Posted on August 10, 2025
Over the last year, Ellicott Dredge Enterprises, “Ellicott” has quietly been transforming and with the word growth emerging as a common theme across the business – in every department and operating location. Since the first of the year, Ellicott has been adding to the team across the board. Changemakers have joined the company in every department: Operations; Warehouse; Engineering; Field Service; Sales; and Finance – Ellicott is hiring.
With four-industry leading brands, supplying auger and cutter suction dredges around the world, it goes without saying that the need to grow the Ellicott team has been driven by high demand for Ellicott®, Mud Cat®, IMS®, and GeoPool® equipment. The robust, high-quality dredges our customers expect are the result of our passionate team, who thrive on challenges while building the world’s best dredges.
The number of truckloads leaving Baltimore and New Richmond is a testament to the hard work being done at EDE – over 90 truckloads have shipped to customers in 2025. These shipments have included standard and custom dredges of every model size offered by Ellicott’s brands. Deliveries have been made to customers both domestically and internationally.
Recent Dredge Deliveries
Ellicott Dredges provides custom electric dredges and conversions of standard models, like this Electric Series 460SL Swinging Dragon® dredge for a water management project operating behind a hydroelectric dam.
The highly flexible and one-truck-transportable self-propelled IMS® 7012 HP dredge offers the highest production capacity in its class, with two units being delivered to a Texas sand mine to ensuring simultaneous dredging of multiple locations in a large pond.
The newest EDE brand, GeoPool® dewatering systems, is rapidly growing its presence in the mining, wastewater, and industrial dewatering sectors, with recent deliveries to Indonesia and the U.S.
By supplying both diesel and electric auger dredges from ready-stock or designed to fit unique project requirements, the Mud Cat® brand maintains its market leadership, exemplified by the recent delivery of a Mud Cat 40E to a remote Alaskan wastewater treatment plant.
Upgrades to Dredge Building Capacity
Our commitment to world-class dredge manufacturing is fundamental to our operations. As an established dredge builder with vertically integrated facilities in Baltimore, Maryland, and New Richmond, Wisconsin, Ellicott has significantly invested in both locations this year. These upgrades prioritize improved safety and optimize inventory and manufacturing flows, ensuring peak operational efficiency.
Product Innovation
For many years the Ellicott® Series 1870 Dragon® dredge has lead the industry as the largest 20-inch (500 mm) dredge on the market, renowned for its robust construction and longevity. While the 1870’s unique abilities evolved over time, this year Ellicott began the next phase of the dredge’s transformation – the 1870 Generation 2 (G2). The 1870G2 boasts an updated modern control stand and operator cabin. Its pontoons have been increased in size to operate in heavier seas while maintaining its crew friendly stable platform.
Ellicott is a leading global supplier of small to medium sized dredges & booster pumps from ready-stock inventory and via customized dredge solutions. Contact us today with your requirements; our dredging experts are standing by to support your project.
