Brent Beachy

President Clyde Industries

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Brent Beachy is President of Clyde Industries, the Atlanta company that designs and makes sootblowers, port cleaners and other boiler cleaning and monitoring equipment for pulp and paper mills, power plants and other industrial boilers. He has led it since February 2021, when its board appointed him Chief Executive Officer, and he took it through its sale to Kadant Inc., which completed a $175 million cash acquisition in October 2025. Clyde had revenue of $92 million in its fiscal year to February 2025 and about 400 employees. Before Clyde he was Senior Vice President of Sales at Schenck Process and, before that, President of Raymond Bartlett Snow, which was sold to Schenck Process in 2018 while he was its President.

Career Highlights

• President of Clyde Industries, now a Kadant company, heading its executive management team.
• Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Clyde Industries by its board on February 22, 2021.
• Signed, as Chief Executive Officer, the October 7, 2025 agreement under which Kadant acquired Clyde Industries for $175 million in cash.
• Senior Vice President of Sales at Schenck Process.
• President of Raymond Bartlett Snow, the Naperville, Illinois maker of size reduction, classification and thermal processing equipment, when Arvos Group agreed to sell it to Schenck Process in 2018.
• Holds a BS in Economics from Allegheny College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business.

Professional Journey

Beachy studied economics at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and took an MBA at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business. His career, which Clyde describes as more than thirty years of industrial sales, marketing and operations management, has been spent in engineered equipment for process industries.

He became President of Raymond Bartlett Snow, a Naperville, Illinois business that designs, manufactures and builds size reduction, classification and thermal processing equipment, with operations in Brazil and India. RBS was then a division of Arvos Group, owned by the private equity firm Triton. In May 2018 Arvos agreed to sell RBS to Schenck Process, and Beachy, named in the announcement as President of RBS, said he was “very excited to welcome Schenck Process as a new owner.” He subsequently served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Schenck Process.

Clyde Industries itself was formed in 2019, when Clyde Bergemann Power Group carved out its pulp and paper business and sold it to Wynnchurch Capital. The business traces its roots to a family sootblower maker founded in 1924, and through a series of acquisitions it had absorbed Anthony-Ross, known for recovery boiler port cleaning, and the sootblower assets of Copes Vulcan. On February 22, 2021 the board appointed Beachy Chief Executive Officer, with chairman Frank Hayes saying the board expected him to grow the company “organically, and through future acquisitions.” Danny Tandra, who had been interim President, stayed on in a permanent President role.

On October 7, 2025, Kadant Inc., the Westford, Massachusetts supplier of industrial processing technology, completed its acquisition of Clyde Industries Holdings and affiliates for $175 million in cash, bringing the company into Kadant’s Industrial Processing segment. Beachy signed the purchase agreement for Clyde as its Chief Executive Officer and said the company was “proud to become part of a global industrial leader.” Clyde’s own site now lists him as President at the head of its executive management team.

Education

Allegheny College

BS, Economics

University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business

MBA