Hercules Fluid Power Group
The Hercules Fluid Power Group supplies a range of hydraulic seals, gaskets, cylinders and attachment kits for heavy mobile machinery applications.
The core Hercules Sealing Products ("Hercules") business based in Clearwater, Florida provides a next day delivery service throughout the US for seals and seal kits used in the repair of hydraulic cylinders. The products are used in a range of heavy mobile machinery applications, including heavy construction equipment, dump trucks and refuse collection, lift trucks and fork lifts. Hercules also supplies a range of replacement tie-rod cylinders to a similar customer base.
Hercules in Canada offers a similar range of products from its branch operations located in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. In Europe, Hercules has centred its operations in the Netherlands. The business has been re-located to a larger building and has built a good inventory of seal kit products for popular European heavy equipment models. Seal and seal kit catalogues in four languages are available.
Hercules locations: US (Clearwater, FL), Canada (Barrie, ON; Dorval, QC), China (Tianjin), Netherlands (Breda).
Bulldog Hydraulics & Gaskets ("Bulldog") supplies a range of gasket and seal kits for heavy duty diesel engines, transmissions and hydraulic cylinders used in off road and marine applications. Customers include equipment re-builders and the larger tractor parts distributors. Bulldog is based in Reno, Nevada but more than 75% of sales are to international customers outside the US.
Bulldog locations: Reno, NV
www.bulldogkits.com
HKX is based near Seattle, Washington State and supplies hydraulic kits used in the installation of attachments on excavators. HKX's colour coded kit systems with "lego-logic" instructions substantially reduce the time and engineering expertise required to install attachments.
HKX locations: Monroe, WA
www.hkx.com
RTD Seals, acquired in January 2009, suppliers Seals, O-rings and custom moulded and machined parts to a range of Industrial OEM customers, cylinder manufacturers and sub distributors.
RTD Seals locations: Minneapolis, MN and Chicago, IL
www.rtdygert.com