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Machinery ManufacturingOregon, United States51-200 Employees
Peterson, an Astec Brand, is a mid-sized machinery manufacturer based in Eugene, Oregon, with roots dating to Wilbur Peterson & Sons, a heavy construction firm that broadened into equipment manufacturing to support land-clearing work. The company develops equipment for wood processing and waste recycling, including whole-tree chippers and debarkers, horizontal grinders, and blower trucks and trailers used in soil amendment and landscape applications. Its history traces the evolution from an initial portable Delimber-Debarker to a line of wood waste recycling machines, with grinders capable of producing up to 150 tons per hour. In 2001 Peterson acquired the manufacturing rights for the BloTech line of blower trucks, broadening its reach into soil erosion and landscape markets. In 2007 the company was acquired by Astec Industries, and in 2019 it launched the 1700D horizontal grinder as part of ongoing product development.