What Eagle Iron Works does

Eagle Iron Works (EIW), founded in 1872 in Des Moines, Iowa, is a manufacturer of aggregate processing equipment serving the sand, gravel, crushed stone, and construction materials industries. The company's core product portfolio centers on washing, classifying, dewatering, and scrubbing equipment, including Classifying Tanks, Fine Material Washers, Coarse Material Washers, Attrition Scrubbers, Blade Mills, Log Washers, Sol-Clay Washers, Dewatering Screens, and portable wash plants. Differentiated components include the proprietary Eagle Gear Reducer (developed in the 1960s with a documented 50+ year operational life), the CONDOR sub-brand using a Dodge TA II reducer as a lower-priced alternative, and PLC-based automation systems with Digital DialSplit and Mark X controls. Through a partnership with Diefenbach (another McLanahan family company), EIW extends into thickeners and filter presses for tailings management and water recycling, complementing its Hawk Fines Recovery Plant and Falcon Sand Plant.

EIW generates revenue primarily through hardware sales of capital equipment and OEM replacement parts, supplemented by field service, installation, plant audits, and warranty support. Distribution is exclusively through an extensive dealer network spanning the US and Europe (including Dibble Equipment, JW Bell, Mormak Equipment, Syscom BV, ICM Solutions, CT Fike Company, and Mellott Company), which provide local sales, parts stocking, and 24/7 service. Marketing relies on content-driven channels including case studies, webinars, blog content, and video rather than outbound enterprise selling.

The company has operated as a subsidiary of McLanahan Corporation since November 2012, when McLanahan acquired its assets. McLanahan is itself a family-owned industrial equipment company tracing to 1835. EIW maintains its own brand identity, engineering function, and dealer relationships within the McLanahan family of companies. The customer base spans enterprise aggregates producers, ready-mix concrete suppliers, and construction materials companies across multiple US states, Canadian provinces, the UK, and the Netherlands, with documented equipment lifecycles exceeding 25 years at major sites such as Silvi Materials' Eagleswood plant.

Name

Eagle Iron Works

Legal name

Eagle Iron Works

Website

https://eagleironworks.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1872

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Eagle Iron Works, founded 1872 in Des Moines, Iowa, designs and manufactures aggregate washing, classifying, dewatering, and scrubbing equipment, serving enterprise sand, gravel, and construction materials producers exclusively through a US and European dealer network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aggregate Processing Equipment

NAICS

Mining Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333131), Mining and Oil and Gas Field Machinery Manufacturing (33313), Agriculture, Construction, and Mining Machinery Manufacturing (3331)

SIC

Mining Machinery & Equip (No Oil & Gas Field Mach & Equip) (3532), Construction, Mining & Materials Handling Machinery & Equip (3530), Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Washing, Scrubbing & Classification Equipment (IMAHAMAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Iron Ore Beneficiation & Concentration (Crushing, Screening, Washing, Magnetic Separation) (IMAKAAAD), Iron Ore Tailings, Waste Management & Reclamation (Closure, Remediation) (IMAKAAAI)

Keywords

• Aggregate processing equipment
• Sand washing equipment
• Classifying tanks
• Dewatering screens
• Fine material washers

Headquarters

HQ city

Des Moines

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Aggregate Processing Equipment Sales: Eagle Iron Works manufactures and sells heavy-duty aggregate processing equipment including classifying tanks, fine material washers, coarse material washers, attrition scrubbers, blade mills, log washers, and other washing/classifying equipment. Equipment is sold through dealer network.
2. OEM Spare Parts: Genuine OEM replacement parts manufactured to the same specifications as original parts, available through dealers. Parts increase operational life of equipment and guarantee function and quality.
3. Field Service and Technical Support: Trained field service personnel provide installation, startup, plant audits, maintenance operations, component repair and replacement. Warranty team provides support backed by commitment to quality and reliability.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Eagle Iron Works manufactures heavy-duty aggregate processing equipment for washing, classifying, dewatering, and scrubbing sand, gravel, and crushed stone. The product portfolio includes classifying tanks, fine material washers, coarse material washers, attrition scrubbers, blade mills, log washers, dewatering screens, sand plants, and portable wash plants. The company also supplies OEM replacement parts and field service support through its dealer network.

Product overview

Eagle Iron Works offers a comprehensive portfolio of aggregate processing equipment for the mining and construction industries. The core product line centers on washing, classifying, and dewatering equipment including Classifying Tanks, Fine Material Washers, Coarse Material Washers, Attrition Scrubbers, Blade Mills, Log Washers, Sol-Clay Washers, and various screen types (Horizontal, Inclined, Dewatering). The company provides both stationary and portable configurations through its Trek Portable Wash Plants line. Eagle Iron Works also offers specialized solutions for tailings management through the Hawk Fines Recovery Plant and Falcon Sand Plant. Through its partnership with Diefenbach (another McLanahan Family company), Eagle Iron Works extends its portfolio to include Filter Presses and Thickeners for water recycling applications. Equipment is controlled via PLC-based operating systems including the Mark series controls and Digital DialSplit. All equipment is backed by an extensive dealer network offering 24/7 service, OEM parts, and field service support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CONDOR: CONDOR Fine Material Washers offer features similar to Eagle Iron Works Classic Screw Washers with outboard bearings, shaft dimensions, full-length curved plate, rising current plate and adjustable weirs. Built with an industry recognized Dodge TA II reducer.

Products and services

• Attrition Scrubbers High-intensity, grain-on-grain scrubbing equipment for minus 5mm x 0 solids. Uses turbine blade propellers to force material grains to constantly abrade each other while moving through the machine, removing deleterious coatings for aggregate processors.
• Blade Mills Pre-processing equipment designed to help aggregate producers begin liberating light, loamy clay or dirt from coarse rock and/or sand before further processing. Installed at a shallow slope of 0° to 5°.
• Classifying Tanks Water scalping and classifying tanks that remove large volumes of excess water from feed material, smooth out feed fluctuations, and produce consistent in-spec product. Features valve stations with hydraulic cylinders and collecting-blending flumes for hydraulic classification and reblending, with optional Rising Current Classifiers and fully automated sand reblending software (Digital DialSplit and Mark X controls).
• Coarse Material Washers Heavy-duty double or single screw washers that remove soluble clays and dust coatings encountered in natural and crushed stone applications through particle-on-particle scrubbing.
• Dewatering Screens Low-profile dewatering screens that take discharge from Fine Material Washers and lower moisture content to 7-10%, including the Eagle+ skid-mounted variant. Can be added to any brand of screw washer for a product ready to sell sooner.
• Falcon Sand Plants Highly efficient sand washing solutions for generating an in-spec product that is drip-free and ready for immediate sale. Each plant consists of a sump, pump, hydrocyclones, and dewatering screens.
• Filter Presses Liquid-solid separation equipment offered through the Diefenbach brand (a McLanahan Family of Companies partner), designed to withstand corrosive and challenging environments. Offered by Eagle Iron Works to complement water recycling and tailings management solutions.
• Fine Material Washers Single or double screw configuration washers that perform three related actions: washing, dewatering, and classification. Utilize roll and tumble action providing particle-on-particle attrition to remove deleterious coatings. Available as Classic Eagle Fine Material Washers (with Eagle Gear Reducer) and CONDOR sub-brand (with Dodge TA II reducer), both with outboard bearings, full-length curved plate, rising current plate, and adjustable weirs.
• Hawk Fines Recovery Plant Modular, compact plant consisting of a sump, pump, hydrocyclones, and dewatering screen that captures fine particles in the waste stream for recovery instead of sending to settling pond.
• Horizontal Screens Screening equipment ideal for high-tonnage applications and particularly efficient with wet and sticky feeds.
• Inclined Screens Screening equipment that excels in dry and coarse applications, using a combination of gravity and elevation to move material along the screen deck.
• Log Washers Heavy-duty scrubbing equipment for tough applications, featuring intermeshing oversized massive paddles that create rock-on-rock scrubbing action to remove tough, insoluble plastic clays.
• Pug Mill Mixers Mixing equipment used as cold-mix asphalt trains and hot-mix asphalt plants, for preparing stabilized base materials for roads and highways, and for mixing reagents with contaminated earth in soil remediation projects.
• Sol-Clay Washers Medium-duty scrubbing equipment effective in cleaning materials containing large amounts of stubborn soluble clays, as well as crusher fines and dust.
• Thickeners Liquid-solid separation equipment offered through the Diefenbach brand, designed with an innovative feedwell allowing for optimum distribution of flocculated solids. Offered by Eagle Iron Works for water recycling applications.
• Trek Portable Wash Plants Portable wash plants providing flexibility and mobility to move washing operations when and where needed, using long-lasting, field-proven wash equipment. Available as Trek TSP (Tank and Screw Plant) and Trek SSP (Portable Screen Screw Plants).
• OEM Spare Parts Genuine OEM replacement parts manufactured to original specifications, available through the dealer network. Parts increase operational life of equipment and guarantee function and quality.
• Field Service and Technical Support Trained field service personnel providing installation, startup, plant audits, maintenance operations, component repair, and replacement. Backed by a warranty team committed to quality and reliability.

Quantifiable outcome

• Equipment lasting 50+ years with gear reducers still operating smoothly
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered parent company, core partnership and regional dealer.

• McLanahan Corporationparent companyStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2012In November 2012, McLanahan Corporation purchased the assets of Eagle Iron Works. McLanahan has been a family-owned company since 1835 and is proud to have added Eagle Iron Works to its family of companies. The company continues Eagle's long history of product durability and quality while incorporating McLanahan's values.
• Diefenbachcore partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThrough a partnership with Diefenbach, a leading manufacturer of liquid-solid separation equipment since 1907 and another member of the McLanahan Family of Companies, Eagle Iron Works offers a range of Thickeners and Filter Presses for water recycling and tailings management. This complements EIW's Hawk Fines Recovery Plant.
• Mellott Companyregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMellott Company joined the EIW dealer network in March 2026. Headquartered in Warfordsburg, PA, Mellott sells and distributes EIW's washing and classifying equipment throughout North Carolina. Mellott has over 100 years of experience serving aggregate, slag, construction and environmental industries.
• ICM Solutionsregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorICM Solutions joined the EIW dealer network in September 2025. With eight locations across Utah, Nevada, and Southern Idaho, ICM sells and distributes EIW's complete line of washing and classifying equipment including classic equipment, Falcon, Hawk, and Diefenbach products.
• CT Fike Companyregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCT Fike Company joined the EIW dealer network in September 2025. Headquartered in Beckemeyer, Illinois, CT Fike sells and distributes EIW's washing and classifying equipment throughout Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois. CT Fike specializes in sales, support and service of dependable equipment brands for aggregate and mining industries.
• Dibble Equipmentregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDibble Equipment is EIW's equipment dealer in New Jersey, supplying wash plants to customers like Tuckahoe Sand and Gravel and Silvi Materials. Provides sales, support and service of Eagle equipment in the region.
• JW Bellregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorJW Bell is EIW's Iowa dealer. Sold Eagle Trek TSP and Fine Material Washer to Ideal Ready Mix Company. Provides sales and product support in the Iowa region.
• Mormak Equipmentregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMormak Equipment is EIW's dealer in British Columbia and Alberta provinces of Canada. Supplied wash plant upgrade to Fraser Valley Aggregates and has been working with customers for over a decade.
• Syscom BV Industrial Equipmentregional dealerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSyscom BV Industrial Equipment is EIW's dealer in the Netherlands. Assisted a long-time Eagle customer with replacing worn elements of an EIW screw while keeping existing gear reducer.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• EvoQuip: EvoQuip (a Terex brand) focuses on compact, modular aggregate processing equipment including washing and screening solutions targeted at smaller producers and contractors. As an emerging player, EvoQuip overlaps with EIW's Trek portable wash plant line in the portable/contractor segment of the market.

Broad incumbents

• Weir Group: Weir provides mining and infrastructure equipment, including dewatering, classification, and tailings management solutions that overlap with EIW's Hawk Fines Recovery Plant and water-recycling offerings acquired through Diefenbach. Weir serves a similar customer base in aggregates and minerals processing.
• Metso: Metso is a global leader in mining and aggregates processing technology, offering crushing, screening, washing, and classification solutions that compete with EIW in the aggregate and mining end markets. Metso's scale and global installed base make it the leading broad incumbent in EIW's category.
• Astec Industries: Astec Industries owns KPI-JCI, Telsmith, and other aggregate equipment brands, providing a broad portfolio of washing, classifying, and crushing equipment that competes with EIW. Astec's multi-brand strategy directly parallels what McLanahan is building with EIW and Diefenbach.
• Sandvik: Sandvik's Mining and Rock Solutions division supplies crushing, screening, and materials handling equipment used by aggregate and mining customers. While broader than EIW, Sandvik competes for similar specification wins on greenfield aggregate plants and for aftermarket service revenue.
• Terex Corporation: Terex is a diversified heavy equipment OEM with a broad aggregates and materials handling portfolio, including washing and classifying equipment that overlaps with EIW's offerings. As a much larger, publicly listed company, Terex offers both competitive products and a benchmark for valuation across the aggregate processing equipment market.

Direct peers

• McLanahan Corporation: McLanahan is the parent company of Eagle Iron Works and itself manufactures aggregate processing, sampling, and mineral processing equipment. The two share end customers, dealer relationships, and overlapping product categories (washing, screening, tailings management), making McLanahan both a sister company and the most direct product-line comparator.
• KPI-JCI: KPI-JCI (a brand of Astec Industries) designs and manufactures aggregate processing equipment including washing and classifying systems that directly overlap with Eagle Iron Works' classifying tanks, fine material washers, and dewatering screens for the same sand and gravel customers.
• CDE Group: CDE is a specialist in wet processing equipment for sand, aggregates, mining, and recycling, with modular wash plants that directly substitute for Eagle Iron Works' classifying tanks, fine material washers, and portable wash plants in many specification scenarios.
• Superior Industries: Superior Industries supplies crushing, screening, washing, and conveying equipment for the aggregate industry, including washing-classifying solutions that compete head-to-head with EIW's core product lines for sand and gravel producers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EIWLLC

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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