Concentric, formerly Iowa Export-Import, connects retail, wholesale and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) customers with the value of global sourcing for products in agricultural, construction, industrial, lawn and garden, professional turf and utility equipment.
Founded in 1983 by John Ruan, who also founded Ruan International in Des Moines, Iowa, our staff includes salespeople, engineers, logistics specialists, technicians, copywriters, and accountants who specialize in the introduction and implementation of products. In addition to sales, our staff routinely performs extended services in both international and domestic markets. With our full-service warehouse centrally located in Des Moines, Iowa, products can be shipped efficiently to any destination.
Concentric serves as a single-point-of-contact for our customers. We remove all the barriers and potential headaches from global sourcing. We often integrate fully into our customers’ manufacturing and supply networks, creating exceptional visibility and seamless flow of products and parts. We also partner with customers to overcome their new challenges, including continuous product improvement as well as new product engineering, design, development and production.
Since 1983, Concentric International (formerly Iowa Export-Import) has helped create revenue for customers throughout North America by developing and supplying globally sourced, high-quality products and components. With decades of experience and relationships around the world, Concentric provides end-to-end service, including product development and improvement, rapid prototyping, currency exchange, supply chain integration, warehousing and more.
Located in Des Moines, Iowa, Concentric International is a leader in supplying products and services to the agricultural, construction, industrial, lawn and garden, professional turf and utility equipment industries.
History
Concentric was originally founded as Iowa Export-Import in 1983 by Des Moines businessman John Ruan, a global visionary ahead of his time. In 1983 — as the Internet was in its infancy and a decade before the rise of the World Wide Web — Ruan saw the full potential for international trade and founded Iowa Export-Import to connect American companies with international markets (export) and products (import).
Initially, Iowa Export-Import did the difficult, complex work of navigating international protocols, cultural customs and regulatory and legal requirements to connect importer with exporter. In 1986 we began to make and market our first globally sourced product, rubber teeth made in South Korea for agricultural equipment and other uses. Today Concentric is the world’s number one provider of rubber-to-metal molded teeth for handling forage, food crops, debris, stover and other materials.
As international trade evolved and become more and more open and commonplace, the need for a company that specialized on connecting importer and exporter diminished. With many companies simply creating in-house capabilities to open international markets, Iowa Export-Import began to evolve toward becoming a global supplier of products and parts. The addition of our power transmission product line in 1990 signaled this growing emphasis.
With rubber teeth and power transmission parts on our product roster, Iowa Export-Import saw a need to supply other high-wear parts of agricultural and similar industrial equipment and started making and marketing seats in 1995. Today we are the leading supplier of replacement seats in the categories we serve.
Continuing to look for opportunities to supply more parts of the machinery we were already helping build led to the addition of our electrical and control solutions group in 2003. Today the primary product, linear actuators, is used in dozens of commercial and custom applications around the world.
As our product lines expanded and evolved, so did our capabilities for creating customized products. Our company renamed itself Concentric in 2012 to signify our growing focus on integrating fully with customers to help engineer, design and produce internationally sourced parts and products, while maintaining and constantly improving our traditional product lines.
Products with exceptional quality and value
Concentric supplies retail, wholesale and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) markets with seats, rubber teeth, electrical systems and power transmission product for agricultural, construction, industrial, lawn and garden, professional turf, and utility equipment.
We work with our long-standing global manufacturing partners to bring customers exceptional quality and value. Concentric takes responsibility for every piece and part being manufactured at the highest quality and to each wholesale and OEM customer’s exacting standards. Your satisfaction is always guaranteed. No excuses.
A state-of-the-art research, development and product testing lab keeps our products at the top of the industry. Concentric also works directly with wholesale and OEM customers to develop variations of existing products and entirely new components to meet their unique needs. For more information on how Concentric can create new components that help drive revenue
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