Groff Tractor & Equipment Purchases Plasterer Equipment

Groff Tractor & Equipment, a construction equipment dealer celebrating its 65th year in business, has acquired Plasterer Equipment, a John Deere Construction & Forestry dealer with a strong legacy and more than 110 years in the industry.
Feb. 4, 2023
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Groff Tractor & Equipment, a construction equipment dealer celebrating its 65th year in business, has acquired Plasterer Equipment, a John Deere Construction & Forestry dealer with a strong legacy and more than 110 years in the industry.

"We plan to operate the newly acquired John Deere business out of the current Plasterer locations and will provide parts, service, sales, and rental through these facilities just like Plasterer has done for the last 110 years," said Mike Savastio, Groff president and CEO. "These branches will be 're-branded' to become Groff Tractor & Equipment dealerships moving forward."

The purchase of Plasterer Equipment and its four locations located in Lebanon, Bethlehem, Sellersville, and Lewisberry expands Groff Tractor's footprint to 10 locations throughout Pennsylvania. 

"We will continue to operate our normal Groff Tractor & Equipment business out of our Mechanicsburg and Ephrata facilities supporting existing brands that Groff Tractor currently has today and providing the same outstanding support that we have done for 65 years," added Savastio.

Groff Tractor & Equipment will maintain its headquarters in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and will continue to carry and support premium brands such as Wirtgen Group, Case, Takeuchi, Rokbak, Liebherr, Toro, Giant, Terramac, Tana, CBI, LaBounty, Etnyre, and more. 

Founded in 1958, Groff Tractor & Equipment is a premier heavy equipment dealer serving a broad range of construction markets, including heavy construction, landscaping and general contracting, road building, excavating, forestry, governmental, demolition, and material processing. Groff Tractor provides a flexible mix of parts, service, rentals and sales throughout Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.GroffTractor.com

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.

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