OUR SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS HAVE BEEN A FASCINATING JOURNEY. a milestone not often reached. I’ve been with Chantland 31 of those years, and while I know much about the company, I’ve learned even more as I researched our history in prepara- tion of celebrating our anniversary. In 1943, Al Chantland’s ideas took root on his central Iowa farm and have since grown across six conti- nents. His guiding principle, ‘Build quality equipment and back it up’, remains as the foundation of our company and our culture. We design, fabricate, test and prove conveying, packaging and pal- letizing solutions to improve the productivity of customers through- out the world — making mass… manageable. We are more than a manufacturer. We are a partner in your success. But let’s go back to the beginning. Around 1940,Tom Chantland and his son, Alfred, developed a superior open-pollinated variety of corn which led them to establish Chantland Seed Company, a seed processing plant, on their Badger, Iowa, farm. Their interest was not only related to corn but also forage crops, which led Al to design and build a gravity separator for grading alfalfa and clover seeds, and they soon established the Elton Seed and Milling Company in Badger. In 1943 Al designed and built his first conveyor for handling bags of seed, and that simple wooden framed conveyor is what eventually led to the formation of Chantland Manufacturing Company. Originally operating under the Chantland Seed Company name, Al began marketing and building the Elton Sack Stacker and Loader from the family’s farm shop. These conveyors were modeled after his original design while incorporating adjustable discharge height undercarriages with chain/ wood slats, then canvas/wood slats to convey bags of seed and feed when loading trucks and freight cars. He received his first patent for this design in 1946. It’s ADVERTORIAL