Yearlong events are planned as Morbark Inc., Winn, Mich., celebrates 50 years of manufacturing industrial equipment systems.
The company got its start in a blacksmith shop in 1957 when Norval Morey, a veteran logger, sawmill owner and entrepreneur, introduced a portable pulpwood debarker. Over the next five decades, the company grew. With strong footing in the sawmill industry, Morbark expanded by introducing the first portable whole tree chipper in the early ‘70s. This was followed shortly by the introduction of the first disc-style brush choppers in the ‘80s.
Founder Norval Morey patented a drum-style chipper in the 1990s, which was followed by the creation of the combination Flail Chiparvestor in 1991.
Today, the company continues the tradition of innovation with the recent introduction of a line of stump grinders.
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