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November 3, 2017
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Papé sells equipment for every farmer’s needs
By GEOFF PARKS
For the Capital Press
Corporate Products Spe-
cialist Carl Laux of the Lar-
don Road site of Papé Ma-
chinery in Salem explains
that his lofty title merely
means he focuses on all of
the specialty products the
company carries, which are
many and varied.
Those products — rang-
ing from windrowers to
combines, nut and grape
harvesters and sprayers —
include equipment to han-
dle “just about everything
we do in this valley, most
of it specialized,” Laux
said.
Papé’s roots go back to
1938, when E.C. Papé start-
ed the company. It passed
down to Dean and Edward
Papé in the 1960s, and in
1990 Randy Papé expand-
ed the business to form the
Papé Group of Companies.
The fourth generation
of the Papé family, Jordan,
became CEO in 2013, and
Ryan Papé currently is in
charge of the agricultural di-
vision of the company.
Papé Machinery has 24 ag
locations “when it comes to
equipment sales,” Laux said,
and a total of 93 in the six
Western states of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Califor-
nia, Nevada and Montana.
The company sells sev-
eral well-known brands of
equipment, including John
Deere, Stihl and Honda, plus
many lines of used equip-
ment.
Laux said the company
currently features two for-
eign-made brands built spe-
cifically for the wine grape
and nut harvests.
Of those machines, Laux
said Papé Machinery in Sa-
lem also specializes in sales
of Italian-built Monchiero
harvesters.
“It’s the only self-pro-
pelled harvester that is de-
signed specifically for ha-
zelnuts,” he said. “It’s an
all-in-one unit that sweeps
and harvests in one pass. We
have been the exclusive im-
porter for Monchiero for the
past three years.” He noted
that Papé has “a dozen of the
machines in the field right
now.”
Other specialized equip-
ment promoted by Papé is
the French-built Pellenc
wine grape harvester, of
which 16 are in the Willa-
mette Valley’s fields during
the height of this fall’s har-
vest.
“We have all of Oregon
for the Pellenc products and
all of the Western United
States for the Monchiero
equipment,” he said, adding
that Papé Machinery also
features specialty equipment
from over 130 companies
that sell sprayers, harvesters
and other equipment.
Papé also provides train-
ing for customers.
“We feel that’s very im-
portant to make sure that
customers and employees
are trained on every piece
of equipment we sell,”
he said.
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Geoff Parks/For the Capital Press
Papé Machinery has many locations in the West and is a vendor at the Willamette Valley Ag Expo.
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