Aaron Equipment Company, Inc. Turns Heads in the Process Equipment Industry, Inspiring Latest Orange County Chopper

Aaron Equipment Company, Inc. Turns Heads in the Process Equipment Industry, Inspiring Latest Orange County Chopper

BENSENVILLE, Ill., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest Orange County Chopper is bringing celebrity status to the process equipment industry, with an innovative custom-bike design inspired by plastics, pharmaceutical, chemical and food processing machinery.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081015/CLW039 )

Created for Aaron Equipment Company, Inc., headquartered in Bensenville, Ill. near Chicago, the latest custom bike from Orange County Choppers debuts nationally October 16th at 9 p.m. ET on TLC's hit series American Chopper. Aaron is an international buyer, seller and trader of used and reconditioned process equipment.

Elements of heat exchangers, double-cone V blenders and sigma blade mixers have never looked as good as they do on the Aaron Chopper. "We hope to inspire innovation throughout our industry and industries we serve, from packaging to renewable fuels," said Michael Cohen, one of the owners of Aaron Equipment Company, Inc. "The Aaron Chopper is about beautiful functionality, and highlights a range of equipment. We're glad to share its great detail through a complete set of images." You can access these photos through www.aaronequipment.com/AaronBike.html.

Teaming up with Orange County Choppers' famous Teutul family -- Paul Sr. and sons Paul Jr. and Mikey -- came as a natural fit for Aaron, since both companies develop innovative solutions for their customers, and both are family-run.

The Teutuls drew inspiration for the bike by visiting Aaron's massive North American headquarters, which has more than 30 acres of used and reconditioned process equipment. Everything from centrifuges to plastic extruders and tanks is available, making up one of the largest inventories of process equipment in the industry.

"Customers often come in and tell us 'I feel like a kid in a candy store,'" said Cohen. The chopper's custom appearance includes a gas tank designed to look like a pressure vessel, and equipment-inspired looks for the exhaust, spokes, and other bike components. The bright blue and orange of the Aaron logo make up the color scheme.

Aaron Equipment Company, Inc. provides customers in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, plastics, chemical, and other industries with quality process equipment and dependable service. For information, visit www.aaronequipment.com, or call 630-350-2200.

About Orange County Choppers

Orange County Choppers started as a sideline to the family's steel manufacturing business, which was founded in the 1970s. In the late 1990s, Paul Teutul Sr. began building custom motorcycles as a hobby and in 1999 he and his son, Paul Jr. founded Orange County Choppers. Their first bike, 'True Blue,' debuted at the 1999 Daytona Biketoberfest.

Now headquartered in Newburgh, NY, Orange County Choppers is regarded as one of the world's premier builders of custom motorcycles and recently launched a production line of bikes. The OCC brand has become one of the most recognizable brands in the world and has also produced a wide array of merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, diecasts, assorted novelty items, guitar accessories and more.

The OCC shop is featured on American Chopper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chopper>, a reality television series that chronicles the lives of the OCC crew as they battle impossible deadlines to create outrageous custom chopper creations. The show, which has contributed to OCC's quick rise to fame, debuted in September 2002 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2002> on the Discovery Channel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Channel>. American Chopper now airs on Discovery Channel's sister station, TLC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLC_(TV_channel)>, on Thursday nights at 9pm ET / 8pm CT. For more information, visit www.orangecountychoppers.com and www.occmotorcycles.com.

Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081015/CLW039
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Source: Aaron Equipment Company, Inc.

CONTACT: Mel Marzan, +1-630-323-0555, mel@waltdenny.com, for Aaron
Equipment Company, Inc.

Web site: http://www.aaronequipment.com/
http://www.aaronequipment.com/AaronBike.html
http://www.orangecountychoppers.com/
http://www.occmotorcycles.com/

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