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the farmers of the American heartland.
Today, SMICO, which Shidler founded in 1947 and then
merged with Productive Equipment ten years later, still
supplies the biggest names in the food processing uni-
verse, including General Mills, ADM, and Cargill, among
others, with the equipment that, according to Heald,
“gets out all the junk. For example,” he explains, “if you’re
doing grain, you’re trying to get the clean grain to send
up line; getting the dust out of it, dirt, all that stuff that
comes in when it’s being harvested.” In addition to grain
mill products, SMICO’s food and feed screening machines
also process meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables, sugar and
confectionary products, fats and oils, distilled beverages,
and miscellaneous prepared foods, such as coffee, tea,
spices, and pastas, among many others.
SMICO also has fifty years of experience in the providing
oilfield drilling equipment such as shakers, screeners,
and separators for the oil and natural gas industries. In
2009, the company bought Symons Screens, a builder
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
SMICO Manufacturing Co.
WHAT:
Manufacturer of screeners, shakers, sift-
ers and other separating equipment
WHERE:
Oklahoma City, OK.
WEBSITE
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