Shenandoah Tower Service Ltd. CEO Dave Anthony wants to improve not just his own company, but also the entire industry it operates in.
“I’m involved in every initiative that I’m aware of that is trying to make this (tower erection and service) a safer and more professional industry,” he says.
The Staunton, Va.-based company, founded by Anthony and his wife Jo in 1983, is a full-service tower construction and maintenance company that builds, modifies and maintains towers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. STS serves a diverse customer base of communications and utility companies including Dominion Power, Washington Gas, Verizon, U.S. Cellular, Shentel, Crown Castle, Motorola and the Virginia and West Virginia Public Broadcasting Corporations.
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Construction projects require a strong base of stone and aggregates to give them the strength they need to do their jobs over their lifetime. Because of the importance they have in their products, concrete and asphalt producers look for the best and most reliable aggregate providers to work with. Based in Maryland, Savage Stone LLC says it has become known as one of the most successful and reliable providers of crushed granite for the construction industry, and that’s due in large part to the quality of its equipment at its granite quarry as well as the strength and guidance of its parent company, Aggregate Management Inc.
“Savage Stone offers a full line of quality crushed stone aggregates serving the contracting industry,” the company explains. “We supply materials for many of the area’s largest concrete and asphalt producers, as well as commercial and residential projects of all sizes.
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Now is a time of great change in the world of electrical infrastructure. Not only has technology continued to improve in terms of traditional electrical transmission, but the grid now needs to accommodate a growing number of energy sources that range from traditional generation such as coal to renewable sources like wind and solar generation. The entire industry from coast to coast is looking for the answers to modernizing their operations and preparing for the next great wave of changes, and S&C Electric Company believes it has those answers. Chief Strategy Officer Wanda Reder says bringing innovative solutions to the electric power market has been S&C’s mission for more than a century.
“We’re all about transforming the grid and allowing the grid to be modernized by bringing technology and solutions to the marketplace that allow more customer choice and more flexibility,” Reder says.
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After 65 years, Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative Inc. has moved itself beyond the mere provision of power. “What we’ve done is change ourselves [through] growth into a service-type of organization,” General Manager and CEO Vic Simmons says.
Rapid City, S.D.-based Rushmore Electric delivers wholesale power to eight rural electrical cooperatives in western and central South Dakota. Simmons notes that four of the co-ops began developing in the state before World War II.
But the operations were put on hold until after the War, when the co-ops began building wires to service their customers. When the four entities realized they could not meet the demand for power by themselves, “They decided to join together and created Rushmore in 1950,” he explains.
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Roeslein & Associates recently completed a $4 million expansion to its fabrication facility that will aid in its plans to continue growing and staying diversified after 25 years of providing engineering, fabrication and construction management services. “The 25th anniversary is an important milestone to all of us here at Roeslein because our very first customer is still a customer of ours today,” says John DeMoulin, director of business development and marketing. “We have never lost a customer over a 25-year period and that is something we should all be proud of.”
Rudi Roeslein founded the St. Louis-based company from a vision of what he wanted to achieve. Roeslein’s dream was put in motion when he attended Saint Louis University on a partial soccer scholarship and had to work to fund the rest. He found a job at a local metal beverage can manufacturer that designed and built its own machinery. After graduating and realizing his dream of becoming a professional soccer player would pay less per year than becoming an engineer, Roeslein decided to stay with that company.
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Hydroblasting is a highly effective way to clean industrial equipment, but it is an inherently high-risk activity as well. “A lot of bad things can happen,” says Joe Davis, vice president of sales and marketing for PSC, a provider of specialty maintenance services to the energy infrastructure marketplace.
The use of high-pressure water cleaning systems at pressures up to 40,000 psi to clean oils, sludges, polymers and other contaminants from plant equipment has been an industry standard for more than 30 years, Davis explains.
Until recently, however, hydroblasting was primarily achieved through manual handling of lancing equipment, either stiff or flexible.
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For P&E Mining Consultants Inc., being small is an advantage that gives it more flexibility, President Eugene Puritch says. “[It] allows us to react quickly to the needs of the clients,” he says.
“People can call me up on a Saturday morning and say they want a conference call, and by lunchtime, I can do it,” Puritch describes, noting it would take much longer for larger firms to set up a call. Prompt and effective communication is everything in this business.
Based in Brampton, Ontario, with a branch office in Vancouver, P&E provides geological and mine engineering consulting reports, resource estimate technical reports, preliminary economic assessments and pre-feasibility studies. Often, Puritch says, people will refer to the company as “a boutique geological and consulting firm.
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MJM Electric Cooperative President and CEO Laura Cutler admits that, up until recent years, the organization was not exactly up-to-date when it comes to technology.
Services that customers of large regional electrical distributors likely take for granted – such as the ability to pay a bill with a credit card or online – took the Carlinville, Ill.-based MJM a while to implement for its members. It adopted the ability to process credit and debit card payments only four years ago, long after many of MJM’s peers.
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