Crane Group: Screen Machine Industries, Crane Group deal helping Etna manufacturer expand

Screen Machine Industries has grown and diversified since its founding in 1966, when Steven Cohen's father Bernard started a small business selling house beams, handrails and other miscellaneous structural steel items. The business really took off when it started doing work for the coal mining industry. A contact introduced the elder Cohen to a local coal company that wanted American-made machines that separated coal into different sizes. Most of the machines were too light and foreign-made, making...