Author: Rebecca Corrao

Chris Nielsen joins leadership team at Super Products as new VP of Operations.

Super Products has internally appointed Chris Nielsen as the new Vice President of Operations.

Chris joined Super Products in 2019 as a Manager in the Weld Department. He worked to increase efficiencies, improve weld quality and repeatability and explore weld automation. Working with the manufacturing department, the team successfully reduced hours while consistently producing quality products. 

Chris has an extensive background in manufacturing. He came to Super Products from Komatsu, Nippon Sharyo Manufacturing and Western Products where he held titles ranging from Value Stream Manager, Director of Continuous Improvement and Manufacturing Services Manager. 

“We are excited to add Chris to our leadership team.” noted President Randy Buening, “We look forward to seeing what he is able to accomplish with our manufacturing team while utilizing his background and experience.”

Chris Gittens joins leadership team at Super Products as new VP of Rentals.

After an extensive search, Super Products has appointed Chris Gittens to take over as the new Vice President of Rentals after Randy Buening, the previous VP of Rentals, was promoted to President at the beginning of 2021.

Chris has an extensive background in equipment manufacturing and distribution. He comes to Super Products from Thermo King, where he was the Director of Dealer Development. Prior to Themo King, he held leadership positions at CLAAS of America and CNH Industrial where he gained experience in financial analysis, strategic planning, dealer development and commercial credit while working in North America and Europe. Chris holds an MBA and MIA from Columbia University and earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

“We are excited to add Chris to our team.” noted Buening, “He will leverage his expertise in growing and developing distribution networks to help us expand our presence in the parts, service and rental markets through new and existing rental facilities.” Super Products is confident that Chris will continue to grow their presence and success in the vacuum truck rental market.

Super Products is launching its new Mud Dog® 700. The compact, versatile vacuum excavator is ideal for urban environments, featuring a 7-yard debris body and 600-gallon water tank, allowing operators to maximize the legal payload.

In the United States, a utility line is hit every six minutes. Each hit can cause power and utility disruption as well as severe injuries. More than ever, digging safer and smarter means utilizing vacuum excavation. Mud Dog Vacuum Excavators are designed for operator safety and consistent performance to meet the challenges of a variety of applications from compact, urban projects to large-scale excavation, potholing and trenching projects. In order to meet operator needs in an urban setting, the 700 model was built to maximize payload, allowing operators to carry and accomplish more while still excavating safely in small work areas.

There are various differences when comparing Mud Dog model configurations. While the 1200 and 1600 come standard with ejection unloading, the 700 comes standard as a dump body with an electric vibrator. The Mud Dog 700 has a 50° dump angle with the capability of dumping into a 48-inch container while maintaining a low overhead height and center of gravity for increased stability. Additionally, the 700 is equipped with a rear-mounted, extendable, 8-inch diameter boom that reaches 18 feet, has 270° rotation and pivots 10° downward, which minimizes job site restoration and eliminates traffic congestion near roads.

We are pleased to announce we have moved our online presence to a new address: www.superproducts.com. While there are no major changes to our layout or content, this small change will make it just a little bit easier for our partners and customers to find us online.

The new domain also means that our email addresses are changing to the format @superproducts.com. All incoming emails will work if they are sent to our old addresses.  However, the old address will be phased out, so it is important to update our contacts in your address books.

If you have links on your website which direct to us, please update them accordingly. Old links and bookmarks will be automatically redirected to www.superproducts.com.

Super Products has signed a new dealer partner out of Edwardsville, IL, Woody’s Municipal Supply Co., to represent their Camel, SuperJet and Mud Dog product lines to municipalities in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. RNOW, Inc. will continue to cover northern Illinois and Wisconsin while Elliot Equipment will continue to cover western Missouri, Iowa and eastern Nebraska and Kansas. Woody’s is a family-owned company with 45 years of experience providing quality equipment to municipalities.

Super Products is excited for this partnership and looks forward to working with Woody’s to grow the Super Products brand in the Midwest.

Super Products has signed a new dealer partner out of Charlotte, NC, Carolina Industrial Equipment, to represent their Camel, SuperJet and Mud Dog product lines to municipalities in North and South Carolina. Established in 1961, CIE has grown and prospered while focusing on industrial and municipal maintenance equipment for customers.

Super Products is excited for this partnership and looks forward to working with CIE to grow the Super Products brand in the Carolinas.

President Mike Vanden Heuvel announces his retirement; Vice President of Rentals Randy Buening named as his successor.

After 13 years leading and growing Super Products LLC, Mike Vanden Heuvel announced his retirement and will be leaving his role as the President of Super Products on December 31, 2020.  As his successor, Super Products’ Vice President of Rentals Randy Buening will be promoted to President of Super Products, effective January 1, 2021. 

Vanden Heuvel joined Super Products in 2007 as the VP of Industrial Sales and took over as President at the end of 2008. During his tenure he added several rental facilities and maintained steady growth under his leadership. Further, under Vanden Heuvel supervision, Super Products built and moved into its new state of the art headquarters in Mukwonago, WI in January 2020. This new building allowed the organization to consolidate three separate operating facilities in southeast Wisconsin into one where they now produce their full product line. Super Products thanks Mike for all his leadership and contributions and wishes him success in this next chapter of life.

Buening came to Super Products in May 2019 as the VP of Rentals and has since proven himself to be an excellent leader. Prior to joining Super Products, Randy was the VP of Operations for JX Enterprises Inc., a Peterbilt, Volvo, Hino and Ottawa dealer group, where he led the parts, service, body shop, lease and rental activities for a 21-location commercial truck group. Prior to JX Enterprises, he held leadership positions such as Director of Business Development at PACCAR Inc. and Brand Manager at Peterbilt Motors Company. Randy holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Super Products is confident that Randy will lead their company to the next level in their pursuit of success.