Since acquiring the Boxer Equipment line from Mertz Manufacturing at the end of 2012, Morbark Inc. has established a worldwide distributor network for the compact utility loaders. It has added more than 22 distributors over the past seven months.
“We’re excited by the amount of interest we’ve had from companies wanting to represent the Boxer Equipment line,” said Mark Rau, Morbark dealer development manager. “Our Boxer distributor network is expanding quickly with companies that will give our customers the high-quality service they expect from Morbark.”
Morbark has signed the following Boxer Equipment distributors in the past seven months:
- Abele Tractor & Equipment Co., Albany, N.Y.
- AGC Irrigation Supplies & Equipment, with three locations on Long Island, N.Y.
- Alexander Equipment Co., Lisle, Ill.
- Bierschbach Equipment & Supply Co., with four locations in Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota
- Cobb County Tractor Co., with two locations in the greater Atlanta area
- Deacon Equipment Co., Bloomsburg, Pa.
- Essco Distributors, Bay Shore, N.Y.
- Gaston Rentals, with three locations in the Charlotte, N.C., metro area
- Grinding & Drilling, Desboro, Ontario, Canada
- Harrington’s Equipment Co., Fairfield, Pa.
- Heritage Tractor, with 10 locations in Kansas and Missouri
- Knox Equipment Rentals, West Chester, Pa.
- Meade Tractor, with seven locations in Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia
- Newtown Power Equipment Newtown, Conn.
- Nortrax Northeast, with 10 locations in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York
- Nortrax Southeast, with nine locations in Florida
- Queensland Mini Diggers PTY LTD, Sumner Park, Queensland, Australia
- Schmidt Equipment, with five locations in Massachusetts
- Top Notch Equipment, North Plymouth, Minn.
- Van Wall Equipment, with 12 locations throughout Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska
- White Oak Equipment, with four locations in eastern Virginia
- Wilder Motor & Equipment Co., Nashville, Tenn.
Abele Tractor & Equipment Co.; Alexander Equipment Co.; Cobb County Tractor Co.; Essco Distributors; Grinding & Drilling; Newtown Power Equipment; Nortrax Northeast; Nortrax Southeast; White Oak Equipment; and Wilder Motor & Equipment Co. are also authorized Morbark tree care equipment dealers. Alexander Equipment Co., Nortrax Northeast and Nortrax Southeast also carry Morbark’s industrial equipment.
Cardinal Rental and Sales Corp., Connect Equipment Sales and Shultis Sales Agency have signed manufacturer’s representative agreements with Morbark to promote the Boxer line. Cardinal’s area of responsibility covers New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. Connect Equipment covers Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, while Shultis is responsible for promoting the line in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and El Paso County in Texas.
Morbark Inc., based in Winn, Mich., manufactures high-performance equipment for the forestry, recycling, tree care, sawmill and biomass markets. The company produces a full line of whole tree and waste wood chippers, flails, brush chippers, horizontal and tub grinders, sawmill equipment, material handling systems and more.
Boxer Equipment has four model series available: a dedicated trencher and the 300, 400 and 500 series, which are built to handle a full complement of more than 50 universal compact utility attachments.
