As a 38-year-old construction company, Old Forge Builders, Inc. (OFB), is making a name for itself in the building of commercial facilities while also looking to expand operations from New Jersey and the Philadelphia area into southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania. read more...
A.J. Milbes, CEO of Calwest Refrigeration Inc., remembers his first day on the job. In his early 20s, while earning his certification in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) from Brownson Technical School in Anaheim, California, he got a job working for a small commercial refrigeration company nearby. “I showed up on my first day of work wearing a tie, button-up shirt, nice pants and dress shoes. Everyone laughed at me,” he says. A.J. soon learned why. He spent the day doing the dirty work of refrigeration, clamping pipe and running insulation. “I’d never done this type of work before, and I didn’t know what to expect,” he recalls, laughing at the experience. read more...
When Gustavo “Gus” Escutia was 15 years old, he and his family moved from Mexico to California in search of the American Dream. Their early years in the U.S., however, were anything but ideal. They found themselves in a high-crime area where drugs were more accessible than jobs. Gus slept in a living room with his siblings at night and worked in a factory making $3 an hour by day. read more...
The word “revolution” represents a sharp change, and comes from the Latin “revolutio”, which means “a turn around.” read more...
An array of thoughts cascaded through Vincent Farricielli’s mind as he made his way to an impromptu meeting called by a client. As the owner of Steamatic of Connecticut mulled over recent events, he reflected on how dozens of his employees had just wrapped up a huge job at the client’s 20-story office building in Hartford, Connecticut. His team had worked around the clock to clean and restore the facility’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment and ancillary systems, which were damaged by a catastrophic fire after a rooftop air handling unit, aging and neglected, literally exploded. read more...
For 60 years, Washington, D.C.-area contractors have heard the same suggestion, says Don Posner: “Why don’t you give Posners a call?” Posner Industries Inc., headquartered in Capitol Heights, Maryland, distributes steel products and contractor supplies in the D.C. area. “We refer to ourselves as a one-stop shop,” says Alan Farr, Chief Revenue Officer. “Our competition is from much larger, nationwide companies. We have a broad range of products under one roof to save our customers time and money. They can get it all with one call, one email.” read more...
Peter Mandel is in the business of getting people back to normal. “A glorified janitor,” he calls himself, which sounds tame until you hear what he cleans up. read more...
At Orange Mirror and Glass (Orange Mirror), customer orders can range from installing outsized storefront windows in hefty buildings to replacing small, broken windowpanes in cozy bungalows. At Orange Mirror, these jobs are all important to the customer and therefore important to the company. read more...
CEO Clayton Rodrigues founded Zothex Flooring (Zothex) in 2015 because he wanted to deliver more options and better service to customers. An installer in the flooring industry since 2004, he describes the impetus for starting the company: “On jobs I was always being asked for samples, and whether I had a showroom customers could visit. As an installer, I didn’t have options for them, but one day I decided to say ‘yes.’ I started my own business, and it grew to where we are today in just five years.” read more...
LH Block Electric Company, Inc. (LH Block) was established in the 1950s by Lukas Hunsinger when he immigrated to the United States from Europe. He hired Randy Block as an apprentice in 1972 with the promise that if he worked hard he could one day take it over. He did just that, and in 1979, Lukas retired and sold the business to Randy. read more...
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