TRADESTAR Celebrates 45th Anniversary and Grand Opening of World Class Facility

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA – On October 29, 2013, Tradestar Corporation and friends gathered to celebrate its 45th year of building mining equipment and the grand opening of its world class truck facility.

Tradestar has a long history of designing, building and maintaining commercial explosive manufacturing equipment. Through Tradestar’s innovation, the company developed the explosive industry’s first bulk delivery equipment to pump slurry mix explosives—revolutionizing the industry. By working closely with its customers to customize and design proprietary and ground-breaking technologies, Tradestar has become known as a reliable and innovative manufacturing and service partner.

Tradestar will also celebrate the opening of its world class truck facility. “Our facility opens doors to new markets for us. It gives us significantly expanded capability and capacity to quickly respond to the changing industry landscape and deliver high quality products with our state of the art facility,” says Lincoln Hirayama, General Manager of Tradestar. “We are well positioned to take advantage of additional markets and are excited to expand and grow the business. Many lean production and management principles were incorporated into the facility from concept to final build. The workforce continues to transform this work space through application of these principles,” he added.