Sheffield based Sukup Manufacturing Company is acquiring Ramco Innovations, a West Des Moines company that specializes in factory automation. Sukup is the world’s largest family-owned manufacturer of grain storage, grain handling and grain drying equipment. Emily Schmitt, Sukup’s Chief Administrative Officer, says Ramco has been a high-tech vendor since 1998.
Schmitt says Ramco has done work at Sukup facilities in Sheffield, Manly and Hampton.
Hank Norem, Ramco’s CEO, will be chief innovation officer for a new division of the Sheffield company called Sukup Innovations. Ramco’s 65 employees will continue to work at Ramco’s facility in West Des Moines.
Schmitt’s family recently discovered the original drawings her grandfather and company founder Eugene Sukup made of his first inventions. Sukup has more than 800 employees.
