▼▼SPECIALTY PILING SYSTEMS, INC.:
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Over the last several years, when anyone asked Steve Whitty what
was new or what he was doing, he would answer, “I’m a ‘retiree in
training.’ Just like a new engineer starts as an engineer in training,
I’m trying to start a new experience, too.”
Nowadays, he’s telling people that he has partially figured out
his transition into retirement and finally has a target date for the
end of August.
Whitty started Specialty Piling Systems in 1995 after he was
tasked with closing down his family’s pile driving business, S.K.
Whitty & Co., when the second generation of the family decided
to discontinue its operations. During the process, Whitty decided
to begin his own operation as a consultant for value engineering,
dispute resolution, equipment valuation and equipment sourcing
and disposal services, drawing on his extensive 30-year experience
in the pile driving industry.
It was around this time when a local client asked Whitty about
where to obtain pile cushions. At S.K. Whitty & Co., the Whitty family
relied on Mason Forest Products in Hattiesburg, Miss., to supply
their cushion needs. Using that relationship, Whitty and Mason Forest
Products reached an agreement to manufacture pile cushions exclusively
to Whitty’s specifications. It wasn’t long until pile cushions became a
significant part of Specialty Piling Systems’ operations and a key revenue
generator for the company. Over the course of more than two decades,
Specialty Piling Systems has supplied cushions for projects throughout
the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Guam; Mason Forest
Products has consistently been eager in trying new designs and ideas for
Specialty Piling Systems for any pile in any location.
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