Patten Cat to Sell and Rent Metso’s Crushing and Screening Equipment

Patten Cat, Caterpillar’s authorized dealer in Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana, has joined the distribution network of Metso, a leading aggregates processing equipment company.

Michael Roth

Feb. 9, 2018

2 min read

Rendering of Patten Cat39s Wauconda Ill Cat Rental Store and dealer facility — Rendering of Patten Cat's Wauconda, Ill., Cat Rental Store and dealer facility.

Patten Cat, Caterpillar’s authorized dealer in Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana, has joined the distribution network of Metso, a leading aggregates processing equipment company. The arrangement will better enable Patten Cat to reach new markets in need of stationary or mobile crushing and screening equipment.

Through the partnership, Patten Cat will offer the Metso line of crushing and screening products through its new equipment and rental fleets.

“We are very pleased to enter this relationship with Metso, whose reputation in the aggregates industry is based on more than a century of expertise,” said David Combs, vice president of Patten Cat. “By adding Metso crushing and screening products to our offerings, we feel we can expand our presence and address new markets.”

“We are proud to welcome Patten Cat to our network of distributors,” said Ben Hansbury, vice president, distribution sales at Metso. “Patten Cat has an excellent reputation in this market, and a strong commitment to product support. Together with Metso’s products and services, it will be a winning combination for our collective customers.”

Patten Cat has been representing Caterpillar products since 1933. It has six locations covering Northwest Indiana and Northern Illinois. With a substantial rental program, Patten Cat is No. 54 on the RER 100.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.