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WCCO Belting's Mike Schroeder shares insight for the recycling industry about how cleated belting can benefit a recycling operation.

Mark Beyer, Senior Product Development Engineer at WCCO Belting and Alumnus NDSCS, wrote an article for the college's Alumni Review Magazine about innovation at WCCO Belting.

DuWayne Cookman, Automation Engineer at WCCO Belting, shares how WCCO Belting embraces automation, not to replace jobs, but to enhance roles and processes to ensure our production facility runs smoothly and efficiently, and to help avoid employee burnout.

DTN Progressive Farmer included information about our new Raptor Edge Defender in their latest equipment roundup. 

WCCO Belting’s patented Edge Defender™ cleat for combine harvest headers (draper platforms) is now available for aftermarket distribution and to agricultural equipment manufacturers worldwide. The angled cleat design increases yield with product flow control technology that directs crop to the center of the draper and onto the feeder belt. It also reduces downtime from buildup under the belt by pulling crop away from the cutting edge.

WCCO Belting's Rod Koch, our Vice President of Operations, wrote an article for Industry Today, in honor of National Safety Month in June, about how the company practices and promotes safety on the manufacturing floor.

This June, during National Safety Month, we introduce you to the team behind the scenes helping to ensure that safety continues to be a top priority at WCCO Belting.

WCCO Belting received two awards from the North Dakota Safety Council. The Safety Improvement Award was earned by reducing the company’s incident rate by 50.2% from 2019 to 2020. The Workplace Safety Merit Award is given to NDSC member companies showing an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) below 1 for the year.

With our CEO, Tom Shorma's, passion around exposing high school students to opportunities in manufacturing, Shorma will be a guest speaker at the Entrepreneurship Opportunities community event on May 26.

WCCO's Chad Haugen compiled an article including frequently asked questions and answers using experience from more than six decades in the belting industry, to help in the pursuit of quality replacement belting this season.