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Our History
Superior was founded in 1964 by a Warren, PA entrepreneur named
Elwood Fry. Mr. Fry had founded or co-founded several other businesses
including Warren Concrete Products prior to Superior Tire &
Rubber Corp. The early sales efforts of the business were focused
on retail car tire sales, recapping of tires and compression molding
rubber press-on tires.
In 1974 Henri LeMeur Sr. purchased the company in a leveraged buy
out. Sales were $940,000 during his first year. Superior manufacturing
and marketing was focused on rubber solid industrial tires at this
time. By 1980, Superior entered the polyurethane tire and load wheel
markets. On the rubber side, Superior focused on niche markets such
as the floor maintenance market and the rubber track shoe market.
Sales were $2,300,000 in 1980. Superior focused on improving its
market share in polyurethane industrial tires and consolidating
its gains in niche rubber industrial markets during the 1980s. In
order to service the polyurethane load wheel market, Superior made
its first investment in CNC machine tools. This investment would
grow to 20 networked CNC machine tools as well as several programmable
welders today. In addition, Superior began supplying the US military
with tires during this period. Superior’s quality system in
place today is a derivative of the MIL-I-45208A put in place at
that time.
In 1990s Superior began to expand its product offering into additional
markets which include the chopper cots, snow plow blades, mining
components, complex tire and wheel assemblies as well as several
other custom molded products. Beginning in 2000, Superior expanded
its tire and wheel offerings to include undercarriage subsystems
such as bogie rocker assemblies, drive wheels for tracked units
and idler subassemblies.
By 2005, sales had grown to $22,000,000 and employment to 170.
Our Vision
As the vendor of choice, Superior Tire & Rubber Corp. provides
technical excellence which gives our customers a competitive advantage.
Our current customers manufacture or service forklifts, manlifts,
construction equipment, paving equipment, mining equipment, plant
maintenance equipment and other industrial equipment. We manufacture
both industry standard products for stock and custom engineered
solutions to order. Our products have a high degree of technical
excellence in machining and elastomer selection and production.
The Superior Engineered Elastomers division produces custom molded
elastomer components for vibration and seismic control, wear parts
and chopping applications. In addition, the division manufactures
and markets our Polar Edge polyurethane snow plow blades.
Our Values
We work with Energy and Enthusiasm.
To ensure that we are responsive to external and internal customers,
we perform with energy and enthusiasm.
We offer a Path to Grow.
As employees we are committed to improving our professional skills.
As a company we are committed to providing opportunities for
personal growth and advancement. As the Vendor of Choice we
provide solutions that are continually improving.
We Create Value.
This is why we get paid. We continually seek to eliminate activities
that do not create value and improve activities to create greater
value.
We are Accountable.
We do what we say we are going to do.
Thank you for visiting our web site! Please
give us an opportunity to be your vendor of choice.
Hank LeMeur Jr.
President and CEO
hlemeur@superiortire.com |
