Smart Sand, Inc. Appoints Rick Shearer as President-Industrial Products
September 14, 2021 at 04:01 pm EDT
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Smart Sand, Inc. announced that industry veteran Richard J. “Rick” Shearer will join the company as President – Industrial Products at the end of September. In this new position, Shearer will be part of Smart Sand’s Management Team and will lead the company’s expansion into new markets for high-quality industrial products. Shearer has held multiple executive leadership positions, most recently with Emerge Energy Services LP, as Chief Executive Officer from 2012 until 2020. Before that, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Superior Silica Sands and of Black Bull Resources. He was also President and COO of U.S. Silica.
Smart Sand, Inc. is a fully integrated frac and industrial sand supply and services company. The Company offers complete mine to wellsite proppant supply and logistics solutions to its frac sand customers. The Company produces Northern White sand, which is a sand used as proppant used to enhance hydrocarbon recovery rates in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells and for a variety of industrial applications. It also offers proppant logistics solutions to its customers through its in-basin transloading terminals and its SmartSystems well-site proppant storage capabilities. Through its SmartSystems wellsite proppant storage solutions, it offers the SmartDepot and SmartDepotXL silo systems, SmartPath transloader, and its rapid deployment trailers. Its SmartDepot silos include passive and active dust suppression technology, along with the capability of a gravity-fed operation. The Companyâs SmartPath transloader is a mobile sand transloading system.
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