ABOUT OCEAN MACHINERY

Ocean Machinery, founded in Fort Lauderdale in 1989, is the premier one-stop shop for the steel fabricating machinery in Florida. Ocean Machinery also distributes the world class Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line made by Peddinghaus, through its extensive dealer network. Ocean Machinery carries an extensive range of premium steel fabricating machinery and provides outstanding customer service and technical support, something which sets us apart from the competition.  

Hunter Fry is the President and Founder of Ocean Machinery. Hunter has been in the metal fabricating industry since 1973.  Prior to starting Ocean Machinery, Hunter  worked for major manufacturers of structural steel fabrication machines. He then started his own machine tool dealership in Chicago. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the American Graduate School of International Management.  His engineering experience brings knowledge of production techniques from around the globe to your shop.  

As the Vice President of Ocean Machinery, Danny Steyn handles the Marketing of Ocean Machinery, the introduction of new products, and is responsible for the extensive Ocean Avenger Dealer Network that covers the entire USA selling the Ocean machines including the Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line, Ocean Liberator Beam Coping Machine, Ocean Terminator Band Saws for Structural Steel, and the Ocean Clipper CNC Clip Angle line. Danny is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from the University of Natal in Durban South Africa. Danny has over 20 years of manufacturing and engineering experience in a wide range of industries. He has extensive post graduate training in productivity and efficiency optimization. 

Our Sales Manager, Darryl Thornhill has an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Virginia Tech with a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Radford University.  His previous experience includes extensive sales and marketing with General Electric, Tyco International, AT&T Capital and NCR Corporation, where he excelled in sales and capital equipment financing of technology hardware, software and services. Darryl is responsible for the support of the Ocean Avenger Dealer Network selling the Ocean machines including the Ocean Avenger Beam Drill Line, Ocean Liberator Beam Coping Machine, Ocean Terminator Band Saws for Structural Steel, and the Ocean Clipper CNC Clip Angle line

Folker Krebs  is another tri-lingual addition to Ocean Machinery. Fluent in English Spanish and German, Folker handles our South Florida machinery sales. A mechanical engineering graduate from Venezuela, Folker immigrated to the USA in 2004. His deep experience in the steel fabricating industry as well as the machinery industry, in all aspects, from manufacturing, sales, service and support, makes him very knowledgeable in all aspects of the huge variety of machines he sells.

Jeff Sobel is Ocean Machinery's Director of Sales and Business
Development for Latin America, and is responsible for the development and support of the Latin America Ocean Dealer network. Jeff has held numerous roles in global business development with companies both large and small. Over the course of his career, Jeff  has travelled extensively through  Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Jeff has an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona and completed part of his MBA at Brazil's Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ - COPPEAD). He earned his bachelor's degree in International Business from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeff's Portuguese and Spanish language skills are invaluable to this position.

Luis Pena is our wonderfully enthusiastic and competent Service Engineer. Luis previously worked at HAAS Automation on their full range of CNC machinery including their latest 5-axis machines. Luis is fully conversant with both PLC and PC controlled CNC equipment. Prior to HAAS, Luis was a project manager at a automated beverage canning and bottling plant where keeping the machines in perfect order for the 24 hour 3-shift production was his top priority. Luis Studied Electronic Engineering at DeVry University in New Jersey.

Karen Castorina is our Director of First Impressions, and is the wonderful helpful voice you hear when you call our offices. Karen handles all our Office management and assists in Internal Sales. Karen's knowledge of all things related to structural steel fabricating machinery and beam drill lines is amazing. Karen is the glue that holds the company together.