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Gomaco Corporation , a manufacturer for the construction industry, is a world wide leader in concrete paving technology. Gomaco Corporation was established in 1965, and since then, the company has successfully marketed products in the U.S., with expansions into Canada in 1969, and further expansions into other foreign markets in following years. Since the start of Gomaco, the company’s designs and concepts have pioneered many aspects of slip forming concrete construction. Gomaco was instrumental in the development and marketing of the concrete slip forming concept, which has had significant impact on the economics of concrete construction. The slip form concept has provided higher productivity per man-hour, greater efficiencies in material usage, less traffic congestion per job, and more appealing finished product per dollar invested by the public. Harold Godbersen started his own construction firm n Ida Grove, Iowa, in 1938. In 1946, Harold Godbersen established Godbersen-Smith Construction Company in Ida Grove. He took his ideas and innovations from many years of work, and in effort to share those ideas, he took a step further than just his own construction business. He integrated these ideas into Gomaco Corporation, which was established in 1965, by Harold Godbersen and his son, Gary Godbersen, as a division of Godbersen-Smith Construction Company. Harold Godbersen had created a double oscillating screed finisher, and in the early 1960’s, those machines were built by his construction firm and rented out to Iowa contractors for concrete bridge deck finishing. When state specifications in Iowa incorporated the use of the finisher, regional contractors began buying the machines, creating a market for this product. Gomaco started with three employees, manufacturing and selling the finishers, meeting needs in the bridge market. Soon after, contractors in the Midwest began buying the finishers and more states’ specifications incorporated the use of the machines. At the same time, Gomaco established a nationwide distributor network for sales in the United States. In 1966, Gomaco created a cone drum or cylinder finisher to meet the needs for skewability and finishing wider bridge decks for freeways. That machine was introduced as the forerunner of today’s C-450 concrete finisher, which was introduced in 1969. Out of all the machines manufactured by Gomaco, the C-450 concrete finisher made them a recognized name in the construction industry in the late 1960’s. For contractors to use the C-450 concrete finisher, states first had to grant approval. In 1969, the company expanded the product line to meet the needs of the city street and secondary paving markets with the development of an enlarged C-450 on tracks with the 550 slipform paver. Engineers were also working on prototype machines that would revolutionize the construction industry.