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Masonry Construction, Hanley Wood
Cut Stones Creating Residential Masterpiece
A Harvard-educated geologist building a luxury home in Mendham, NJ discovered Block Shear online and used its pneumatic splitter to dramatically speed up the splitting of 320 tons of quartzite, one of the hardest stones to work.
May 2007
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Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
The Next Generation: Crush or Be Crushed
An industry overview of advances in compactor technology, featuring the Glosser Company’s patented gateless precrushing compactor and how next-generation machines were transforming waste disposal across industrial and commercial facilities.
June 1998
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Dynamic Business, Voice of Pennsylvania Businesses
Alternatives to Bankruptcy-Liquidation
Ray Lackner’s in-depth article on crisis and turnaround management, covering how innovative repositioning and restructuring strategies can help distressed companies avoid bankruptcy liquidation.
July / August 2009
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Environmental Solutions, Advanstar
New Waste Management System Keeps Engine-Parts Plant Purring
A case study of Textron’s turbine engine plant in Danville, PA, which adopted the Glosser CRUSHER to handle complex mixed-waste streams, achieve EPA compliance, and recoup its capital investment within 13 months.
October 1995
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Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
Compactor Disposes of Industrial Woes
How Parker Hannifin’s Wickliffe, Ohio plant replaced a 30-year-old open-top container system with the Glosser CRUSHER, cutting trash pulls from twice weekly to once a week and handling a far wider range of industrial waste streams.
July 1995
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Business Section
Trashing the Competition
Pittsburgh’s daily newspaper covers Lackner’s innovative wet-and-dry compactor system being field-tested at Giant Eagle stores. Fewer hauling trips, lower costs, more profit for the retailer.
July 1999
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Waste News, A Crain Publication
Trashing the Competition
Trade press coverage of Lackner’s wet-and-dry stationary compactor for the Giant Eagle grocery chain in Pittsburgh, reducing truck travel time and hauling costs through a novel liquid-separation design.
August 9, 1999
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Alternatives to Bankruptcy-Liquidation
Ray Lackner on turnaround strategies for distressed businesses, written for the sales and manufacturer’s representative industry.
January 2004
PDF Coming SoonThe Pittsburgh Press
Squeeze Play
An early feature on Lackner’s work developing industrial compactor technology in the Pittsburgh region, published in the year of the Pittsburgh Press’s final edition.
January 1992
PDF Coming SoonAbout Raymond Lackner
Raymond F. Lackner, CPA, President
Raymond F. Lackner has 30 years of hands-on management experience running a steel plate processing company, supplying component parts to industry and processing stainless steel and tool steel for the specialty steel industry. In 1990, Mr. Lackner founded a successful subsidiary company where he designed, marketed, and sold a new line of patent-approved industrial refuse compactors.
His industrial experience includes supervision of manufacturing activities, marketing, sales, research and development, licensing agreements, sale and acquisition of companies, and general responsibility for financial affairs, including banking, insurance, labor relations, accounting, and information technology. He also has extensive experience in industrial pump and motor distribution, steel warehousing, and ferrous and non-ferrous scrap processing.
Before establishing Consulting For Results LLC, Mr. Lackner served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Glosser Company, Controller/Treasurer of Tygart Industries, and Assistant Controller of National Steel Corporation’s Steel Service Division.
Mr. Lackner holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland, College Park, and completed his apprenticeship at Alexander Grant & Company, Certified Public Accountants (now Grant Thornton), Pittsburgh, PA office.
Professional References
Mark Unatin
Attorney, Buchanan Ingersoll
I have enjoyed working with Ray Lackner on various matters over the past several years including reorganizations, SBA loans, corporate acquisitions and patent matters. In most cases he developed, negotiated and implemented these transactions, always with defined priorities and high professional standards. His can-do pragmatic methods, in sometimes emotional settings, focused on finding common ground and closing the deal.
Pittsburgh, PA • 412-551-1867
Bernhard "Bud" Schaffler
Federal Bankruptcy Judge (Retired)
I contacted Alex Wolf Crisis Management, Montreal Canada, "alex-wolf.com" seeking his help to research for a class action suite I want to file against a Pittsburgh bank. Alex's associate in Pittsburgh was Ray Lackner. As it turned out I worked with Ray and his patent attorney Lawrence "Larry" Zurawsky on several occasions and I welcome assistance on this project.
Manahawkin, NJ • 609-709-3447
Ed Marchok
Manager of IT, Latrobe Steel
I consulted with Ray Lackner as he Developed of a proprietary "enterprise management" software, integrating order entry, production scheduling, purchasing, reserve inventories, work orders, bills of material, shop drawings, and personnel work assignments . This system tracked coordinated and tracked production through final assembly, shipping and invoicing -- resulting in a reduction of inventories, and of direct and indirect labor; also resulting in a dramatic improvement of quality, reduced lead times and increased profitability. I also worked with Ray on an integrated G/L, A/R ,A/P and Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet system that included Sales
Latrobe, PA • 724-539-8755
Chris Hutzell
Former Executive, Hesco International
After retiring from Hesco International in 1992 I worked on a consulting basis with Ray Lackner. I participated with him, as he as primary inventor and R&D; program manager / champion---- developed a comprehensive line of industrial equipment. He marketed and sold this unique class of patent approved refuse compactor and on that basis built a national company.
Cottondale, FL • 850-352-4498
Dan Besideck
National Engineering Sales, Odgen Steel Corporation
As national engineering sales of Odgen Steel Corporation I worked with Mr. Lackner in the development of steel plate fabrications to be used as substitutes for gray iron and steel castings. We jointly designed component parts for the mobile crane, crane ,tractor and forklift industries. The customers included Hyster, Yale, Grove Mfg., JLG and John Deer Company.
Chicago, IL • 219-921-6828
Stan Rumininski
Manager Field Operations, Waste Management, Inc. (1959-1988)
I approached Ray Lackner who ran a very high tech compactor company about an industry weakness. I asked him to develop a new system to be used in the collection of grocery story waste. The design for a liquid separation compactor was quickly developed and the new system solved a 40 year old inefficiency. The new compactor allows the hauler to switch out the container thus eliminating dead hauls.
Chicago, IL • 630-789-3433
U.S. Patents
Raymond Lackner holds six U.S. patents spanning nearly two decades of invention across two distinct industries. Four of his patents, filed between 1991 and 1998, represent a progressive body of work in industrial refuse compaction developed during his years at the Glosser Company in McKeesport, PA. Starting with the foundational integrated precompacting design in 1993, each successive patent refined the core technology: improving the ram mechanism, solving jamming problems, and ultimately adding liquid disposal capability to handle wet waste streams that conventional compactors could not. These patents were licensed and put into production, with the CRUSHER system adopted by Fortune 500 manufacturers including Parker Hannifin, Textron, Frito-Lay, and Ford Motor Company.
His fifth patent covers a racheted nut assembly that solves the practical problem of tightening fasteners in confined spaces where a standard wrench cannot complete a full rotation. His sixth and most recent patent, granted in 2010, is the one most directly relevant to Block Shear: the apparatus and method for splitting masonry materials that became the engineering foundation for the Block Shear stone splitter line sold to masons and landscapers worldwide.
Patent No. US 6,067,900
Trash Compactor with Liquid Disposal
A compactor with a separable storage container that isolates liquid from compacted solid waste into a dedicated reservoir. Solids and liquid are emptied separately at the disposal site, eliminating the cost of hauling liquid by weight.
View Patent →Patent No. US 7,708,005
Apparatus and Method for Splitting Masonry Materials
The foundational patent behind the Block Shear stone splitter: a frame with a vertically moveable table and paired upper and lower blades that apply precise, controlled force to split stone and masonry cleanly without hammers or chisels.
View Patent →Patent No. US 5,851,096
Racheted Nut Assembly
A ratcheted nut assembly that allows a nut to be fully tightened onto a bolt in confined spaces where a standard wrench cannot complete a full rotation, solving a common problem in industrial equipment assembly and maintenance.
View Patent →Patent No. US 5,816,145
Trash Compactor
An improved two-part ram compactor that simultaneously precompacts trash in an auxiliary chamber while compacting already-precompacted material in the main chamber, with a latch system that prevents jamming between the two ram parts.
View Patent →Patent No. US 5,193,455
Trash Compactor
A single-ram compactor that handles both precompaction and final compaction stages in sequence, an early iteration of the integrated two-stage compacting system that became the foundation for subsequent patents.
View Patent →Patent No. US 5,181,463
Integrated Precompacting Trash Compactor
The original integrated precompacting design: a single ram that simultaneously precompacts trash in an auxiliary chamber and compacts precompacted material in the main storage chamber, dramatically improving efficiency over conventional systems.
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