"Astec Underground entered the underground construction market with the acquisition of Trencor, the industry's most respected brand of large trenchers capable of cutting wide, deep trenches in the most difficult soil conditions," explains Astec Underground President Alan Odgers. "Next, we added American Augers, the world's leading manufacturer of boring machines and horizontal directional drilling equipment offering thrust and pullback force greater than 1,000,000 pounds."

   Astec Underground then formed a strategic alliance with Case for the sales and support of the company's well- known line of trenchers, vibratory plows and HDD products. This arrangement subsequently resulted in the purchase of Case underground utility construction products by Astec Underground.

   "The former Case products now are manufactured and sold under the Astec brand," says Odgers. "Because American Augers and Trencor have a long-established and significant name recognition in the industry we will continue to market their brands, along with the Astec-branded product line." 

   American Augers introduced its auger boring equipment in 1970 and its first directional drill model in 1988. The American Augers product line up features the world's largest selection of HDD models with pullback capabilities between 100,000 and 1.3 million pounds.

   The Trencor brand has dominated the large-trencher market for more than 50 years with high-performance rock trenchers and specialized excavation products used by contractors worldwide for a wide variety of projects.

Modern Facilities

   Astec Underground's 360,000 square-foot global headquarters in Loudon, Tennessee includes corporate offices, a new research and development center, training facilities, a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant, and custom paint facility.

   The completely air-conditioned manufacturing plant is located on 108 acres and was built in 1997. It has 48 dock doors to allow for easy flow of materials in and out.

Total square footage equals 330,000 sq ft comprised of the following:

• Manufacturing -- 250,000 sq ft
• Office -- 31,567 sq ft with 150 office cubicles and 13 glass enclosed offices
• Research and Development -- 9,977 sq ft
• Powder Paint Facility -- 26,675 sq ft -- E coat process with electrostatic powder sprayers and 4 miles of conveyor
• Training facility -- 10,414 sq ft with state of the art computer learning center, classrooms, and three ventilated training labs for all weather hands-on learning, as well as, 16 acres of demonstration sites.
• Storage -- 4,000 sq ft

   Within this facility, Astec Underground manufactures all Astec brand trenchers and vibratory plows below 250 horsepower.  We also build the entire Trencor line of machines at this facility, in our newly expanded plant. All boring machines and directional drills are manufactured in West Salem, Ohio.

   Astec Underground's Sales and Service personnel operates through our current dealer network. The personnel (in addition to those in management, engineering, and manufacturing) were hand picked from the "best of the best" at American Augers, John Deere, and Trencor to provide the focus necessary to serve you, our customer. These Astec Underground representatives each have many years of application expertise and know their product, so they can best assist you in determining your needs and both rapidly and efficiently provide for your satisfaction.

Astec Underground's manufacturing plant in Loudon, TN