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PHIL featured in International Mining Magazine

12/10/2008 - Milwaukee & Peoria - These towns are huge in the surface mining industry

Adding even more to Peoria's truck pedigree, in 1969, L.B. Philippi and LeRoy Hagenbuch formed Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. (PHIL) with a vision of enhancing the productivity of off-highway trucks. The company's signature product is the Autogate® Tailgate, the first commercially successful tailgate ever produced...

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Josh Swank gives speech on "Hot Slag Body Efficiences" at AISTech in St. Louis

5/4/2009 - Josh Swank gives speech at AISTech in St. Louis, MO on "Efficient and Cost-Effective Transport of Hot Slag with Off-Highway Trucks."

To learn more about this topic, or for a copy of the paper written for this presentation, please email your request to sales@philsystems.com.

Email Request for Whitepaper on Efficient Hot Slag Transport

Congratulations Scot Hepp for winning the 1,500 Ton Model!

8/22/2009 - A hearty congratulations goes out to Scot Hepp, who along with 231 fellow golfer's at this year's Coal Country Open, registered to win a 1/50th scale model of a Bucyrus 495HR 1500 Ton shovel. Scot was presented with the model at the closing banquet on Saturday night.

While at the Coal Country Open in Gillette, WY, Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc. showcased our new 1,500+ Ton capacity Rear-Loading Lowboy Trailer that is capable of hauling a Bucyrus 495 shovel or a P&H 4100 shovel.

For more information on our lowboy trailer, visit its page on this website, or call us at (309) 697-9200 or email us at sales@philsystems.com.

Lowboy Trailer web page

PHIL featured in "Made in the Region" article in "Peoria Magazine"

3/3/2010 - We still make things in the U.S.? Why yes, yes we do. Despite an overall decline in domestic manufacturing over the last three decades, we haven’t lost everything to China. All kinds of products are still being made and manufactured here in the Peoria area.

When we consider local manufacturing, most of us tend to think of construction and earthmoving equipment, the agriculture and mining industries, and supplier parts for Caterpillar and John Deere. And certainly, that has been the backbone of the regional manufacturing sector for decades, and continues to be a critical component. But local manufacturing encompasses a much wider net than that. Here are 10 local firms making products—not always the typical ones you associate with manufacturing—right here in central Illinois...

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