Berlon Industries of Hustisford, Wisconsin, announced John Slawson is their new CEO this year.
Berlon Industries is a manufacturer of attachments for a variety of common landscaping equipment like skid loaders, wheel loaders, utility tractors, and even trenchers and mini skid steers. Berlon offers a lot of attachments not available from OEMs and is known for the rugged durability of its product.
Slawson has an extensive background in manufacturing and plans to bring a “lean manufacturing culture” to Berlon. A key points of lean culture is a consistent focus on creating greater and greater value to the buyer of your products. Slawson says he would like to see Berlon continuously make better and better products for contractors.
Berlon Industries has been in the snow and ice industry for a while with their buckets for removing snow. Over the last few years they have introduced an ice melter and a product completely unique to the industry called the Snowgrr. The Snowgrr is a high-speed auger that grabs snow from underneath objects, such as parked tractor trailers at a distribution center, and quickly tosses that snow into a windrow ready to be scooped up into a pile.
