Scotchman Industries, Inc. o f Philip, SD, is celebrating 45 years of manufacturing the Scotchman hydraulic ironworker with an open house. It will be held Tuesday, September 18th, 2012, from 9 AM to 3 PM (MDT). Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the 120,000 sq. ft. Factory and view live machine demonstrations. In 1967, Arthur A. Kroetch, founder of Scotchman Industries, saw an opportunity in the form of a newly designed hydraulic ironworker. With financial assistance from the Small Business Administration, Art purchased the U.S. patent for the Dvorak Hydraulic Ironworker. “This was the first machine of its kind that could punch, bend and shear metal using hydraulic pressure with a 35- ton force,” said a company spokesperson. “This hydraulic ironworker transformed the metal fabrication industry into what it is today. Scotchman beganmanufacturing this one model of hydraulic ironworker in 1967 at its manufacturing facility in Philip, South Dakota, and has become the largest NorthAmericanmanufacturer and supplier of hydraulic ironworkers.” Today, Scotchman Industries offers 13 different hydraulic ironworkermodels from 45 to 150 tons in three distinctive styles: • Component Tool Table design allows the operator to use different tools including punch, angle shear, channel shear, solid round and square rod shear, flat bar shear, rectangle notcher, 90° V notcher, press brake, pipe notcher tube shear. • Fully Integrated Ironworker with five built-in tools consisting of a punch, angle shear, flat bar shear, round and square rod shear and a rectangle notcher. • Dual Operator Machine allows two operators towork simultaneouslywithout loss of speed or pressure. In addition to the ironworker, Scotchman offers a full line of circular cold saws including pivot and column designs for ferrous and nonferrous applications, manual to fully automatic. Scotchman ironworkers and cold saws are still being built at the company’s factory in South Dakota. “Scotchman Industries evolved from a humble beginning, a small salvage business with six employees that also manufactured farm products,” said the spokesperson. “The present Scotchman facility has 120,000 sq. ft. Of manufacturing space, 65 employees, and a network of over 500 distributors nationwide. Scotchman sells in over 50 countries throughout the world.” All Scotchman machines are backed by Scotchman’s three-year warranty. Scotchman is also the NorthAmerican importer of ALMI tube and pipe notchers, designed to provide quality and high production. Scotchman offers three styles: manual, electric and abrasive. Also offered are Scotchmanmeasuring systems including Scotchman Advanced Measuring Systems, a manual length-gauging device that can be adapted to a variety of metal or woodworking machinery; and Scotchman’s Advanced Feed System, which is programmable, designed to increase production, reduce operator error and eliminate scrap. For more information contact: Jerry Kroetch, President Scotchman Industries, Inc. 180 E. Hwy 14/P.O. Box 850 Philip, SD 57567 800-843-8844 info@scotchman.com www.scotchman.com