the holding company in 2010. Today, DSC Dredge, LLC
operates from three major manufacturing facilities located
in Reserve, Louisiana; Poplarville, Mississippi; and Green-
bush, Michigan.
The DSC Way
Since DSC’s inception, the company has delivered more
than 500 dredges. Bob Wetta explains further, “Up until
about 2005, the majority was domestic sales primarily in
the aggregate industry. Shortly after 2005, DSC expanded
into many export markets, now totaling over 45 countries.
Annual export sales soared as high as 70% in the years
since 2010. The export markets vary from environmental
dredging to mining with dredges.”
Last year alone, DSC had 21 major projects either in
production or delivered. But each is as unique as the hun-
dreds that preceded them, and the hundreds that are likely
to follow. Wetta says that’s no accident. DSC prides it-
self on providing a ‘customized’ service for its customers.
“DSC has manufactured the deepest sand mining dredge
in the western hemisphere, with a dredging depth capabil-
ity of 200 feet. DSC is just completing an aggregate dredge
that will dredge to 155 feet deep. DSC has built the newest
dustpan dredge. The list goes on and on, and we typically
add 2 to 3 builds like this per year,” said Wetta.
Those unique one-of-a-kind newbuildings are impor-
tant, but Wetta values his repeat business just as much,
saying, “DSC prides itself on repeat sales. We also weigh
heavily on our existing clients as references and to provide
success stories to prospective clients to help us attract new
business. One challenge is that our dredges are designed to
last +25 years, so sometimes it takes a while for the repeat
dredge to come back around. Fortunately, a lot of our cli-
ents have also grown their businesses, so we are afforded
the opportunity to sell new dredges to them for different
projects and or applications.”
DSC doesn’t just sell equipment. Training is always pro-
vided with a dredge sale, and at the same time, fi eld ser-
vices for additional training, new operator training and for
maintenance training. DSC offers classroom-style training
at a minimum of twice per year. That classroom-style tech-
nical training is offered to anyone in the dredging indus-
try; whether you own a DSC dredge or not.
Repeat Business: Standard Quality
One repeat customer underscores the value of a satis-
fi ed customer that also had new challenges. The winter of
2016 was an unusually harsh one for the Santa Cruz Small
Craft Harbor in Santa Cruz, CA. The DSC-built dredge
EQUIPMENT
Bob Wetta,
President/CEO
DSC Dredge