SPOTLIGHT SAM CARBIS SOLUTIONS GROUP
SAFE AND EFFICIENT: Today’s largest biodiesel and renewable diesel producers are predominantly relying on rail to move product to market, often in unit train volumes. PHOTO: SAM CARBIS SOLUTIONS GROUP
Keeping the Biodiesel Industry Safer Fall prevention and safety pioneer, Sam Carbis Solutions Group, designs and fabricates custom loading and unloading systems for the growing biomass-based diesel industry. By Biodiesel Magazine Staff Sam Carbis founded the Aluminum Ladder Co. in 1930 with the idea of helping American workers and firefighters—the early pioneers of first response—stay safe and efficient on the job, whether it was building homes, repairing equipment, or saving lives. Today, Carbis’ mission carries on as his namesake company, Sam Carbis Solutions Group LLC, continues to offer fall protection and safety solutions to the world. Carbis, a fourth-generation familyowned business headquartered in Florence, South Carolina, is today a global leader in customized bulk loading access equipment and turnkey systems for truck, rail and marine applications across all industries. Carbis is the only company in North America that designs and manufactures both access equipment and loading arms, ensuring they work 26
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together without interference. The company fabricates its industrial equipment in their manufacturing facility in Darlington, South Carolina, just minutes from its headquarters and engineering hub. A Natural Extension For 60-plus years after Carbis was founded, the company’s main focus remained ladder manufacturing—in particular, ladders designed for fire departments. To this day, in fact, its ladder subsidiary still supplies a large number of U.S. fire departments and fire truck manufacturers with ladders, says Jason Shannon, regional sales manager at Carbis. “That said, industrial fall protection and safety solutions is without question the largest segment of our business today,” he says.
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'You’ll find our equipment at some of the largest biodiesel and renewable diesel facilities in the country' Jason Shannon, Carbis
