When Profits Count, Count on Eagle Crusher.

Eagle Crusher is a worldwide leader in the manufacture of a complete line of heavy-duty impact crushers, portable crushing and screening plants, jaw crushers, cone crushers, hammermills, and conveyors for the recycle concrete, asphalt, aggregate, and sand and gravel industries. The company provides innovative, quality products and exceptional aftermarket service and support.

Eagle Crusher goes to great lengths after the sale to keep its customers up and running at peak production. With Team Eagle, customers receive:

A full line of crushing and screening plants and systems designed for the most challenging applications like processing concrete with the toughest, high-volume steel rebar, with ease. Processing the most abrasive hard rock without equipment fatigue. Tough enough to work for these applications, powerful enough to work for you, no matter what you’re crushing.

Eagle Crusher History

It all began in the early 1900s with one man’s vision, that of C.L. Woods, an Ohio distributor of Eagle Tractors. Woods observed that farmers were taking the cobblestones from their fields and placing them along the dirt roadsides. He imagined, “What if someone created a small jaw crusher that could mount to the front of a tractor to crush the stone and use it to improve the roads?”

Woods approached Eagle Tractors with the idea, but when the company didn’t share his vision, he founded his own company to manufacture the jaw crusher he had imagined. Thus, in 1915, in Kenton, Ohio, Eagle Crusher Company was born.

While Eagle Tractors eventually ceased production, Eagle Crusher Company continued to innovate and expand. To help with further expansion, Woods sold a 25% share of Eagle Crusher to Ralph Cobey.

When Woods retired in 1952, Cobey purchased the remaining 75% of Eagle Crusher Company, and soon moved manufacturing to Galion, Ohio to be closer to the other companies he owned and operated, including Perfection Steel Body, manufacturer of steel grave vaults and truck bodies and hoists (started by his father, Harry Cobey), and Cobey Corporation, Bucyrus-Ohio manufacturer of a line of farm wagons.

In the 1960s, Eagle Crusher had won numerous large contracts for the manufacture of portable crushing plants, including one contract with the United States government to produce more than 300 crushing plants for road production during the Vietnam War.

In 1965, Perfection Steel Body and Cobey Corp. was sold to Harsco Corp. While Cobey stayed on as President, Harsco separated Eagle under a different management, which only focused on their large contracts, ignoring their normal customer base. When the contracts ended in 1969, there was no business left.

In 1970 Cobey bought Eagle Crusher back and restarted the company with one employee. As Cobey said, “I bought a name and some bad inventory.” Eagle slowly grew and in 1974 and 1975, purchased Diamond Iron Works and Austin-Western for their parts sales.

Cobey recruited his daughter, Susanne Cobey in 1974, becoming the company’s tenth employee to handle the parts sales. She had previously been with Ford Motor Company where she was the first, female, junior executive.

Through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, Eagle Crusher sales grew in the aggregate industry, but the company’s primary focus was the sale of portable coal crushers for strip mining. In 1983, the resolution of the coal strike caused portable coal crusher sales to virtually disappear.

Susanne Cobey sought a new direction for Eagle Crusher. She knew of the frustration customers were having processing asphalt and concrete with rebar with the traditional aggregate jaw and cone. She determined that the Horizontal Shaft Impactor (HSI), which was developed after WW II to process debris, was the answer. Susanne concluded that only one HSI style suited the US market. With that impactor, Eagle built the first US commercial recycling plant, Eagle’s Jumbo 1400, in 1984, and a new industry was born.

As Eagle Crusher’s own manufacture of a range of portable recycling plants progressed, the company found a need for a more innovative and robust impactor, thus in 1994, introduced its own line of a superior, UltraMax® HSI, featuring a unique, sculpted, solid steel, three-bar rotor, the industry’s heaviest, for the recycling market.

The UltraMax HSI has proven to continue to outperform all other impactors in the aggregate and recycle markets helping aggregate and recycling producers using Eagle Crusher impactors worldwide to out-produce their competition.

In 1990, Ralph Cobey officially retired, naming Susanne CEO of Eagle Crusher. In that same year, Susanne purchased The Stedman Machine Works, manufacturer of industrial and aggregate crushers for stationary installations, located in Aurora, Indiana.

Today, Eagle Crusher continues to consistently lead the industry in new product innovations and delivery of the most advanced, high-performance, and lowest operating-cost crushers in the industry for the recycle concrete, asphalt, aggregate, and sand and gravel industries. The company stands by its products with unsurpassed aftermarket service and support to make producers’ jobs easier and their businesses more profitable.

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