SCARAB Manufacturing and Leasing, LLC

Productivity and Fuel
SCARAB offers productivity and fuel efficiency simply unattainable with hydraulic driven drums SCARAB is one of only several manufacturers offering a choice of hydraulic or belt driven machines. SCARAB turners are designed to optimize fuel efficiency without sacrificing performance.

Local Parts and Service
Local service reduces down time, shipping costs and maintenance/repair costs. Our broad dealer network means you won! be waiting weeks for a repair. Most parts can be overnighted and many parts/fittings are immediately available through local merchants.

Value
SCARAB designs, engineers, fabricates and assembles its machines. Several of these processes are outsourced by other brands. Overtime, SCARAB'S hands-on approach has helped it earn a reputation for consistently manufacturing the industry's best turners. Our customers love our machines and trust our company.

Total Cost and Ownership
Today's SCARAB machines combine the founder's obsession for all things practical with 38 years of listening to customers tell us what is important and why. We'd appreciate the opportunity to tell you more about all the ways a SCARAB will save you money.

Design Flexibility
Do you need to place windrows side-by-side or back out of your windrows to maximize use of your pad? Do you want every possible creature comfort in the cab? Do you need wide tracks and a suspension system to handle uneven or muddy surfaces? Do you need to just fluff your material < or does it require a more aggressive drum? Do you want to build tall windrows? We can offer all these and many more with our modular component approach to designing machines.

Peace of Mind
There are many reasons why SCARAB is the 'Hoover windrow turners and why you'll often hear 'SCARAB th. windrow' instead of 'turn the windrow'. But it all comes dc to staying true to our Mission: At SCARAB we work to help composters throughout the world realize their full potential. Customers love our machines and trust our company.

Our Mission
At SCARAB we work to help composters throughout the world realize their full potential. Customers love our machines and trust our company.

Our Vision
To be the most successful and respected company serving the worldwide community of composters.
To make meaningful contributions to the compost industry for the advancement and welfare of humanity.

SCARAB derived its name from the Egytian Scarabaeus Sacer or “SACARAB Beetle”, held sacred by the Egytians as the symbol of immortatlity and fertility, which patiently rolls a ball of waste across a field, then buries itself within the ball, consumes it and emergers to begin the process anew.

SCARAB traces its beginnings back to the early 70's when confronted by a local feedlot to find a means for managing the manure and bedding produced by the feedlot. This gave rise to the first SCARAB composting machine (Pictured Below). Early Scarab Composter

Overcoming early obstacles and achieving financial and global marketing success earned Marvin the Small Business Association 1991 Texas Small Business Person of the Year Award. In 2006 the US Composting Council awarded Marvin the Hi Kellogg Award. This award recognizes individuals who have left a lasting positive impact on the US composting industry.

To fully appreciate SCARAB's machines ones really needs to understand its founder's life and personality. Marvin Urbanczyk, SCARAB's founder, was raised on a farm and after obtaining his degree began his own farming operation. He has worked with large equipment his entire life where he learned through experience how important good equipement is to an operation. So it's no surprise that his vision for SCARAB has always been to build a machine that last, is operator proof, doesn't breakdown due to an inadequate understanding of potential stresses placed on a machine, does the job it was designed to do, does it efficiently to minimize fuel cost, and is simple to operate and maintain.

He is also a hands on perfectionist who won't cut corners to squeeze additional profit from machine sales, who has no patience for hype or features that add no value and who is obsessed with what is practical….not what sounds or looks good. He's a hands on builder who insists that SCARAB be responsible for every step –from design to assembly. To this day his office is the one closest to the plant.

Almost forty years and countless innovations later SCARAB is the world's leading manufacturer of self-propelled windrow turners with machines throughout the US and in 17 other countries. Today's innovations make SCARAB a leader in fuel efficiency, production capacity, reliability, and low operating costs.

Thank you for visiting our site. We look forward to hearing from you, learning about your specific operation and exploring how SCARAB might build “just what you need”.