SCREEN USA

SINCE 1973

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SCREEN USA

SINCE 1973

GET A QUOTE
Smyrna, Georgia — Since 1985

We Sell Solutions.
Not Equipment.

Screen USA has been sizing and distributing portable recycling equipment for contractors since 1985. We are the largest and oldest new and used portable recycling equipment business in the industry. We are not order takers. We ask what you are trying to do, what you need to produce, and what your budget is. Then we tell you straight.
“My grandfather started in Clarksburg, WV in the 1940s. My father brought it to Georgia in 1973. I started Screen USA in 1985. This business is in our blood.”
Rick Cohen’s father was a structural engineer. He moved the family to Smyrna, Georgia in 1973 to open a steel fabrication shop — Construction Steel Inc. — as part of the family business that Rick’s grandfather had started in West Virginia decades before.
Rick had no interest in steel fabrication. What he wanted to build was a screening plant — an American-made one, at a time when almost every screening plant on the market came from Ireland. In 1985, with his father’s backing, Rick founded Screen USA. His brother-in-law Neal Kaisermann joined as a partner, and the two have run the business together ever since.
Rick’s uncle had been building screening equipment in WV since the late 1970s. The first machine Rick ever sold was a wash plant his uncle built. The first customers were Thomas and James Treat at Ace Sand Co. That picture is still hanging on the wall.

How We Got Here.

1940s
Grandfather founds steel fabrication in Clarksburg, WV
1973
Father opens Construction Steel Inc. in Smyrna, GA
1985
Screen USA founded. First American-made portable screening plant.
1998
GrinderCrusherScreen Inc. formed to sell used recycling equipment
2001
Went direct sales after 9/11. Closed steel fabrication. Focused entirely on screening.
2010s
Expanded into trommel screens, star screeners. Grew the owner-operator niche.
Today
53 years of combined family history in this industry. Still based in Smyrna.

What Separates Us From a Dealer.

We Carry Almost Every Brand.

We are not locked into one manufacturer. If a machine is not the right fit for your application, we will tell you — and we will tell you what is. Most dealers can only sell what they have on the yard.

We Had a Hand in Building What We Sell.

We work with our manufacturers’ engineers daily. We travel to their factories. We push changes into the design based on what we see in the North American market. If we know a machine can be made better, we say so — or we walk away from it. The GCB Golf Course Blender started as a sketch Rick drew on a napkin. We handed it to a manufacturer. They built it. It is now sold worldwide.

We Answer the Phone.

Contractors who have been buying from us for 20-plus years say the same thing: we answer our phones and we get them immediate answers. Our engineer Eric has driven to customer sites on weekends to get a machine running. Rick and Neal never missed a beat during COVID while the rest of the industry was in freefall. That is not a policy. It is just how we work.

In Our Own Words.

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We built Screen USA because the small owner-operator contractor needs a reliable company to assist them in buying the right machine for their specific application.
— Screen USA, Smyrna, Georgia
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When a contractor calls us, what they’re really getting is more experience than they can find anywhere else — and a reputable resource they can trust.
— Screen USA, Smyrna, Georgia
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Having input in the design means everything. Otherwise you are selling a flawed machine that you know can be made better.
— Screen USA, Smyrna, Georgia
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The question customers always ask is ‘How much?’ That is the wrong question. The right question is ‘What will this machine actually do for my operation?’
— Screen USA, Smyrna, Georgia
“We walked away from five years of work because they cheapened the machine. We will do it again.”
We spent five years working with one manufacturer on a shredder. Multiple trips overseas. Thousands of hours. The prototype ran well.
When they built the first stock machine, they cheapened it. Cut corners we had specifically told them not to cut. The machine was an embarrassment — and they insisted it was fine.
We walked away. Lost the time, the trips, the money. All of it.
At the end of the day, our name is on what we sell. Our customers expect quality, and we are not going to put a machine in front of them that we cannot stand behind. That standard has cost us relationships. It has also kept us in business for 53 years.
The Owner-Operator Market

The Industry Chased Big.
We Stayed Small.

For decades, the heavy equipment industry focused on building larger and larger machines. We went the other direction.
We have always believed the owner-operator contractor — the person running their own operation, buying their own equipment, making their own decisions — is the most important customer in this market. Not the largest. The most important.
Only in recent years has the industry started to agree. We have been serving this market since 1985.

Trade Shows & Associations

Con Expo | US Compost Council Show | AEM | Waste Expo

Press & Editorial

Featured in Construction Equipment Guide with multiple editorials over the years.

Applications (A Few Memorable Ones)

Screened compost at the Cleveland Zoo. Pre-processed materials for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Dead hogs. If there is a material, we have probably seen it.
“Knowledge is king. We are going to keep earning our business the old-fashioned way.”
The industry is moving toward order takers and search results. Customers Googling answers that are half true, buying from companies that are websites without walls.
Screen USA is going the other direction. We are adding product lines — larger crushers, larger screeners, a shredder line. We are looking at manufacturing in the US. We are expanding to serve all of North America.
The next generation is already in this business, bringing new tools to work that we did not have. We are building toward doubling in size without losing what got us here: knowledge, relationships, and the standard that a customer who is successful stays a customer.

Rick Cohen headshot or field photo

Rick Cohen

Founder
Rick founded Screen USA in 1985 after growing up in the family steel fabrication business. He has spent 40-plus years sizing equipment for contractors, pushing manufacturers to build machines that actually hold up in the North American market, and building a business around the owner-operator customer the industry largely ignored. He has operated the equipment he sells, watched it run in the field, and walked away from manufacturer relationships that did not meet his standard.

Neal Kaisermann headshot or field photo

Neal Kaisermann

Partner
Neal joined Rick as a partner and brother-in-law, and has been part of building Screen USA and GrinderCrusherScreen into the largest and oldest new and used portable recycling equipment business in the industry. Rick and Neal have run the business through recessions, 9/11, and COVID without missing a beat — keeping every dollar in the company and never compromising on what they would put their name behind.

53 Years in This Business.
Call the People Who Know It.

Screen USA. Smyrna, Georgia. We have been sizing equipment for contractors since 1985.
Call 770-433-2670
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