The Sherman Group is a carefully selected entrepreneurial investment group from Fort Wayne, Indiana. With 150 years of combined experience in heavy manufacturing as a foundation, they are actively searching for complementary, metal-related manufacturing opportunities in the Midwest. The focus of the Sherman Group is identifying companies with potential for growth; acquiring these companies; reorganizing and maximizing each; and creating a dynamic, synergistic conglomerate that will not only expand the economy of Northeast Indiana but also strengthen the manufacturing base of the region.In this, the year of Deister Concentrator’s 100th anniversary, the Sherman Group is focused on returning this company to its once-held role as the leader in the ore separation industry. As it is with its other acquisitions, involvement with Deister and the Sherman Group is involvement with vision, with success, with integrity, and, most of all, with the future.In the days of the great Alaska Gold Rush early in 1906, Emil Deister, an immigrant from Germany, perfected and patented a seemingly simple concept in a shaking separation table which changed the history of a region and helped to bring fortunes to a new turn-of-the-century generation of miners.The new idea included pooling and body separating riffles running diagonally to the flow of the material. No other system separates so efficiently or so completely.