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Company Profile
VMAC: The Leader In Compressed Air Innovation® By Anne Fortin, Digital Marketing Specialist | VMAC
Celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, VMAC has earned a reputation for manufacturing innovative mobile air compressors and multi-power systems with extraordinary build quality, durability and reliability. Public works fleet managers and operators in the United States, Canada and around the world rely on VMAC systems to work in the most challenging applications, climates and environments. VMAC was founded in 1986 by two mechanical engineers, Jim Hogan and Tony Menard, who started a small machine shop, building disposable jet engines for the military. Once that contract ended, Hogan and Menard began working with a service truck builder who needed new air compressor mounting brackets. The truck builder’s current brackets kept breaking, resulting in air compressors falling 70 THE MUNICIPAL | JULY 2021
off its trucks on the highway. VMAC delivered high-quality and durable brackets, which landed it a loyal customer and established it within the mobile air compressor industry. In 1996, VMAC changed the industry by inventing the first engine-mounted rotary screw air compressor, UNDERHOOD™. In the years following the release of UNDERHOOD, VMAC developed several new product lines
ABOVE: Pictured is a VMAC demo truck with 6-in-1 Multifunction Power System. (Photo provided)
and gained a reputation for world-class mobile air compressors. Suez North America is an environmentally friendly water utilities company headquartered in Paramus, N.J. Bruce Ottogalli, transportation manager for Suez, chose UNDERHOOD air compressors for his fleet’s new trucks. He spoke with his crew about the fleet upgrade and found their number one request was to have more space on their trucks. To achieve this, Ottogalli sought to replace their bulky 1,000-pound diesel-driven air compressors with something more compact and lightweight.
