Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co. Promotes Hopper, Moore

Russ Hopper

December 22, 2011–Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co., Lexington, Ky., has promoted Russ Hopper to vice president, manufacturing, and promoted Don Moore to vice president, design engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Hopper began working at Link-Belt 36 years ago as a welder and quickly moved into the supervisory ranks within welding production. He continued to take on more management responsibilities and was named production manager for all processes. In that position, Hopper played a vital role in the conversion of the production organization into the Link-Belt Production System using Lean Kaizen tools and philosophies.

After graduating from Ohio State University in 1977, Moore joined Link-Belt as an associate design engineer in the Tower Gantry Crane Product Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He then moved to the Lattice Boom Crawler Product Group, where he became a senior design engineer. In 1986, Moore transferred to Lexington when that facility began manufacturing lattice products. Since then, Moore has managed various design functions including hydraulic cranes, on-highway carriers, and, most recently, all lattice and telescopic crawler products.