McDonald Services President Jim McDonald is looking to the future in order to plan expansion and likes what he sees. Already the Charlotte, North Carolina firm has followed the Food Lion grocery chain (Salisbury, NC) into Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and Pennsylvania by supplying vertical balers for their national expansion program.

Jim McDonald's experience in industrial machinery began as a heavy equipment repairman in a scrap metal yard. As Jim's experience grew, local operators of industrial services began to seek him out for repair services on electrical and hydraulic equipment not available from any other source.

Due to the increased demand of Jim's expertise, McDonald Services would be formed in April 1983. Jim's new company began servicing balers, conveyors, auto ties, and all forms of solid waste handling equipment. As McDonald Services grew, the company found themselves working on every type of baler in the market. At one time, MSI was maintaining approximately seven hundred machines. This workload allowed Jim McDonald to amass more technical knowledge than anyone else in the industry.

Soon thereafter, McDonald Services began building their own line of balers and in July 1986, McDonald Services delivered the 1^st of what was to become a successful line of vertical balers.

In the early months of 1991, Jim McDonald began manufacturing horizotal balers with 'piggy back' shredders for the news industry. Jim states that "[MSI] brought modern baler technology to an entire industry that was being overlooked by other manufacturers."