HeavyTech Featured in Power Progress Magazine: “Grinding Off the Rust Belt”
- HeavyTech Team
- Jul 1
- 2 min read
We’re proud to announce that HeavyTech has been featured in a major article by Power Progress Magazine, one of the leading voices in the future of industrial powertrain and off-highway equipment innovation. The article, titled “HeavyTech Wants to Grind Off the Rust Belt,” offers an in-depth look at our company’s roots, mission, technology, and the regional revival we’re helping drive from our home in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
📖 Read the full feature here:
A Startup with a Big Vision for Heavy Industry
The article details how HeavyTech is building a new generation of modular hybrid and electric construction machines—including compact track loaders, mini excavators, and articulated loaders—with the flexibility to switch between battery-electric and diesel hybrid power. Our approach focuses on electro-hydraulic power-on-demand systems, developed over 15 years by our CEO and co-founder Michael Terzo, to radically improve efficiency and performance.
“We’re launching this company and proving the products in front of the entire industry,” Terzo explains in the article. “We want everybody to share this experience and see what we’re doing, because a rising tide lifts all boats in the off-highway industry.”
🌎 Grounded in Fort Wayne, Built for Global Impact
The article paints a vivid picture of how HeavyTech is not only building machines, but also helping fuel a manufacturing and innovation revival in the Midwest. With our sights set on Electric Works, Fort Wayne’s historic 39-acre innovation district, we’re positioning HeavyTech at the center of a regional transformation—bringing high-skill jobs, clean tech, and real industrial momentum back to Indiana.
Nicholas Darrah, NEI Regional Partnership executive and HeavyTech board member, puts it simply:
“HeavyTech is going to be something that, 20 years from now, I can tell my grandkids I was part of — and it will be putting food on the table for generations of families.”
💥 More Than a Startup: A Movement
From a funding model rooted in Regulation Crowdfunding, to early support from local economic leaders and global commercial partners, Power Progress captures what makes HeavyTech unique: we're not just creating a new OEM—we’re proving that industrial innovation can thrive outside of Silicon Valley and Detroit, led by engineers and operators with a shared purpose.
“This is not just an OEM startup like we’ve already seen in the EV space,” Terzo told the magazine. “This is also an economic development. It’s moving technology forward from an industry standpoint... It’s not a traditional OEM and we’re starting in a completely non-traditional way.”
🏁 Why It Matters Now
Power Progress Magazine is a trusted resource for OEMs, Tier 1s, fleet operators, and engineering leaders in off-highway industries. Being featured in their coverage puts HeavyTech’s story directly in front of the audiences that matter most as we move into our prototype build phase and expand industry engagement.
The full article reflects not only what we’re building—but why it needs to exist, and why now is the time to make it real.
📢 Read the full article and share it with others who believe in rebuilding American manufacturing, accelerating clean tech, and empowering the next generation of off-highway innovation.
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