LBX Company Celebrates 150 Years of the Link-Belt Brand
LBX Company employees celebrated 150 years of the Link-Belt brand with a special event at the Customer Experience Center in Lexington, Ky. The event featured various activities, including food, demonstrations, music, and games. Employees reminisced about significant milestones in company history while looking toward future endeavors.
The Link-Belt brand was founded in 1874 by William Dana Ewart, who saw a need for reliable and durable innovations to help build emerging American infrastructure. Through the past 150 years, Link-Belt has grown from the invention of a “linked belt” chain drive to a leader in the industry. The company has a long history of innovation, from introducing the first crawler-mounted crane shovels and wheel-mounted excavators to many features that are now standard on excavators, including hydraulic controls.
Within the past 25 years, Link-Belt Excavator Co. and its parent company, Sumitomo, have introduced a robust lineup of equipment encompassing six product series: Quantum, LX, X2, X3, X4, and the recently launched X4S. Further expanding their offerings, the 40 Series for forestry applications debuted in 2015, followed by the 2024 launch of the 40B Series.
LBX has established itself as a leader in excavators, material handling equipment, and forestry products. Its commitment to excellence extends throughout North and Latin America, with LBX do Brasil as its subsidiary for distribution and support in Brazil and the broader Latin American market.
“We at LBX are proud of our Link-Belt heritage and are honored to be part of a legacy that spans 150 years,” said Eric Sauvage, president and CEO. “We shape our future together with our employees and our business partners, guided by our Long-Term Strategic Framework while leaning on our core purpose, living and breathing from our core values, and relying on our strategic anchors to be successful.”
LBX Co. has built its reputation on quality and customer service. LBX Company LLC offers a full line of Link-Belt hydraulic excavators—including standard, long front and minimum swing configurations—from eight to 80 metric tons, along with scrap and material handlers, heavy duty, and forestry machines. Link-Belt machines are available through an extensive network of North and Latin America dealers.
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Michael Roth
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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.