Robert Hagler, President
Email : bobhagler@haglersystems.com
After graduating with an engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1981, Bob spent three years as maintenance engineer with IMC Phosphates in Mulberry, Florida and then joined a GIW division in Mulberry as a sales engineer.
In 1987, Bob, along with three associates, established a contracting company which he later sold to form a representative business, Carolina Industrial Pumps, for GIW. CIP changed to Hagler Engineering (now Hagler Systems, Inc.) and the dredge division was established to serve the North American market.
Bob’s experience includes pump design and analysis, booster station design, as well as slurry transportation design and is currently working on the coastal restoration project of Sandy Hook, NJ. He also oversaw a project for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Starke Florida, that realized savings through the collaborative design efforts of Hagler Systems and GIW. The engineering department customized an underwater pump application that did not require stuffing box packing or seal water. In 2003, Bob participated in the EPA Sponsored Workshop on Long Distance Pipeline Transport of Dredged Material to Restore Coastal Wetlands of Louisiana. He was the co-author and presenter of the presentation, “Slurry Pipeline Design, Testing and Practice.”
Bob managed the successful break-through project of White Rock Lake, Dallas, TX in 1998 which involved the designing and building of the transportation system (dredge slurry from the lake through a 104,000 ft. long pipeline) and the dredge itself. Hagler Systems acted as liaison between GIW and Oscar Renda Contracting and designed the transport system. It was an $18 million project that many people in the dredging industry said could not be done.
David Hagler, Vice President,
Email: davidhagler@haglersystems.com
David graduated from Georgia Tech in Industrial Management in 1989. He joined GIW’s sales engineering department in 1990. He spent two years at the GIW Mulberry office, where he was responsible for sales to the sand and gravel industry, then moved to Germany to assist in slurry pump sales. Moving back to the U.S., he became responsible for the Canadian and Atlantic coast regions.
Recently, David oversaw the implementation of the PCS Blend Pump Project in Aurora, NC which involved redesigning the pipeline and replacing Clay Bend pumps with GIW pumps. PCS’s pipelines consist of 26,000 to 28,000 ft. of 34-inch HDPE pipe, depending on discharge point. He also manages pipeline analysis for such customers as Syncrude Canada and SunCor Energy.
David is responsible for all projects for the sand plant and mining plant customers. This includes managing all projects for Foster Dixiana, such as the 2001 design and building of a 7500 ft 10” pipe line, 200 TDH at their Columbia process plant. The pipeline, like the 5 mile 20” pipeline designed and built in 1999 by Hagler Systems for the Bureau of Reclamation at Yuma, is totally automated. He also oversaw the design and building of a totally automated booster station (18x18 WBC46) for Southwind Construction, Evansville IN.
Benjamin Hagler, P.E, Vice President,
Email: benhagler@haglersystems.com
After graduating from Georgia Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering, Ben worked with the automotive casting supplier Intermet-Archer Creek Plant in Lynchburg,Virginia. He then joined GIW’s engineering department, and was transferred to Germany for two years to help introduce the GIW slurry pump to the European market. He then became European Regional Manager for GIW and was responsible for marketing GIW slurry pumps in Europe and representing dredge pumps to the Dutch and Belgian dredging contractors.
At Hagler Systems, Ben has designed complete booster stations for such customers as Barnstable County, MA, Eagle North America, Carolina Sand and King Fisher Marine.
Recently, Hagler Systems provided components for Seattle-based Manson Construction Company Construction (winner of the Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division 2004 Contractor of the Year award) for their new 12,000 cubic foot hopper dredge. Hagler Systems worked with GIW to provide three dredge pumps and three jet pumps. Ben was responsible for the design and overseeing the fabrication of the bases for the pumps. Hagler Systems also managed the installation of a bow discharge system, hopper nozzles and dragheads supplied by VOSTA.LMG.
