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DERUYTER, N.Y. USA vested a lot of time and money
Body will make its first-ever ap- and we’re looking forward to it,”
pearance at the Pennsylvania said Bruce Macßae, president,
Farm Show Jan. 11-18. USA Body Inc,
“I’m sure it’s going to be a USA Body is the manufacturer
super deal. They’ve certainly in- of silage and grain body units.
The Macßae family includes, from left, Bruce, Sean,
Kelly, Kristine and Kevin.
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The $B6-million renoveation Macßae and Kristine but also
investment “is a testament to the sons Sean and Kevin and Ke
importance of the ag industry in vin’s wife Kelly, plus five other
Pennsylvania,” he said. full-time employees.
The new expansion, Macßae “USA body is something that
believes, will attract the farm evolved from a farm equipment
public back to the event, and was repair business” that Macßae
one of the major reasons why started in 1979, he noted. “We
Macßae decided to exhibit at the did all kinds of farm equipment
show. repair for local farmers and then
“Up until this year, the Farm we got into automotives.
( 4Up until this year, the Farm Show wasn’t
that big of an attraction for our farmers. I
think Harrisburg has a unique opportunity to
attract the farm people again. 5 5
Show wasn’t that big of an at
traction for our farmers,” he said.
“I think Harrisburg has a unique
opportunity to attract the farm
people again.
“It’s the emphasis that’s been
put the ag, the farm part of it,”
he said, that will bring fanners to
the show. For his business, “we’re
looking for strictly a farmer
crowd.”
Since the show is quite a dis
tance from Deruyter, “I’m fairly
sure that if this show works out,
it will be the only winter show
we’ll do in Pennsylvania,” said
Macßae.
He and his wife, Kristine, will
work the entire show.
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Bruce Macßae
President, USA Body Inc.
“As a part of that, there was a
certain amount of fabrication in
volved, and we got into early
1990 s and started doing a little
more of it,” and were advised by
their customers to do fabrication
full-time,” he said.
“In 1995 we decided to buy
some material and build some
(silage and grain unit bodies)
and have some here and more or
less went at it as a business. We
sold nine bodies the first year
and last year built 100.”
Macßae believes that the
company is the largest single
builder in the Northeast. The
business has product in 16 states.
A new shop was added to the
business in 2000 and also in
cludes a dealer in Chambers
burg.
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