Heil Sells Truck Equipment Business

Heil Environmental, Chattanooga, Tenn., has sold its truck equipment business, consisting of the Heil Truck Equipment Group and Heil South distributorship to Truck Bodies and Equipment International Inc., a portfolio company of Kirtland Capital Partners.

The sale enables Heil to concentrate on building its core refuse business, according to a news release from the company. Based in Chattanooga, Tenn., Heil manufactures a full line of refuse collection trucks and recycling vehicles at its flagship manufacturing facility in Fort Payne, Ala. Parts Central, a Heil company, offers replacement parts for most refuse and recycling vehicle brands. Heil subsidiary Bayne Premium Lift Systems produces hydraulic refuse cart lifters in Greenville, S.C. Heil Europe manufactures refuse collection vehicles and replacement parts for the European market in Hillend, Scotland.

The Heil Truck Equipment Group manufactures and mounts a line of dump bodies, snow/ice bodies and hoists at its plant in Tishomingo, Miss. Products include the Yardbird Sidewinder and HPT dump bodies featuring the DuraClass design. Heil South is a company-owned truck equipment distributorship in Austell, Ga., selling and servicing dump bodies, hoists, roll-offs and knuckleboom loaders.

The sale includes Heil’s 204,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Tishomingo, the Heil South sales and service facility outside of Atlanta and the use of certain intellectual property, according to the news release.