SMITH MANUFACTURING is the industry’s one-stop source for your surface preparation needs, from coating removal to concrete scarifying and traffic line removal. We have the solutions to help you REMOVE-FASTER, safer and more cost-effectively with better surface finishes.

Since 1990, SMITH Manufacturing has assured professional contractors, government agencies, manufacturers and distributors the very best in world-class stripe removers, ultra-premium-life cutters and wear components at the guaranteed best prices. Prior to founding SMITH Manufacturing, Steven Smith was President of Pave-Mark, a leading manufacturer of coatings and application equipment for the line removal industry and one of the first thermoplastic contractors.

Steven first introduced tungsten carbide cutter solutions for stripe removal.  The Smith name today is synonymous with ultra-premium quality and long lasting performance. Our suppliers and employees, with a combined century of coatings and removal experience, help our customers find solutions to their toughest surface preparation
problems now.

Today and in the future, we will challenge ourselves to exceed your expectations and deliver the removal solutions you need to start removing faster now. Thank you for your interest in SMITH Manufacturing’s world-class scarifiers and traffic line erasers. Our mission is to help grow the traffic line removal industry with our surface preparation parts and top-quality partners. As a direct manufacturer, we deliver a comprehensive line of traffic line removal equipment, carbide tipped cutters, ultra-premium grade tungsten carbide and hardened steel cutters, as well as replacement parts to do just that. Whether its vacuum systems, wire brushes, concrete planers, prep drums or road grinders that you are looking for, SMITH carries the products that you need, today and in the future. You can trust the SMITH name.

For your existing removers, our OEM replacement parts, scarifier drums and cutters out-perform the originals. In-house manufacturing of floor striper machines, cutters, rotary drum equipment, and custom surface grinder parts assures that our customers receive the highest-quality, ultra-premium, best performance and on-time delivery.

“SMITH considers manufacturing a core competency and one of the primary ways we are able to give customers an enormous advantage,” says Tim Podgwaite, VP of Operations. “All of our scarifying machines, road milling equipment, surface preparation equipment, prep drums, concrete profilers and coating removal equipment is and will always be custom built in house so we can deliver quality scarification equipment, reliably in the quantities needed by our customers. We are most proud of our research and development of new products while continuously improving our established product line. Solving customer’s removal problems is a challenge I take pride in and with our experienced personnel, flexibility and capabilities, we can ramp up quickly to meet our customers’ demanding schedules.”

We take pride in our ability to respond to customers with unusual surface-preparation problems. In fact, our products were developed in response to customers’ unique removal needs, such as line stripe preparation carbide cutter bits, non-groove cure removal and innovative cutter drums. If you do not see what you need in this catalogue or on our website, contact us, so we can source or develop it for you!

At SMITH we continue to improve our products and introduce new and innovative cutters and removal tools for use on the next generation of traffic line removal and surface preparation equipment. Now you can say goodbye to those unwanted pavement markings. Our goal is to help you remove faster, safer, more cost-effectively with better surface finishes. How can we help you? It’s not only how we answer our phone at SMITH, but our staff, as well as our concrete removal equipment, that are all commitment to providing you with uncompromised service.

Our customers count on SMITH to be their invaluable resource and we exceed their expectations by paying attention to the details to get it right the first time and to deliver product and/or the information they need the same day, without delay. As a quality responsible manufacturer of thermoplastic paint remover, wear parts, scabblers, crack routers, road planing bit and wire brushes, SMITH maintains the largest inventory of line stripe remover machines and consumable wear components.

We thank you for your trust and look forward to earning your on-going business. If you are not a customer now, we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate why our customers trust a SMITH scarifying machine as their one-stop removal solution source.