Frank Multerer

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says Frank Multerer, president of MBW.
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"Those standards were more of a windfall for our marketing department than for any meaningful use in an engineering sense," says Multerer.
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It will vary a little from manufacturer to manufacturer," explains Multerer.

Frank Multerer, PresidentMBW Inc.

Frank Multerer Phone: 800-678-5237 Ext-125 Fax:

Vibratory plate compactors are three to four times more productive than rammers in terms of covering surface area in a given time frame, says Frank Multerer, president of MBW Inc.And a plate will have significantly fewer maintenance problems, he says.
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"When choosing a rammer, the only thing you have to kind of watch out for is the size of the rammer," advises Multerer.
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Centrifugal force is important, says Multerer of MBW, but less so than amplitude or mass. "It's perhaps the most misleading spec we give people.It's the least important of those three."
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"I always advise people to go with a machine that is a little more than what they might need under ideal conditions," adds Multerer.

M-B-W president Frank Multerer announced that Bob Braun was promoted to vice president of manufacturing and Bert Multerer was named vice president of administration.

Market-testing equipment also can extend beyond the debut of a new product, said Frank Molterer, president of MBW Inc., a Slinger-based manufacturer that specializes in soil compactors and cement finishers.Manufacturers often send out equipment already on the market with hopes that contractors will deliver feedback on how to make an old product better.

"(Contractors) are told that they're part of an ongoing process of fine-tuning," he said.
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Sending a piece of truly "new" equipment out into the field comes with its own perils, Molterer said.Construction manufacturers find themselves in a hotly competitive market, and guarding trade secrets often prevents equipment makers from sending prototypes onto job sites where they fall under the scrutiny of anyone with ambitions on a new patent, he said.

"If it's a top-secret, patentable kind of thing, you'd be a damn fool to release it to the market," Molterer said."We're all very, very cautious if there are matters of intellectual protection involved.Even if it's not, (manufacturers) aren't just going to let it out into the work place where someone can steal the idea."

In one case, MBW delivered a new piece of concrete-finishing equipment to a work site for testing, and just two days later, a competitor called MBW threatening a patent-infringement suit, Molterer said, noting that the suit never developed.

"We thought we had everything under control, and that's what we're worried about," he said.
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Testing a new machine properly in the field comes down to finding the right subjects, Molterer said.The manufacturer has to find contractors who do a lot of the kind of work the piece is geared for, and they have to supply good advice, he said.

"You will rarely find contractors, dealers or salesmen that would be engineers," Molterer said.