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| | Business America: Exporting pays off - Salem Tool Inc. becomes a global exporter of mining equipment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The company was originally located in Salem, Ohio, and during mid-1988 the intellectual property of the Salem Tool Company was purchased by Laird T. Orr, President, and members of his family, who have been in the augering industry since the early 1950s. |
 | | Kay Orr, Administrative Manager, notes, "Our competition inside the country is the older Salem Augering Systems, but outside, ours is a brand new technology with new markets discovered almost every week. |
 | | Kay Orr says the company's "potential for both short- and long-term growth is in the international market, and the only obstacle we see now is proving that our technology of extracting coal, which has been used in the United States for over 50 years, will mine coal anywhere in the world." |
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