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June 2010
Fenner Dunlop Classic Conveyor
Growing with Product and Service Solutions
Fenner Dunlop Classic Conveyor's Headquarters in Blairsville, PA.
When Fenner Dunlop Classic and began developing and patenting
new products, from belt clean-
Two years after Pat Dolan, Sr.’s
South America.
Conveyor recently
announced distributorship ers to slider beds. He became Vice death, Fenner PLC in 2008
agreements that extended its product
and service coverage over much
of the southeastern and south central
President Operations and Sales in
1988.
When Pat Sr. retired in 1992, his
acquired Conveyor Services Corp.
and its three companies—Classic
Conveyor Components, LoadOut
United States, the company three sons and one daughter Services Inc. and Conveyor
was signaling another milestone in
its rich history of growth and
progress in the conveyor solutions
industry.
Classic’s “parent firm,” Conveyor
Services, sprang from humble
beginnings and a strong service
ethic in 1980. Pat Dolan, Sr., a
coal-handling superintendent in
the power industry, pulled together
a crew to service mines and power
generation plants in western
assumed ownership of Conveyor
Services, and Troy Dolan was
named president. As the firm’s reputation
and customer base grew,
Troy oversaw significant growth. In
1996, He signed a distributor
agreement with Scandura/Fenner
Dunlop. Service shops were established
in Ohio and West Virginia.
In 1998, Troy founded Classic
Conveyor Components Corporation
in Blairsville, PA and opened a
Services SA in Chile. By then,
Conveyor Services had grown to
some 350 employees in eight U.S.
locations and the Chile office, producing
more than $100 million
annual revenues—a good fit for
Fenner, one of the world’s largest
manufacturers of mining and
industrial conveyor belting.
The acquisition became a significant
part of Fenner Dunlop
Americas’ newest division, Fenner
Pennsylvania’s Appalachian shop in West Virginia. Classic Dunlop Conveyor Services,
Mountain region. Loaded into a
World War II military ambulance,
Dolan’s “Belt Doctors,” as they
were known, made the rounds to
repair and service conveyor belts
negotiated a U.S. distributorship
with Lorbrand in South Africa and
undertook expansion into Western
U.S. markets in Colorado and Utah.
In 2002, the company founded
“…bringing the full-service element
to Fenner Dunlop’s existing business
of manufacturing conveyor
belting,” the firm’s announcement
stated. (Fenner Dunlop also folded
on site, 24/7.
LoadOut Service Corporation to newly acquired King Energy
That business, and its service culture,
became engrained in Pat’s
son Troy at an early age. When he
was still in school, Troy apprenticed
with the service crews and became
a full-time Belt Technician upon his
high school graduation in 1983.
He was promoted to Outside
Sales/Foreman three years later
provide coal companies expertise
in containing transportation costs
and improving their bottom lines
through innovative loadout service
methods.
Classic in 2005 made its first
venture into the international marketplace
when it opened a full service
shop in Antofagasta, Chile,
Services and Solid Systems
Engineering LLC into that division.)
In its role as a key part of Fenner
Dunlop’s resurgent service strategy,
Classic Conveyor designs and
manufactures a full line of conveyor
components and structure to meet
material handling needs for mining,
aggregates, pulp and paper,
and power industries. In its
Blairsville, PA manufacturing facility,
Classic produces frames, structure
and components, and designs
custom products that increase productivity,
reduce downtime and
promote safety.
“We are uniquely equipped at our
Blairsville plant to design and manufacture
standard and custommade
structure and components,”
says Classic Conveyor’s president,
David Hurd, “We focus on three
strategies to keep our customers’
systems running efficiently and
safely—products, services and
engineered solutions.”
Hurd added that Classic Conveyor
continually strives to improve its
manufacturing operations through
such advancements as a robotic
welding system to increase productivity,
ensure employee safety and
lower costs for customers.
Classic products include idlers,
conveyor drives, terminal groups,
structure and more. Further,
Classic’s conveyor system solutions
include programs that help
operators control and reduce costs
and grow revenue—safety audits,
belt mapping, component management
programs, preventive maintenance
and field engineering support.
David Hurd, President
“We place a lot of emphasis on
quality design and engineering,”
Hurd explains, “because we know it
reduces component, belt and structure
failure and improves overall
safety. For example, our own quality
requirements for our frictionless
centrifugal seal idlers are more
stringent than CEMA standards.”
Fenner Dunlop Classic Conveyor
components are sold and serviced
at its company locations in
Blairsville, Logan, WV, and Marion,
IL, and through Fenner Dunlop
Conveyor Services locations in
Sabina, OH, Big Creek, WV,
Farmington, NM, Denver, CO,
Delta, CO, Price, UT and Gillette,
WY.
Meanwhile, Classic Conveyor
continues working to identify topnotch
distributors, both in the U.S.
and Latin America, to augment the
network of established service
locations. Classic has made significant
progress in that expansion--
such as the most recent announcement
of new distributorships that
included Amerimex USA in
Arkansas, Louisiana and parts of
Mississippi and Tennessee, and
Richmond Supply, Inc., in most of
Georgia, all of South Carolina and
parts of North Carolina.
Fenner Dunlop Classic Conveyor's Drive Systems are State-of-the Art.
Classic Conveyor Idlers Exceed CEMA Standards.