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          “We’re so old, a lot of people know us,” Heald says. But
        
        
          that doesn’t mean that this 70-plus year-old company is
        
        
          standing still. “We have salesmen on the ground, we con-
        
        
          tract to manufacturers’ reps, we do tradeshows, and we
        
        
          do a lot of stuff online,” says Heald. “We want to continue
        
        
          to grow; we want more equipment and acquisitions. We’re
        
        
          investing in automation and we continue to find new tech-
        
        
          nologies in the screening world. We’ll continue to do R & D
        
        
          and diversify our equipment offerings.”
        
        
          Regarding those pieces of equipment: since its first day
        
        
          of operation, SMICO has opted to service every machine
        
        
          it has ever built for its entire life, rather than discontinu-
        
        
          ing service and parts for old units. It’s just one more way
        
        
          that the company accomplishes its goal of being the best
        
        
          screening value in the marketplace. Indeed, over the last
        
        
          70 years SMICO has made a name for itself as being cus-
        
        
          tomer oriented, while simultaneously being obsessed with
        
        
          quality. And today, the company continues to offer the
        
        
          highest level of support and response to its clients’ needs
        
        
          while retaining its signature, American-made quality. So,
        
        
          when separating the wheat from the chaff in the realm of
        
        
          top-notch, customer-focused companies that are always
        
        
          on the cutting edge of technology, SMICO can certainly be
        
        
          said to belong to the former category – that’s the wheat,
        
        
          by the way.
        
        
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