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Linder Hosts Grand Opening of Ft. Myers, Fla., Branch;
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inder Industrial Machinery Company recently moved into their brand-new Ft. Myers, Fla., facility. On July 14, the company hosted a grand opening celebration and open house. A great crowd of more than 200 customers joined local dignitaries, manufacturer executives and a welcoming team of Linder employees for the event that included building tours, giveaways and raffles. The new Linder branch on 16878 Domestic Avenue is more than 22,000 sq. ft., has eight shop bays and features a parts warehouse that allows them to stock over 100 percent more than their previous facility. “Our newest building design templates are set up to reduce customer downtime and perform repairs as safely and efficiently possible,” said Linder President and CEO John Coughlin. “We do not install expensive internal cosmetics which eventually customers pay for. Instead, we invest in additional inventory and shops that speed up the repair process to get our customers back to work quickly. This is also reflective in the state-of-the-art/environmentally friendly wash facility. This is a task that takes a great amount of time to perform. Ultimately, customers get charged for this process, but we
Some of the product support trucks that are dispatched from the Ft. Myers branch were on display at the event. Flanked by parent company Sumitomo representatives and key Linder managers, Linder Industrial Machinery’s President and CEO John Coughlin (C) cuts the ceremonial ribbon marking the official opening of the Ft. Myers, Fla., branch on July 14.
During the day’s festivities, Mike Ganier (C) of Genesis Attachments presented a Top 5 North American Dealer Award to Linder’s Gino Morin (L) and John Coughlin.
Carl Engman (R), Linder operations manager, takes a group on a guided tour of the new facility.
Looking over the “new digs” (L-R) are Linder’s Joe DeOreo, Steve Goble and Mark VanGarsel of Gulf Coast Underground, Ft. Myers, Fla.
(L-R): After lunch and before heading back to work, Travis, Marty and Little Marty Hickey of Hickey Excavation, Sebring, Fla., opened up a new Komatsu PC 490LC of interest.
Scott Lyons (L) of Tomahawk Construction, Ft. Myers, Fla., chats with Linder’s Vince Aguayo, VP-SW Florida region manager, about the new branch facility.
In addition to a great display of Komatsu machines, other equipment on the yard during the event included products from Konecranes, Terramac, Atlas, Bomag, Fecon, Rockland and other manufacturers.
