Biography
Tony Casassa began his career out of Purdue University by working at Parker Hannifin in the Hydraulics Group in a combination of sales and engineering positions, involved in complete hydraulic systems for mobile equipment. I then moved over to the OEM side and worked at Tadano Mantis as the Hydraulic Engineer for the mobile telescoping boom crawler cranes products—including working to improve the production roll-off cleanliness of the hydraulic systems. He joined Aggressive Hydraulics in 2014 as an Application Engineer and works with customers on custom cylinder applications for a variety of mobile and industrial applications. His experience has taught him the importance of hydraulic fluid cleanliness for the reliability of mobile and industrial systems from multiple perspectives: component manufacturer, OEM, and end user.