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GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. CAPWAP(R) 2006-3
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Ru = 4683.1 kips
Rs = 468.0 kips
Rb = 4215.1 kips
Dy = 1.28 in
Dx = 1.35 in
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“We’re now owned by the second generation,
Chris Palmer and Bobby Wood,
who are his stepson and son, respectively,”
said Verricchione. Palmer and the younger
Wood bought the company from Senior
and wife Roberta (a.k.a., “Chick”) in the
mid-2000s. The two gentlemen and the
company headquarters are based at the
Vermont location in Williston, outside of
Burlington.
“Mike Sylvia, who’s our general manager
and vice-president of sales – I guess you
would call him the 'floating manager' – he
goes between North Oxford, Syracuse and
Carlyle to kind of make sure everything’s
going okay and help out where needed,” said
Verricchione.
He says the market in the northeast is
pretty good these days for a growing company
like CRW.
“I would describe it as being robust.
A lot of the customers that we are renting
to and selling this equipment to are bridge
builders – heavy highway contractors. There
are also large general contractors; we’ve got a
couple of casinos being built simultaneously
in the state of Massachusetts,” he said. He
adds that CRW has equipment on several
large bridge jobs on the I-95 in Connecticut,
as well as a large computer chip plant being
built in the Utica area of northern New
York, near Syracuse and the Central Square
CRW location. “It’s just been incredible, the
amount of opportunity we’re seeing right
now, especially in this type of equipment.”
As far as brands go, Wood’s CRW
carries the products of many different companies,
from National Crane to Volvo to
Link-Belt, including some of Link-Belt’s
newer offerings.
“We have the 50-ton size up to the
250-ton size in our fleet, and that’s both
lattice crawler and the telescopic crawler,”
said Varricchione. “We have acquired two
of the 228 HSLs; that is the new 130-ton
lattice crawler crane that Link-Belt debuted
at CONEXPO in March.”
For versatility’s sake, the company
deals in both new equipment and rental
equipment.
“We’re involved now with renting
equipment that’s part of the construction
of the casinos. We have several pieces of
equipment in Springfield, and there’s a lot
of construction in the South Boston area,
which we’ve had equipment on, dealing with
companies that are doing foundation work.”
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One of Wood’s CRW’s customers, Smedley, pile driving with a Link-Belt 298HSL
Photo courtesy of Link-Belt
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