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EQUIPMENT the holding company in 2010. Today, DSC Dredge, LLC operates from three major manufacturing facilities located in Reserve, Louisiana; Poplarville, Mississippi; and Green- bush, Michigan.
The DSC Way
Since DSC’s inception, the company has delivered more than 500 dredges. Bob Wetta explains further, “Up until about 2005, the majority was domestic sales primarily in the aggregate industry. Shortly after 2005, DSC expanded into many export markets, now totaling over 45 countries.
Annual export sales soared as high as 70% in the years since 2010. The export markets vary from environmental dredging to mining with dredges.”
Bob Wetta,
Last year alone, DSC had 21 major projects either in production or delivered. But each is as unique as the hun- President/CEO dreds that preceded them, and the hundreds that are likely DSC Dredge to follow. Wetta says that’s no accident. DSC prides it- self on providing a ‘customized’ service for its customers. “DSC has manufactured the deepest sand mining dredge in the western hemisphere, with a dredging depth capabil- ity of 200 feet. DSC is just completing an aggregate dredge that will dredge to 155 feet deep. DSC has built the newest dustpan dredge. The list goes on and on, and we typically add 2 to 3 builds like this per year,” said Wetta.
Those unique one-of-a-kind newbuildings are impor- tant, but Wetta values his repeat business just as much, saying, “DSC prides itself on repeat sales. We also weigh heavily on our existing clients as references and to provide success stories to prospective clients to help us attract new business. One challenge is that our dredges are designed to last +25 years, so sometimes it takes a while for the repeat dredge to come back around. Fortunately, a lot of our cli- ents have also grown their businesses, so we are afforded the opportunity to sell new dredges to them for different projects and or applications.”
DSC doesn’t just sell equipment. Training is always pro- vided with a dredge sale, and at the same time,
