{"id":455,"date":"2012-12-17T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:12:52","slug":"anvil-attachments-wins-international-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/anvil-attachments-wins-international-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Anvil Attachments Wins International Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anvil Attachments, a Slaughter, Louisiana manufacturer of buckets and grapples has been recognized by <em>International Bulk Journal<\/em> (IBJ), winning the \u201cBest Grab\u201d category in the publication\u2019s 2012 awards.\u00a0\u00a0 Five Finalists were selected by an independent judging panel from more than 100 individual category entries, 28 different countries, and all five continents. The companies that made the shortlist were, Credeblug of Spain, Guven Machine and Grab,\u00a0Turkey, SMAG (Peiner) , Germany, Verstegen, Netherlands and Anvil Attachments.<!--more Continue reading--><\/p>\n<p>Anvil\u2019s team headed to Hamburg, Germany for the IBJ Awards presentation on November 19th, 2012. \u00a0Anvil Attachments took home the \u201cBest Grab\u201d award, the winner was chosen on the following criteria, \u201cThe judges will select a winner who consistently meets customer requirements for operationally efficient, cost-effective grabs. Aware that grabs should ideally be adapted to each bulk commodity, judges will look for the use of quality material in manufacture and innovative design in minimizing environmental damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anvil\u2019s president, Jon Craft stated, \u201cOver the past few years we have implemented new processes in our manufacturing to reduce cost and improve quality. Lean Manufacturing is now standard in our manufacturing process, which has allowed us to drastically reduce cost.\u201d Jon also installed Finite Element Analysis software in the engineering department and details that \u201cthe FEA software allows us to reduce the weight of a unit, while showing us any weak areas in design, this way we can perfect the design, before the first piece of steel is cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anvil Attachments is one of the oldest suppliers of Grabs, Grapples, and Clamshell Buckets for Bulk Material Handling. Anvil has been supplying products under various brand names since 1905.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More info.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anvilattachments.com\/news\/p\/_action\/detail\/item_id\/8\">More info.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anvil Attachments, a Slaughter, Louisiana manufacturer of buckets and grapples has been recognized by International Bulk Journal (IBJ), winning the \u201cBest Grab\u201d category in the publication\u2019s 2012 awards.\u00a0\u00a0 Five Finalists were selected by an independent judging panel from more than 100 individual category entries, 28 different countries, and all five continents. The companies that made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Anvil Attachments Wins International Award - Attachment News &amp; Announcements - Attachmart.com&#039;s Blog","description":"Anvil Attachments, a Slaughter, Louisiana manufacturer of buckets and grapples has been recognized by International Bulk Journal (IBJ), winning the \u201cBest Grab\u201d"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.attachmart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}