earnings conference call, if at all.
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