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Eagle Crusher Company, Inc. is an American manufacturing company headquartered in Galion, Ohio with a manufacturing facility in Bucyrus, Ohio that engineers, manufactures, and sells rock crusher and screening equipment, primarily portable plants, to customers worldwide.

Eagle Crusher’s legacy began with C.L. Woods who founded the company in 1915 to manufacture tractors mounted with jaw crushers for processing and recycling cobblestone as road material. Eagle Crusher was purchased by stakeholder and industrialist Ralph Cobey in 1952 and remains a family-owned company to this day.

Since its inception over 100 years ago, Eagle Crusher has evolved as a world leader in the manufacturing and innovation of portable crusher plants. Today, Eagle Crusher continues to manufacture a complete line of horizontal-shaft impactors (HSI), jaw crushers, portable crushing and screening plants, and conveyors for the concrete and asphalt recycling and aggregate markets.

1915–1952: Founding
In the early 1900s, Eagle Crusher's founder, C.L. Woods, served as a distributor of Eagle Tractors in Ohio. A common practice at this time was to take cobblestones tilled from farm fields and set them along the side of local dirt roads. Woods was inspired to engineer a tractor mounted with a small jaw crusher on its front that could crush the stone and reuse it as road material. When his proposal was declined, he set out on his own and founded Eagle Crusher in Kenton, Ohio to bring his vision to life.

Over the years, Woods continued to innovate his crusher patent and, to aid in the growth of his company, eventually sold 25 percent of Eagle Crusher to industrialist Ralph Cobey. When Woods retired in 1952, Cobey purchased the remaining 75 percent of the company, and operations were moved to Galion, Ohio, Cobey's hometown.

1952–1990: New directions
In the 1960s, Eagle Crusher saw increasing success as the company won numerous contracts for portable jaw crusher plants, including a sizeable order by the U.S. Military for hundreds of units during the Vietnam War. During this period, all of the Cobey family enterprises, including Eagle Crusher, were sold to Harsco Corporation. Dissatisfied with the company's success under Harsco, Ralph Cobey purchased Eagle Crusher back in 1970 and began anew with just two employees.

From then on, Eagle Crusher grew steadily under Cobey's revitalized vision and leadership. In 1974, Susanne Cobey, Ralph Cobey's daughter, became Eagle Crusher's 10th employee, and with her contributions, the company continued to see positive development. During the 1970s and 1980s, Eagle Crusher acquired Austin-Western Crushers and Diamond Iron Works crushers with a focus on aggregate and coal crushers until a coal strike in 1983 caused a significant sales drought.

Ralph Cobey determined a new direction would be necessary and answered the call for crushers that could process concrete and asphalt materials. In 1984, Eagle Crusher began manufacturing horizontal shaft impactors (HSI) and engineered its first crusher to serve the concrete and asphalt recycling markets.

1990–present: Growth and innovation
In 1990, Ralph Cobey retired from day-to-day operations of Eagle Crusher, and Susanne Cobey assumed the position of company president. Shortly thereafter, Eagle Crusher acquired Stedman Machine Company in Aurora, Indiana; and in 1994, Eagle Crusher began manufacturing its own horizontal shaft impactor, the UltraMax, engineered specifically for the recycling market. In 2001, Cobey created Innovative Processing Solutions, an engineering design firm for designing and developing stationary processing systems for the industrial and aggregate markets.

Today, as a world leader in the manufacturing and innovation of portable crusher plants, Eagle Crusher continues to manufacture a complete line of horizontal-shaft impactors (HSI), jaw crushers, portable crushing and screening plants, and conveyors for the concrete and asphalt recycling and aggregate markets.

Portable plants
Eagle Crusher offers a wide range of portable impactor plants that feature the company's UltraMax® horizontal-shaft impactor (HSI). The portable impactor plants are manufactured in closed-circuit and open-circuit formats which refers to whether material is crushed, screened, and stockpiled by one plant or multiple plants.

Eagle Crusher's portfolio of portable impactor plant products include multiple series that vary in size and consequently production capacity, including its smallest portable impactor plant, the UltraMax® 400, as well as its largest the UltraMax® 1600. The company's most popular portable impactor plant is the UltraMax® 1200 which is available in a variety of configurations.

Bare equipment
In addition to portable crushing plants, Eagle Crusher also manufactures a range of portable screening/scalping plants that serve to sort crushed material. These portable plants are generally installed in open-circuit systems to be used in tandem with portable crushing plants to increase the amount of products that operators can generate.

For example, Eagle Crusher manufactures a 6x20 Screening Plant that is engineered to produce up to four products simultaneously, three with absolute sizing, and can return oversized product for further reduction. Another portable screening/scalping plant is Eagle Crusher's RipRap®, specially designed for aggregate producers and featuring the widest, heavy-duty feeder in the industry.

Eagle Crusher also manufactures impactor track units as an available alternative to its portable impactor plants. The UltraTraxx® is equipped with Eagle Crusher's UltraMax® UM-15 impactor and is designed for mobile crushing on the job site. Impactor track units are sometimes preferred by customers for their self-propulsion and size.

Specialty systems
Eagle Crusher portable jaw plants are manufactured to process more abrasive materials and are equipped with Eagle Jaw Crushers. The portable jaw plants are made available in a range of sizes and production capacities, similar to the portable impactor plants. The company's most recent portable jaw plant model, the Eagle 3260 Jaw Crusher, is the largest recycle jaw that Eagle Crusher offers.

Additionally, Eagle Crusher developed a patent-pending hydraulic toggle relief system that can be installed on any portable jaw plants that the company manufactures as well as retrofitted to any existing portable jaw plants. The hydraulic toggle relief system is a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to the traditional toggle plate.

Eagle Crusher manufactures a range of bare equipment that includes its UltraMax® Impactors, Eagle Jaw Crushers, and Eagle Crusher Hammermills. These crushing options are available to be installed on any preexisting portable or stationary plant configuration.

UltraMax® Impactors feature an optimal three-bar rotor design that produces a more uniform cubicle product. Eagle Jaw Crushers are engineered to crush material using an overhead eccentric design. Eagle Crusher Hammermills are cost-effective crushing options when budget and space are limited or when portable mounting is necessary.

Eagle Crusher's UltraMax® Impactors can be engineered for primary crushing as well as secondary and even tertiary crushing. Eagle Crusher offers two secondary portable impactor plant options, the UltraMax® 500-05 CVSS and the UltraMax® 1200-25 OCSS, that are designed to be used for additional material reduction.

Eagle Crusher's team of engineers specialize in designing plants and systems that solve unique crushing challenges. The company's extensive experience in the reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) industry led to its development of the on-site RAP system for crushing and precise screening, the MaxRap® System.

Additionally, Eagle Crusher engineered the Jaw/Impactor System, a unique crushing configuration that features the Eagle 3242 Jaw Crusher, the 6x20 Screening Plant, and the UltraMax® UM-15 impactor plant. This system is equipped to handle more abrasive materials and can generate up to five products.

Associations
Eagle Crusher is a member of the following trade associations:

• Associated Equipment Distributors (AED)

• Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)

• Construction & Demolition Recycling Association (CDRA)

• Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA)

• Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers (IAAP)

• Indiana Mineral Aggregates Association (IMAA)

• Michigan Aggregates Association (MAA)

• National Demolition Association (NDA)

• National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA)

• Ohio Aggregates & Industrial Minerals Association (OAIMA)

• Utah Asphalt Pavement Association (UAPA)