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SUPPLY CHAIN REACTION Ohioans like PLIDCO’s Pete Haburt are selling to a global oil and gas industry BRIDGE INDUSTRIES: Industrial entrepreneur Jeff Berlin is taking his expertise to the oilfield equipment industry LINCOLN ELECTRIC: With pipelines and processing centers being built at a record pace, the market for portable welders is hot HALLIBURTON: Zanesville is suddenly an oilfield service hub thanks to the company's big investment FAIRMOUNT SANTROL: A billion-dollar empire made from sand

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The region’s businesses are linked to a long and diverse shale supply chain Working on stories about the oil and gas supply chain in Ohio was an eye-opener. We expected to find some good examples of companies selling or driving the supply chain in Ohio, and we did.

What was less expected was just how much many of these companies are leveraging their oil and gas expertise to become supply chain participants not just in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but across the nation and, in some cases, around the world.

For example, PLIDCO, also known as the Pipeline Development Company, has taken what began decades ago as a regional business supplying connectors and repair sleeves to pipelines and become a national and world leader in its industry. As a result, it is not dependent on local or even national activity, but has a diverse world market in which to sell its products.

In Cleveland, Lincoln Electric’s portable welders have become a preferred tool for putting together pipelines and other midstream infrastructure, which DAN SHINGLER are often in rural areas. It’s not only selling more EDITOR Shale Magazine welders into a larger geographic market, but it is partnering with the oil and gas industry to help develop more welders that can work on construction projects.

These companies not only are examples of how local businesses are realizing increased sales because of the oil and gas industry, but they are customers themselves. They buy parts, employ people here and are part of the “multiplier effect” that economic developers like to talk about when they speak of shale.

This is the real benefit of increased domestic drilling for Ohio’s economy.

When all the oil and gas infrastructure is built and drilling plateaus, the industry will probably only employ a few thousand Ohioans directly. After all, even a multi-billion-dollar gas processing plant only employs a couple hundred people once it’s up and running.

But work in the supply chain, especially for companies that sell into multiple shale plays or in multiple countries, will keep many Ohioans employed and busy — even at companies that have long been familiar names on the state’s industrial scene.

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Fairmount Santrol’s proppant sand sales have topped $1 billion and are still growing

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HOMEGROWN, WORLD RENOWNED

PLIDCO’s pipeline sleeves and connectors are selling in shale country and across the globe

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DELIVERING THE GOODS

Shale has reinvigorated the family business of Ron and Tyler Wilkhof in Canton

INVESTING IN PRODUCTION

Cleveland-area entrepreneur Jeff Berlin is buying and building shale supply chain companies

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MAKING SPARKS FLY

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IMMINENT DOMAIN?

Lincoln Electric’s portable welders are perfect for pipeline and midstream construction work

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HALLIBURTON’S HUB

The big oilfield service company is building a facility in Zanesville, Ohio that can serve three states

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From the Utica to Asia, PLIDCO is seeing a jump in demand for its famous connectors and repair sleeves

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LIDCO’s reaction to the sudden oil and gas boom in Ohio, the nation and the world?

Told ya so.

OK, no one at the company actually said that. But if they did, it would be hard to fault them. The company, in Westlake just west of Cleveland, has been focused on the oil and gas pipeline industry since it was founded in Cleveland in 1949 by Joseph and Berneice Smith. Now, its repair sleeves, connectors and other pipeline parts are in high demand.

“We never lost our core values,” said PLIDCO general sales manager Pete Haburt. “The founder made a commitment years ago, saying he never wanted to be the biggest, he didn’t want to be the richest, he just wanted to be the best in the business.

We think we’re there.”

For PLIDCO, “there” is everywhere — the company started out selling its pipeline connectors, sleeves and other parts and equipment in Ohio and the Midwest.

It expanded nationally in the 1950s and ’60s, then went global along with pipeline development projects in the ’70s and ’80s.

Basically, wherever the oil and gas industry goes, it takes PLIDCO with it.

Now, the company is watching it return to its home turf, though Haburt says the shale gas industry still represents only a small portion of the company’s annual sales. But shale gas is providing the company with some new sales opportunities, and Haburt is optimistic there will be more as pipelines and other midstream infrastructure continue to be planned and built.

“We’ve gained a little bit (from shale drilling). It might skew our percentage mix a couple of points one way or the other,” Haburt said. “We’ve only received orders from two or three midstream companies for shale gas stuff … but eventually, I think it will happen.”

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Investing IN PRODUCTION Industrial entrepreneur Jeff Berlin is taking what he learned and earned from traditional manufacturing and using it to buy and grow companies in the fracking supply chain

By Dan Shingler

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all it luck, good strategy, or perhaps a little of both, but Northeast Ohio entrepreneur Jeff Berlin says his bets on oil and gasrelated manufacturing operations are paying off.

He hopes to double down, if the opportunity to make another acquisition presents itself.

“The reason I got into the industry had more to do with a product than it did with the industry itself,” Berlin said, referring to his 2004 acquisition of Multi Products Inc., a manufacturer of wellhead equipment in Millersburg, Ohio. “Then, as I got into the industry, it became apparent to me that there’s a lot going on and everything has changed over to this shale play.”

A veteran of industrial giant Parker Hannifin, where he was a financial analyst, Berlin knows a few things about buying, operating and selling companies. He successfully cashed out as a co-owner of two companies he helped manage to growth: Friction Products in Medina and Cleveland’s Hawk Corp. That left him with capital, connections and management experience when Hawk was sold in 2003, and he quickly put all three to work.

“I knew I wanted to buy another company,” Berlin said, noting that he was just a little past 40 and not the type to coast and spend for 30 or so years.

So he formed Bridge Industries, a holding company, in 2003, shortly after the sale of Hawk. Berlin wanted to build a company that manufactured good, U.S.-made engineered products, the way Hawk had made things like brake components.

In 2004, he discovered and became enamored with Multi Products, a 50-person manufacturer whose main product was something called an artificial lift plunger, a device that traditional vertical well drillers used to bring up water, oil and other liquids from their wells.

“It was not a business I had a lot of experience in, but I liked the product line,” Berlin recalls.

Lucky and good

Jeff Berlin had plenty of experience growing industrial companies and making engineered products when he purchased Multi Products — but even he didn’t know his new acquisition would soon benefit from one of the nation’s biggest drilling booms.

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It was dumb luck, on one level, but gritty perseverance on a few others, that made it a good investment.

Berlin didn’t buy the company on some prediction that a new kind of drilling was going to unlock the nation’s shale gas and oil. Indeed, if he had seen that coming, he might not have liked Multi Products quite so much. The company sold to a lot of drillers in Ohio and other parts of Appalachia. But its customers were the small drilling companies that had traditionally drilled vertical wells, not the big out-of-state drillers that were about to move in and start drilling horizontal shale wells.

“We had a nice little thing going, but we had all these vertical wells and were dealing with Joe and Bob’s oil and gas,” Berlin said.

When the shale gas boom hit, those vertical drillers often were more interested in selling or leasing their deep mineral rights to a bigger driller

Natural gas storage is suddenly a fast-growing industry and Bridge subsidiary Transtech Energy is building tanks for both liquid natural gas applications, as well as for handling natural gas liquids.

than they were in drilling more puny and shallow vertical wells. In the meantime, most horizontal wells weren’t coming online until 2008 or later.

“We had to wait a few years, as the horizontal wells got drilled and then they needed help,” Berlin said. “It was painful.”

Painful, but worth it.

Multi Products not only has regained its footing and begun selling to drillers in Ohio and Pennsylvania now that shale drilling has commenced, but it’s selling through offices in Houston and Colorado, and has customers in China, India and Mexico. Berlin declined to reveal sales numbers, but he said the company has recovered from its slump and is growing at a clip of more than 30% a year because of new products and customers in the shale industry.

But that’s not Berlin’s only gain from his pain.

He also learned a lot about the oil and gas industry, and how to serve it with American manufacturing.

In many ways, he is exactly the type of entrepreneur that economic development advocates say will take advantage of the shale boom — because they put existing regional assets, both of flesh and metal, to work serving a new growth industry.

Spreading out Berlin hasn’t confined himself to Ohio, though.

In 2005, he and private investor backers

With the advent of the Utica, Multi Products Co.’s headquarters in Millersburg, Ohio has turned out to be a good location from which to serve oil and gas producers.

purchased half of Cimarron Energy, then headquartered in Colorado. It had been a customer of Multi Products, and also a maker of oil and gas production equipment. Cimarron needed to expand, and Berlin and his fellow investors had the capital and know-how to help it do just that.

“My part of the bargain was to find a facility for us to produce our own equipment, because at the time it was all sub-contracted,” Berlin said. “So we quickly acquired one of our biggest vendors, which was in Oklahoma, a company called Central Tank.”

The deal gave Cimarron new production capacity, manpower and two 60,000-square-foot production buildings in Oklahoma.

“We essentially went from no capacity to a lot of capacity,” Berlin said. “Cimarron went from being unknown in the East to having a leading market share in the Marcellus.”

Sales tripled, from $50 million to about $150 million, and Berlin and Cimarron’s other backers saw their investments fare similarly when they sold to Curtis Wright in 2012, he said.

He’s hoping to continue his streak. In 2013, Berlin’s Bridge Industries acquired controlling interest in Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Transtech Energy. It had been making storage and handling systems for propane before the shale gas boom exploded in its face.

“They started to see a lot of growth in the energy sector and they were, not inundated, but maybe overwhelmed,” Berlin said. “This

TransTech’s tanks play an important role in intermodal transportation for oil and gas.

business had 35 people.”

Today it has 120, thanks to a 2103 add-on acquisition of Waco, Texas-based Tubular Structure International, which now is known as Transtech Fabrication. Together, the two new additions are making more and larger storage tanks than Transtech could have produced before. And sales to the natural gas industry, where drillers and midstream operators use them to store natural gas liquids, are rising rapidly, according to Berlin.

“On the storage side of the business, this is truly an exciting time,” he said. “Your only limitation now is, can you find enough people and can you make enough equipment?”

Like Multi Products, Transtech does not disclose its sales figures, but it should grow by 50% a year for the near term at least, as long as it can keep pace with demand, Berlin figures.

Hitting the ‘trifecta’ Of course, there’s nothing to say Berlin won’t add to its capacity, or to Bridge’s oil and gas portfolio generally, with another deal. He’s certainly not ruling it out.

If he finds a deal he likes and needs more investment backing, he likely won’t have trouble funding it either, said Ralph Della Ratta, a co-investor in Cimarron who has known Berlin for more than 20 years, including as his investment banker.

Della Ratta is more than a little familiar with financing deals generally, as a founder and managing partner of Western Reserve Partners in Cleveland. The firm long has been active in merger and acquisition work, especially in the region’s manufacturing sector.

It doesn’t hurt that Berlin has the “trifecta” that guys like Della Ratta dream about as clients: He’s a seasoned financial investor with operations experience and a substantial amount of his own money to throw into the kitty.

But that doesn’t mean he’s the only executive/ entrepreneur in the area with the chops to make a move in the shale gas supply chain using existing regional assets and know-how.

“There are lots of them out there, there are probably a dozen people in Northeast Ohio in Jeff’s bracket, in terms of ability,” Della Ratta said. “I wish there were three dozen, but a dozen is good.”

And for those that might step up, there is a lot of investor interest. That’s thanks to low interest rates, increasing amounts of private equity and, in places like Ohio, a keen recent interest in oil and gas.

“There’s a tremendous appetite and money looking for deals,” Della Ratta said.

If things go as well as some hope, including Della Ratta, the combination of available investment dollars, regional know-how and the area’s industrial capacity could go a long way toward leveraging the impact of the Utica shale into a statewide economic tailwind.

“You’ve seen what it’s done for communities like Oklahoma City and Houston,” Berlin said. “I think it’s going to do the same thing for us in Ohio.”

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PLIDCO’s big Weld+ connectors enable crews to put together lines without having to perform labor-intensive processes on each end. They’re used in markets and environments as diverse as Alaska and Saudi Arabia.

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If Haburt doesn’t sound too worried about it, that’s probably because he’s not. PLIDCO has grown so much, especially over the past decade, that its market has become global, with about 70% of its sales coming from overseas. Its main focus now is on emerging markets such as Africa and on increased deep-water drilling, Haburt said.

But its products still will no doubt find their way into pipelines, fractionation plants, refineries and ethane crackers — all of which are being fueled by shale drilling in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas.

“Those will be future markets for us,” Haburt said.

For PLIDCO, a viable market is pretty much anywhere that pipes have to be connected or repaired, especially if they carry environmentally hazardous materials like gas or oil.

PLIDCO’s biggest product, in terms of sales, is its Weld+ connector, which allows two sections of pipe to be joined together without requiring threading or other preparation to the pipe itself.

Its second-biggest seller is a sleeve that can be used to repair a pipe with a rupture or hole; PLIDCO’s sleeve allows a line to be repaired without being disassembled or taken out of use for long periods of time.

It makes parts for pipelines as small as half an inch in diameter, and as large as 60 inches.

There are two trends, related to domestic shale drilling, which could play into the company’s hands. One is a growing desire to move less gas and oil by rail, which industry experts say is among the least efficient and most risky means of transport. The alternative to rail is pipeline, so more are expected to be built in the U.S., as well as abroad.

A second trend that could help PLIDCO

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cash in on shale is the pipeline and midstream industry’s increasingly proactive approach to safety and environmental risks.

While in the old days a pipeline operator would call PLIDCO when it had a leak, today’s better operators order repair parts for their specific pipeline ahead of time, so they’re on hand immediately should disaster strike. Further regulations and environmental concerns will likely mean that trend continues, Haburt predicts.

Better yet, for PLIDCO at least, is the fact that the U.S. is a world leader in infrastructure development. So the same practices employed

here are generally adopted in other parts of the world, where they also will create sales opportunities for the company, Haburt said.

While Ohio has only seen an oil and gas boom in the last four years or so, PLIDCO’s seen a spike in its business going back about 10 years now, corresponding with increased oil and gas development in other parts of the nation and the world. Since about 2004, PLIDCO’s sales have gone from about $10 million a year to more than $30 million this year, as its employment has risen from about 80 to about 105.

Most of its employees work in its manufacturing operations, which are all in Westlake, Haburt said.

In fact, the next challenge for PLIDCO might not be cornering the market as it relates to shale gas, but in keeping up with demand generally.

“We’re having a hard time finding skilled labor — machine operators and welders,” Haburt said.

It’s also running out of space. After building on to its existing plant last year, the company is already cramped again. It’s negotiating to buy the building next door, the huge former headquarters of Manco Inc. and the Duck Tape brand, Haburt said.

The company needs to gear up for the expansion of the oil and gas industry it expects to continue both at home and abroad. Its business is likely to remain mostly international, but Haburt doesn’t rule out the possibility that domestic work will provide a growing percentage of the company’s sales, especially if the shale gas and oil boom continues long enough to sustain even more infrastructure development.

“The mix of where our business comes from is always changing,” said Haburt, who has been with the company since he started there as a welder more than 35 years ago.

Though it uses CNC machines and other advanced manufacturing techniques, a lot of hand work still goes into many PLIDCO parts, and many are made to order.

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One of the world’s largest oilfield service providers is giving a southeastern Ohio town a boost as it builds a facility that will serve drillers in three states

Work continues on Halliburton’s Zanesville service center, which will support drillers in three states.

Halliburton’s Hub

By Dan McGraw

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n April 2012, when Halliburton broke ground for a new facility in Zanesville, Ohio, there were great expectations for the energy giant investing in the Ohio hometown of its former chairman and CEO Al Baker. He attended the groundbreaking, along with local and state officials, including the governor himself.

As part of $4 million in financial assistance from the State of Ohio, Halliburton promised to employ 300 people within three years and fill at least 70% of its positions locally — a huge boon to Zanesville and Muskingum County.

“It’s a great opportunity for energy development in our state,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said at the groundbreaking. “You are getting it right, using your assets here in figuring out how to make Zanesville into a hub for this development.”

So far, that’s exactly what’s been happening. Halliburton’s 135,000-squarefoot Zanesville service center includes buildings to house many of the company’s business divisions, including administrative, maintenance, general warehouse and bulk storage for sand and cement used in drill prep and operations. Construction continues at the site and Halliburton is making Zanesville a key anchor point for its energy operations in the Marcellus

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and Utica shale plays. The company expects to invest between $35 million and $50 million in its Zanesville operations.

Delivering on the promise

Much of Halliburton’s hub in Zanesville is coming to fruition ahead of schedule. In October, the company announced it was closing its West Virginia facility in Lewis County and moving those operations and jobs to Zanesville. As a result of that move and its general expansion, Halliburton already has more than 300 employees at its Zanesville operations hub, which opened in 2013. These employees are full-time residents, some of whom moved to Zanesville from the states that make up Halliburton’s Northeast Area — Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia, Illinois and Indiana, said Halliburton spokeswoman Susie McMichael.

As a result of the move, Halliburton now provides important oilfield services, like wellhead cementing, from Zanesville. The company says that, with its combination of location and service offerings, the Zanesville facility is well positioned to support drillers in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Zanesville is ideally located at the convergence of the Utica and Marcellus shale plays, but its skilled workforce and transportation assets were also a big factor in choosing it as an operations hub, said Tony

Angelle, vice president for Halliburton’s Northeast Area, in an email.

“We have access to a big pool of job candidates, such as graduates from Zane State College and Marietta College, as well as from trade and vocational institutions and the local National Guard unit,” he said.

“Zanesville’s support infrastructure also influenced our decision, as it offers excellent access to interstate highways, a local airport and a shortline railroad connecting to two class-one railroads.”

Needless to say, Halliburton is just the kind of company economic developers hoped would set up shop in Ohio when the Utica shale play first made headlines. Founded in 1919, the company employs more than 75,000 people in 80 countries. It is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. The company serves the upstream oil and gas industry, from locating fossil fuels and managing geological data to drilling and optimizing production through the life of the field. It’s about to get even bigger too — Halliburton recently announced it would take over rival Baker Hughes for $34.6 billion. There’s no word yet on how or whether that will impact either company’s operations in Ohio.

A welcome tenant For Zanesville and Muskingum County, the attraction of Halliburton to the EastPointe Business Park — a 1,200-acre development located 2.5 miles north of I-70 just east of the city — was vital. The town, which has seen old industries like pottery and coal mining come and go, needed just such a boost.

“The development by Halliburton and the recent movement of jobs from their West Virginia operations is pretty important to Zanesville and Muskingum County,” said Mike Jacoby, executive director of the Zanesville-Muskingum County Port Authority, the lead local government agency in a private/public partnership with Halliburton.

Jacoby and Angelle both said the project is an example of how local and state agencies should work together to make investments work for companies like Halliburton and the region.

“JobsOhio and Zanesville-Muskingum Port Authority both played a significant role in creating a business-friendly climate for the mutual benefit of the local economy and Halliburton,” Angelle said.

In fact, the Zanesville area is probably benefitting more from Halliburton’s presence than from actual drilling so far. Exploration, for the most part, hasn’t yet moved that far west in Ohio, but Halliburton is helping the city attract other businesses.

Jacoby said city and county officials have convinced other drilling companies to locate their headquarters for regional operations in the area. Pennsylvania’s Eclipse Resources and Producers Service Corp. both moved operations to the county, where they each now employ more than 100 people drilling in Utica and Marcellus shale plays.

“What we have is these companies seeing our great location and the great workforce here, and they have decided this is a great place to base their energy services for this region,” Jacoby said. “But we are also seeing local companies growing tremendously, like companies that supply uniforms or those that do cleaning services and even construction for higher-end

apartments that are needed for the workers being transferred here.”

For Ohio, the investment by Halliburton and others is about jobs. The direct jobs are obvious, but a recent study, conducted by the ZanesvilleMuskingum and Guernsey County port authorities and chambers of commerce, also found a high demand for related jobs, like commercial drivers and industrial maintenance mechanics.

In fact, Zanesville might have already gone from not having enough jobs, to not having as many workers as some employers would like.

“We continue to hear from employers that there are skilled positions that are continually hard to fill,” Jacoby said.

Not that he’s complaining.

“We have confidence in our educational institutions and our ability to retain good people to fill those jobs. Having Halliburton investing here helps build a critical mass of energy investment that will make us one of the top places for this long-term economic development in this region.”

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Fairmount Santrol is selling more than a billion dollars’ worth of sand a year, thanks to the fracking industry’s need for proppant

By Dan McGraw & Dan Shingler

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veryone knows that shale drillers use a lot of water, but along with the water and chemicals that are used to frack wells is something known as “proppant” — sand, mostly — and it has become a hot commodity.

Today, the U.S. drilling industry is using more fracking sand than ever, both on a per-well basis and in total. A good portion of that sand comes from Ohio-based Fairmount Santrol, formerly known as Fairmount Minerals.

In fracking, sand is mixed with water and chemicals and, when pressure creates cracks in the shale, the sand fills them and holds the cracks open so the natural gas and liquids that drillers seek can flow out in greater volumes.

It’s a vital part of the fracking industry and a critical component of its supply chain.

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The increased use of fracking to drill for oil and gas has ballooned Fairmount’s sales in recent years. What’s more, as drillers become more efficient, they are using more sand to increase well productivity, said Fairmount CEO Jenniffer Deckard.

“The horizontal laterals are getting longer and longer, so that’s more proppant (being used) and they’re also trying to use more proppant in each stage of the drilling,” Deckard said in a lateNovember interview.

Fairmount, which was founded in 1986 and is based in Chesterland, shipped more than 7.5 million tons of sand and value-added sand products in 2013, when it brought in revenues of about $1.2 billion, according to the company’s financial filings. This year, its sales have continued to increase.

“Our broad and innovative product suite

addresses more than 90% of the proppant market,” said Kristin Lewis, Fairmount Santrol’s director of communications and engagement.

Fairmount controls substantial deposits of sand suitable for fracking — and not just any sand will do — across North America and abroad. It’s not difficult to see how the company can sell so much of it.

Some wells need as much as 8,000 tons of the proppant sand (often a high-purity quartz), and that much sand can fill as many as 100 rail cars, according to industry estimates. In a study released earlier this year, Houston-based PacWest Consulting Partners predicted that shale drilling companies will use nearly 95 billion pounds of sand this year, a 30% increase from 2013.

Little wonder that Fairmount Santrol went public with a $2.6 billion stock offering in October.

The company employs more than 1,000 people worldwide and its facilities include nine active mining and mineral processing plants in the United States, Canada, China, Denmark and Mexico.

One of the keys to the company’s growth is a vertical integration model that includes production, transportation and logistics. Lewis points out that Fairmount Santrol has the industry’s “most extensive logistics network including approximately 50 terminals, of which more than

Fairmount Santrol CEO Jenniffer Deckard says several trends are helping her company continue to increase its sales. Drillers are using more and more sand in each shale well that they frack in order to increase production and improve their margins.

30 exclusively handle our products, a rapidly expanding fleet of more than 8,500 railcars, and unit-train capabilities at three production facilities and three in-basin terminals.”

Transportation and logistics are keys to success in this industry. Sand from the beach doesn’t cut it as a proppant, and most of the sand for fracking, including Fairmount’s, comes from Midwestern states like Wisconsin and Minnesota. Fairmount, because of its infrastructure, has the means to get that sand onto rail cars, which can carry it to Texas, South Dakota, Ohio or just about anywhere else fracking is done in the United States.

“Over the last three years we’ve built a very big, broad and fully-integrated infrastructure in every major basin, so we can shift as oil and gas (production) shifts,” Deckard said.

Fairmount’s business doesn’t seem ready to tail off, either. PacWest predicts North America proppant consumption will increase 23% annually through 2016, from 80 billion pounds in 2013 to 153 billion pounds in 2016, with much of the growth occurring in frack sand consumption.

And not only might Fairmount sell more sand, it might sell it for higher prices, at least for now.

“PacWest expects logistics to continue to be challenging through 2016, leading to significant price increases at the well pad,” the firm wrote in its September ProppantIQ report. “The market constraints can be attributed to shortages in railcars (and) built-for-purpose frack sand truck

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trailers, among other factors. However, there should be improvement by 2015.”

Deckard said she doesn’t worry that sales are about to drop. Drilling is continuing in the United States, even if it does jump from oil to gas plays as prices change. In the meantime, oil and gas companies are looking to get the most out of each well in order to keep their cost

down relative to production and protect their margins. That means more wells are drilled from each pad, wells are drilled out farther than before and drillers are trying to pack as much sand into their wells as possible — all good trends for Fairmount.

“Even if drilling pulls back, the amount of proppant used per well is going to continue to accelerate,” Deckard said, adding that her company has seen no reduction in demand for sand, nor pressure on its pricing.

Also, it’s also not just sand, but technology that Fairmount is selling these days, she said. The company has developed ways to coat individual grains of sand, in order to make its proppant better able to hold open cracks in the rock under pressure. It’s also developing proppants that float up and better fill cracks, further enhancing well productivity.

While it grows, Fairmount Santrol is also trying to distinguish itself from the rest of the fracking sand industry by taking a proactive approach on environmental issues. Deckard even drives an electric car — a Tesla.

“We understand that fracking/drilling and the environment is an important issue and one that draws a lot of attention,” Lewis said. “From an environmental perspective, Fairmount Santrol has planted over 370,000 trees since 2007 to offset Tier I and Tier II carbon emissions, we have diverted 1.2 million pounds of bulk bags from landfill disposal. And, we currently have 12 facilities with zero waste to landfill.”

Some of the best fracking sand in the world comes from the lower Great Lakes region, including silica sand from this Fairmount mine in Maiden Rock, Wis.

OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS WE’VE BUILT A VERY BIG, BROAD AND FULLY-INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE IN EVERY MAJOR BASIN, SO WE CAN SHIFT AS OIL AND GAS (PRODUCTION) SHIFTS.

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It still says “Ron’s” on the sign, but Tyler Wilkof is ready to take the reins from his dad and has already implemented new ways to sell and deliver specialized apparel and equipment to shale drillers.

If the drillers can’t come to Canton, Ron’s Workingman’s Store goes to them — with a truck full of specialized clothing and gear

Delivering THE GOODS

By Chrissy Kadleck

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30-foot freightliner outfitted with as much as $40,000 worth of high-end work clothing and gear leaves Ron’s Workingman’s Store in downtown Canton a few times a week to head to midstream plant sites throughout eastern Ohio.

The mobile retail store traverses rural routes to bring its array of Carhartt coats, flame-resistant hoodies, high-visibility safety vests and heavy-duty boots directly to the oil and gas workers in Scio, Kensington, Leesville and other sites within a two-hour radius of its brick-and-mortar store.

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ONCE THE UTICA SHALE PLAY STARTED, WE HAD ABOUT A 20% REVENUE INCREASE.

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The brainchild of Tyler Wilkof, the fourth generation to work in the family business that also includes Wilkof Industrial Supply, the store on wheels has been trucking its wares around the area since 2012.

“Initially there were a lot of people coming up from Texas and Oklahoma, Louisiana and North Dakota, so they were transient and the beautiful thing was they didn’t know where to shop so we came to them,” he says.

He says his company was “blessed” when Chesapeake Energy four years ago opened its Utica office across the street from them in downtown Canton. Ron’s Workingman’s Store quickly became a vendor for Chesapeake and all of the company’s subcontractors.

“Canton is not the middle of the Utica shale boom, but fortunately it is a city that has taken in quite a few of the corporate offices. So we saw an opportunity to go out to the well sites directly and to go out into Carroll County and Guernsey County and where the actual action is taking place,” says Wilkof, who recently became president of the company.

The truck was equipped with heat, air conditioning and a generator, and staffed with one employee who was able to accept cash, credit cards or company accounts. It used to go to well sites and other places with just a few workers, but now has to prioritize its stops.

“It was a great way to get started but there just wasn’t the critical mass. Now we like to go places where there is at least a minimum of 40 workers,” Wilkof said.

This bold business move was the latest evolution for the company that started in 1932 as a scrap yard. After World War II, it broadened into a supply company, making profitable use of available government surplus.

In 1979, Ron Wilkof, the third generation and Tyler’s father, moved the store to its current location in Canton and added Ron’s Workingman’s Store. The businesses provide mill and mine supplies and also cater to excavators and the oil and gas industry.

“What happened was the guys would come in to buy their wire rope cable and their lifting slings that they use in the field and he thought, ‘Why not sell them the work clothing that they need?’ So, we started selling Carhartt to the oil and gas industry and it worked brilliantly,” Tyler Wilkof says. “Every generation of the family has brought a new piece to the puzzle, a new profit center to the business.”

After a painful recession, the Utica shale gave the company a muchneeded boost in nearly every category of its business.

“So many of our existing customers have benefitted with the oil and gas exploration and all of the infrastructure that’s being built,” he says. “Once the Utica shale play started, we had about a 20% revenue increase. Ron’s Workingman’s Store has seen exponential growth in the last several years. It was about a quarter of overall revenue and now it’s just under half (of both companies’ sales) and almost all of that growth is from oil and gas.”

He’s also added three full-time positions since the Utica shale boom.

The mobile store goes out on scheduled trips to its sites, avoiding a new competitor that has apparently also seen the benefit of the clothing truck. Once Wilkof’s people know the client, they tailor the inventory and customize it as much as possible, pulling from a large stockpile that boasts more than 75 styles of boots.

The shale boom is even changing style, at least in terms of work wear, Wilkof says.

“One thing we had to change specifically for our friends working here who are from down south is that we didn’t before carry a lot of pull-on boots or western-style, safety-toe boots,” he says. “They are very, very popular with the guys that come up from Oklahoma and Texas, and that is something before the most recent boom we didn’t have.”

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MAKING

Lincoln Electric’s equipment, including its “virtual welders” that can help industry train new highly skilled workers, are a popular attraction at manufacturing and oil and gas trade shows.

SPARKS FLY Lincoln Electric’s portable welders are exactly what’s needed to put together pipelines and other remote infrastructure

By Chrissy Kadleck

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ince the early days when its welders were transported to work sites on horse-drawn wagons, 100-year-old Lincoln Electric Co. has been selling its welding equipment to drillers and pipeline developers.

Fast forward to today’s modern day shale boom and this Euclid, Ohiobased company remains iconic for its line of engine-driven welders and as the world’s largest manufacturer of arc welding and cutting products.

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“We love energy and it really doesn’t matter to us what form it’s in, because you don’t consume it where you get it,” says Mike Mintun, Lincoln’s senior vice president of sales and marketing for North America.

“You pull it out of the ground in eastern Ohio, (but) you need to move it to other parts of the world to use it.”

“Once you extract it — and it requires lots of equipment to ready the sites and drill for the oil and gas — you basically you have two options,” he says. “You can either put it in a tank car which is a welded vessel, or you can put it in a pipeline and those pipelines all have to be welded.”

That’s one reason that the publicly traded company’s worldwide sales in 2013 were just less than $2.9 billion, up $400 million from 2008, and continued to rise this year. Globally, its line of heavy-duty equipment and consumables serve many core industry segments and several that overlap with the oil and gas industry, including heavy fabrication, pipeline, pipe mill and energy.

The ripple effects of the shale boom have had a powerful effect on Lincoln’s customers, including one tank car manufacturer that is experiencing unprecedented demand for its product.

“You need more rail cars to move this product that gets taken out of the ground to where it needs to get used and that has had a very large impact on our business in that area because those manufacturers have to buy lots of welding machines and lots of consumables to make those,” Mintun says.

And, of course, with thousands of miles of new pipelines being built around the United States, that, too, is a source of new sales for Lincoln’s portable welders, which are ideal for remote construction projects.

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INDUSTRIES THAT ARE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES ARE PERFECT PARTNERS TO WORK WITH FOR DEVELOPING NEW SOLUTIONS. Tom Matthews, senior vice president of technology and R&D for Lincoln Electric

“When you build these pipelines you have to hire all these welders to come in and weld together these 40-foot long pieces of pipe on site and that’s very good for our business and that is happening now,” Mintun says.

Perhaps better yet, he adds: “We think there is going to have to be more pipelines built to move all of the shale gas around our country.”

Even though Lincoln is a global company, the shale boom in eastern Ohio and other areas in the country has resulted in a marked increase its business, and also its expertise.

The industry as a whole is “very significant in driving the newer technologies from a metallurgical perspective,” says Tom Matthews, senior vice president, technology and R&D for Lincoln Electric, which devoted more than $40 million to research and development in 2013.

“Industries that are pushing the boundaries are perfect partners to work with for developing new solutions. (Oil and gas companies) are always looking for higher-strength materials, better corrosion resistance, longer life,” Matthews says. “Historically it’s one of our dominant industries, and Lincoln Electric has done many product introductions targeted towards this industry.”

The company is focusing in areas such as creating specialty alloys for use in welding and offering more automated welding solutions such as its new orbital welding equipment that can circle and weld pipe.

“It’s not so much the equipment alone that sets us apart; it’s really our understanding of welding as a process and helping the customers become more productive or weld at a higher quality rate,” Mintun says. “The way that we do that is we have 150 trained sales engineers that are out working

on these job sites and in these customers’ plants helping these customers.”

Lincoln Electric’s salespeople all undergo a nine-month training program in Cleveland to develop a technical background that allows them to understand what the customers’ challenges are and learn ways to improve customers’ capabilities as it relates to welding, Mintun says.

“The key is that we work hand in hand with our customers with their issues and with their problems,” he says.

Beyond its own workforce training, Lincoln Electric has taken an active role in addressing the shortage of welders generally. In addition to its own welding school, the company has affiliations with trade schools and community colleges around the country. Lincoln helps them develop their welding programs to attract and teach the next generation of welders.

“Today in the United States, the average-aged welder is well into his 50s,” Mintun says. “Finding good, qualified welders has become a real challenge for companies and has been another driver of the automation aspect. So, instead of depending on the skilled craftsman to do the work, we’re looking to employ machinery to do it faster and take the labor element out of it.”

The company has even taken its effort to enhance the image of arc welding on the road. Through a partnership with the American Welding Society, the company takes a semi-trailer truck to youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts and county fairs to introduce young people to welding as a potential vocation.

“What we have seen is enrollment in welding programs has virtually doubled in the last three years,” he says.

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COLUMN | Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Imminent Domain?

Fights are breaking out over landowner rights and pipeline development — understanding the rules is more important than ever

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edina landowners are concerned that NEXUS Gas Transmission, a project of Texas-based Spectra Energy Corp., may bury a three- to five-foot-diameter pipeline across their properties despite their opposition.

This pipeline would carry natural gas from a processing center in Kensington, Ohio, through an interconnector pipeline in Michigan, to Canada.

Landowners are upset and bewildered. They know property ownership comes with rights, like the ability to choose how property is used. But those rights are limited. You can’t use property to create a nuisance or violate zoning regulations. And you might not decide its use at all.

The Constitution prohibits the taking of private property, for public use, without just compensation.

This means that property can be taken, for public use, if the landowner is paid fairly.

That’s what could happen in Medina, where residents received letters from Spectra Energy’s right of way project manager indicating that the company is exploring a pipeline route that would cross, or pass near, their properties. Some residents received follow-up letters requesting access to survey their properties.

The survey is only the beginning.

NEXUS will need easements, which are permanent rights to use land they don’t otherwise own. The easements would give NEXUS rights of access and a right of way on which to construct and maintain the pipeline. It also would restrict landowners from using the surface in any way that would interfere with the pipeline. They could not build above it or plant trees with roots that could damage the pipeline.

Landowners could just agree to transfer use rights to the pipeline company in exchange for payment.

That’s certainly easy for the pipeline company.

But, if the landowners refuse, even after legitimate attempts by the company to negotiate, they could still lose the easement via eminent domain. This is what Medina landowners fear will happen.

Although the privilege of eminent domain is usually reserved for government entities, the law sometimes allows it for those with governmentally delegated authority.

The Natural Gas Act (NGA) governs pretty much everything about interstate natural gas pipelines.

Relevant here, it gives natural gas pipeline companies, through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the power of eminent domain.

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For the pipeline company to use eminent domain, FERC must declare its project to be in the public interest and must issue to the company a “certificate of public necessity and convenience.”

To decide whether it will issue this important certificate, FERC considers whether the benefits of the proposed pipeline outweigh its potential adverse effects, such as disruptions to the environment and unnecessary exercises of eminent Robertson domain. FERC prefers the pipeline company to earn the landowners’ agreement before it resorts to eminent domain.

The three-pronged approach FERC divides the process into three stages: preapplication (or applicant planning), application, and construction. In the pre-application stage, FERC suggests that the certificate applicant, the pipeline company, select a pipeline route and negotiate the purchase of easements from affected landowners.

NEXUS, apparently, is working on this now and seeks to survey land to determine the best pipeline route. This process, if successful, avoids eminent domain. In this stage, prior to submitting a certificate request, the pipeline company holds public meetings and completes necessary land surveys. NEXUS has indicated that it is doing this.

During the application phase, the pipeline company files an application with FERC requesting a certificate. FERC will publish notice of the application in the Federal Register; the public may participate by submitting written concerns, and may formally intervene in the process. By formally intervening landowners preserve their right to seek rehearing or judicial review of FERC’s decision regarding the certificate.

Intervening also puts people on a list through which they will receive updates, including the applicant’s filings and other related documents.

Intervening also allows affected parties to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be heard in court. To intervene, a landowner must request to intervene within 21 days of FERC’s Federal Register notice of the application.

In this stage, the agency will begin working on

the required environmental review, which will involve either an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement, before it issues a certificate. There are several opportunities for public involvement in the environmental review process.

Following completion of environmental review, FERC will issue the certificate, deny it, or recommend some other action such as rerouting the pipeline. Assuming the landowner has intervened, there is now an opportunity to request a rehearing, referral to a FERC administrative law judge, or judicial review in federal court of FERC’s certificate decision.

Moving ahead If FERC grants a certificate, and the pipeline company has complied with all conditions, the company may proceed to obtain access rights to relevant properties, if necessary, through eminent domain. Provided the pipeline company has tried, unsuccessfully, to negotiate with the landowners, it can go to federal district court where the pipeline will be located to condemn access rights to the relevant lands. The NGA requires that this federal condemnation “conform … with the practice and procedure in a similar action or proceeding in the courts of the state where the property is situated.”

So, Ohio law matters, too.

Ohio law grants any company organized for transporting natural gas through pipes the power of eminent domain to appropriate as much property as is “necessary and for a public use.”

The pipeline company has the burden of proving the appropriation is “necessary and for a public use.” Ohio law makes that easy by providing that an appropriation by a common carrier is a public use. The pipeline company can create a rebuttable presumption that the appropriation is necessary merely by passing a corporate resolution deeming it so. Under Ohio law, after the question of eminent domain is settled, a jury determines the appropriate amount of compensation.

Medina residents opposed to the pipeline hope things never get that far. If they’re to prevail, they should attend the public meetings, intervene in the FERC process, and comment and participate in the environmental review process.

Should the pipeline not be rerouted or defeated before FERC or in subsequent appeals, they should be prepared to find that the pipeline company will secure easements to gain access to their land for the construction and continued operation of the pipeline, possibly through eminent domain.

Still, there are opportunities for involvement and influence of the process. The fate of the NEXUS pipeline, and of Medina landowners, is far from set.

DRILL CHASERS

COMPANIES SELLING INTO THE SHALE GAS SUPPLY CHAIN

This year’s Drill Chasers business directory includes companies we’ve come in contact with in the course of covering the Utica shale, as well as members of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association and businesses that participate with Ohio University’s shale supply chain database. We thank both of those organizations, along with the many companies that contacted us directly, for their help in assembling this year’s directory.

ACCOUNTING COMPANY

ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Appalachian Basin CPAs

213 Market Ave. N. Suite 240, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark

330-437-1182

Clark Schaefer Hackett

4449 Easton Way, Columbus, Ohio 43219

Franklin

614-468-2464

Hall, Kistler & Co.

220 Market Ave. S, Suite 700, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark

330-453-7633

Rea & Assoc.

545 N. Market St., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-264-0791

GBQ Partners

230 West St. Suite 700, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Franklin

614-947-5203

Carper Well Service

P.O. Box 273, Reno, Ohio 45773

Washington

740-374-2567

David R. Hill Inc.

132 S. 2nd St., Byesville, Ohio 43723

Guernsey

740-685-5168

Force Inc.

1077 119 Highway N., Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701

Indiana

724-465-9829

K.D.A. Inc.

103 W. Market St., Warren, Ohio 44481

Trumbull

330-360-8055

Knox Brine Disposal

20718 Danville-Amity Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050

Knox

740-398-3185

Abby Services

2 DeBlasio Drive, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania 15317

Washington

724-745-8800

Canaan Industries

12845 Burbank Road, Burbank, Ohio 44214

Wayne

330-464-1510

Coulson Compression and Measurement

7280 Rose Hill Road, Roseville, Ohio 43777

Perry/Muskingum

740-697-0305

Dearing Compressor & Pump

3936 Stonecreek Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-599-5720

Exterran

114 Cornerstone Drive, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

724-935-7660

BRINE DISPOSAL/INJECTION WELLS

COMPRESSION

CONSTRUCTION Pioneer Pipe/Pioneer Group

2021 Hanna Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-376-2400

CPRO Development Inc.

8191 Township Road 102, Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Holmes

330-674-2776

Cryogenic Construction

2950 County Road 74, Mingo Junction, Ohio 43938

Jefferson

740-282-5043

American Infrastructure Enterprises

20225 state Route 7 S, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-374-0549

Bi Con Services Inc.

10901 Clay Pike Road, Derwent, Ohio 43733

Guernsey

740-685-2542

Grunau Co.

8302 Southern Blvd., Boardman, Ohio 44512

Mahoning

330-758-3500

Lindsay Concrete Products

6845 Erie Ave. NW, Canal Fulton, Ohio 44614

Stark

800-837-7788

Associated Builders and Contractors

33 Greenwood Lane, Springboro, Ohio 45066

Warren

937-704-0111

The Chas. E. Phipps Co.

2993 Perry Drive SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-754-0467

Kirila Contractors Inc.

505 Bedford Road SE, Brookfield, Ohio 44403

Trumbull

330-448-4055

Kinetics Noise Control Inc.

6300 Irelan Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017

Franklin

614-889-0480

ISCO Industries

1430A Virginia St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

614-419-5457

Alpha Hunter

P.O. Box 430, Reno, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-374-2940

H.A.D. Inc.

9797 Benner Road, Rittman, Ohio 44270

Wayne

330-925-1000

Hall Drilling

981 E. Washington Ave., Ellenboro, West Virginia 26346

Ritchie

304-869-3404

Killbarger Drilling

450 Gallagher Ave, Logan, Ohio 43138

Hocking

740-385-6019

B&J Drilling Co.

13911 Millersburg Road, Danville, Ohio 43014

Knox

740-599-6700

Maric Drilling Co.

P.O. Box 82, Winesburg, Ohio 44690

Holmes

330-830-8178

Triad Engineering Inc.

1005 E. State St., Athens, Ohio 45701

Athens

740-249-4304

Borton-Lawson Engineering

4450 Belden Village St. NW, Suite 704, Canton, Ohio 44718

Stark

330-312-7799

Farris Engineering, a Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Co.

10195 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, Ohio 44141

Cuyahoga

440-838-7560

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ENGINEERING COMPANY

ADDRESS

COUNTY

Foresight Enginering Group Inc.

320 Center St., Unit F, Chardon, Ohio 44024

Geauga

PHONE

440-286-1010

Jobes Henderson & Associates Inc.

59 Grant St., Newark, Ohio 43055

Licking

740-344-5451

U.S. Bridge

201 Wheeling Ave., Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-432-6334

Basic Systems Inc.

9255 Cadiz Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-432-7223

Hull & Associates Inc.

4 Hemisphere Way, Bedford, Ohio 44146

Cuyahoga

440-232-9945

CESO Inc.

8534 Yankee St., Dayton, Ohio 45458

Montgomery

937-435-8584

RJM Engineering Company Inc.

66 S. Plains Road, The Plains, Ohio 45780

Athens

740-797-0500

Engineering Associates Inc.

1935 Eagle Pass, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-345-6556

Sands Decker CPS

507 Main St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

614-459-6992

JANX

2455 Baker Road SW, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-353-1904

CTI Engineers Inc.

220 Market Ave. S, Suite 750, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark

330-455-7733

8374 Lancaster Newark Road NE, Baltimore, Ohio 43105

Fairfield

740-862-1554

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES U.S.T. Environmental Contractor Inc. WQSi

4024 E. Miami River Road, Cleves, Ohio 45311

Hamilton

513-662-8120

Ohio Soil Recycling

2101 Integrity Drive S, Columbus, Ohio 43209

Franklin

614-444-7645

Belmont Labs

25 Holiday Drive, Englewood, Ohio 45322

Montgomery

937-832-8242

Environmental Design Group

450 Grant St., Akron, Ohio 44311

Summit

330-375-1390

Partners Environmental Consulting Inc.

31100 Solon Road, Solon, Ohio 44139

Cuyahoga

440-248-6005

Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc.

8740 Orion Place, Suite 100, Columbus, Ohio 43240

Franklin

888-598-6808

BBU Environmental Services Ltd.

2206 Horns Mill Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130

Fairfield

740-681-9902

SUNPRO

7640 Whipple Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720

Stark

330-966-0910

Norton Engineering LLC

5758 Webster St., Dayton, Ohio 45414

Montgomery

937-223-5848

Labyrinth Management Group Inc.

239 S. Court St., Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-764-4825

All Purpose Environmental Services

7890 Navarre Road SW, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-495-6483

Southside Environmental Group LLC

465 Robbins Ave., Niles, Ohio 44446

Trumbull

330-299-0026

HAAS Enviornmental

647 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson

740-284-0694

Precision Analytical Inc.

4450 Johnston Parkway, Unit B, Cleveland, Ohio 44128

Cuyahoga

216-663-0808

Environmental Resources Management

3333 Richmond Road, Suite 160, Beachwood, Ohio 44122

Cuyahoga

216-593-5200

ASC Group Inc.

800 Freeway Drive North, Suite 101, Columbus, Ohio 43229

Franklin

614-268-2514

Microbac Laboratories

158 Starlite Drive, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-373-4071

National Pump and Process Inc.

180 Treat Road, Aurora, Ohio 44202

Portage

330-562-0220

Progressive Crane

21000 Aerospace Pkwy, Cleveland, Ohio 44142

Cuyahoga

216-210-4305

Stauffer Glove & Safety

3866 Kropf Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-484-4197

EQUIPMENT RENTAL/SUPPLY

ABC Equipment Rental and Sales

29 Pearl Road, Brunswick, Ohio 44212

Medina

330-220-4545

Canton Erectors Inc.

2009 Quimby Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-453-7363

Pro-Am Safety

551 Keystone Drive, Warren, Ohio 44512

Trumbull

330-207-0083

Oil Distributing Co.

2181 Hardy Parkway, Grove City, Ohio 43123

Franklin

614-406-6138

Vermeer Heartland

2574 U.S. Route 22 NW, Washington C.H., Ohio 43160

Fayette

740-335-8571

Sattler Pump Solutions

1455 Wolf Creek Trail, Sharon Center, Ohio 44274

Medina

330-239-2552

SSECO Air Fluid Environment

1294 E. 55th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44103

Cuyahoga

216-431-6100

Rentwear Inc.

7944 Whipple Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720

Stark

330-494-5776

RICO Manufacturing

691 W. Liberty St., Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-723-4050

Leslie Equipment Co.

105 Tennis Center Drive, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-5255

General Rental

1606 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson

740-282-9588

Murphy Tractor & Equipment

1509 Raff Road SW, Canton, Ohio 44710

Stark

330-477-9304

Southeastern Equipment Co.

10874 E. Pike Road, Cambridge, OH

Guernsey

740-432-6303

E-Tank Rentals Ltd.

4113 Millennium Blvd. SE, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

888-703-8265

Capital City Group Inc.

46626 County Road 495, Coshocton, Ohio 43812

Coshocton

740-294-1003

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ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Leppo Rents

1634 Shepler Church Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-456-6800

JTK Rental & Construction

262 E. Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44244

Summit

330-239-1468

RDM Equipment Co.

1141 Mechanicsburg Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-264-8808

Miller & Company Portable Toilet Service Inc.

2400 Shepler Church Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

800-633-7004

Superior Safety

2811 Dover Zoar Road NE, Bolivar, Ohio 44612

Tuscarawas

330-874-9620

Ohio CAT

1016 E. Market St., Cadiz, Ohio 43907

Harrison

614-851-3576

Zoresco Equipment Co.

301 Lawton Ave., Monroe, Ohio 45050

Butler

513-360-2929

Frontier Tank Center Inc.

3800 Congress Parkway, Richfield, Ohio 44286

Summit

800-662-6344

TorqHoist Inc.

26001 Miles Road, Suite 2, Cleveland, Ohio 44128

Cuyahoga

216-292-5585

Hapco Inc.

390 Portage Blvd., Kent, Ohio 44240

Portage

800-345-9353

Premier Pump Inc.

4891 Van Epps Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44131

Cuyahoga

216-739-1600

Kraft Fluid Systems Inc.

14300 Foltz Parkway, Strongsville, Ohio 44149

Cuyahoga

800-257-1155

Hammelmann Hydro Test Pump Corp.

600 Progress Road, Dayton, Ohio 45449

Montgomery

937-859-8777

F L Tanks

1111 Gilman Ave., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-568-4636

SkimTech Inc.

843 Mayfield Drive, Youngstown, Ohio 44512

Mahoning

330-774-5044

Tiger General LLC

6867 Wooster Pike Road, Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-725-4949

Sutton Pump & Supply Inc.

2892 State Route 39 NE, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-364-5811

Ray Lewis and Co.

7235 State Route 45, Lisbon, Ohio 44432

Columbiana

330-424-9585

The Gorman-Rupp Co.

600 S. Airport Road, Mansfield, Ohio 44901

Richland

419-565-4251

Mid-Ohio Pump LLC

20021 Knox Lake Road, Fredericktown, Ohio 43019

Knox

740-507-8445

Fischer-Bush Equipment

2339 State Route 821, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-886-0611

The American Road Machinery Co.

401 Bridge St., Minerva, Ohio 44657

Stark

330-868-7724

Turn-Key Tunneling

1247 Stimmel Road, Columbus, Ohio 43223

Franklin

614-275-4832

J S Paris Excavating Inc.

12240 Commissioner Drive, North Jackson, Ohio 44451

Mahoning

330-538-9876

LANDSCAPE/EXCAVATING

Superior Enterprises Unlimited LLC

1245 Memory Lane N, Columbus, Ohio 43209

Franklin

614-452-3108

Beaver Excavating

2000 Beaver Place Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-478-2151

Williams Excavating LLC

8801 County Road 22A, Bloomingdale, Ohio 43910

Jefferson

740-937-2077

Marion Landscape Service

132 Union St., Marion, Ohio 43302

Marion

740-382-2941

Green Valley Seed

7472 Akron-Canfield Road, Canfield, Ohio 44406

Mahoning

330-533-4353

PLIDCO-The Pipe Line Development Co.

870 Canterbury Road, Westlake, Ohio 44256

Cuyahoga

440-871-5700

Bamcor, Machinery Rebuilding and Repair Specialists

4700 Briar Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44135

Cuyahoga

216-265-1100

AT&F (American Tank & Fabricating Co.)

12314 Elmwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44111

Cuyahoga

216-252-1500

MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS

Ericson Manufacturing Co.

4215 Hamann Parkway, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake

440-951-8000

C&B Machine Inc.

264 S. Tuscarawas Ave., Dover, Ohio 44622

Tuscarawas

330-602-7777

Barium & Chemicals Inc.

515 Kingsdale Road, Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson

740-282-9776

Applied Industrial Technologies

2801 Salt Springs Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning

330-799-8790

Samsel Supply

1285 Old River Road, Cleveland, OH 44113

Cuyahoga

216-241-0333

SSP Fittings

8250 Boyle Parkway, Twinsburg, OH 44087

Summit

330-425-4250

Cardinal Fastener

5185 Richmond Road, Cleveland, OH 44146

Cuyahoga

216-831-3800

Tribco Inc.

18901 Cranwood Parkway, Cleveland, OH 44128

Cuyahoga

216-486-2000

Shamrock Hose & Fittings Inc.

1771 Ivanhoe Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44112

Cuyahoga

216-224-9845

AMG Vanadium Inc.

60790 Southgate Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-825-9366

PWAbsorbents

1909 Oldmansfield Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

440-773-0561

Industrial Controls & Equipment

31100 Bainbridge Road, Solon, Ohio 44139

Cuyahoga

440-248-9400

Royal Chemical Co.

1755 Enterprise Parkway, Twinsburg, Ohio 44087

Summit

330-467-1300

Controlco Inc.

940 Taylor St., Elyria, Ohio 44035

Lorain

800-428-3705

HPE Inc.

2025 Harsh Ave. SE, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-833-3161

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MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS COMPANY

ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Summit Steel Corp.

16695 W. Park Circle Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023

Cuyahoga

800-232-7077

Etna Products Inc.

16824 Park Circle Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023

Cuyahoga

440-263-4773

V&M Star

2669 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Youngstown, Ohio 44510

Mahoning

330-742-6300

Metal Seal Precision

7333 Corporate Blvd., Mentor, Ohio 44060

Lake

440-255-8888

Youngstown Rubber Products Inc.

854 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44501

Mahoning

330-744-2158

Beacon Gasket & Seals - Oil & Gas

1610 Coutant Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107

Cuyahoga

216-276-3192

Metaltech Steel Co. LLC

113 Industry Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-8339

Trumbull Industries

1040 N. Meridian Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning

330-799-3333

Ebnerfab

224 Quadral Drive, Wadsworth, Ohio 44281

Medina

330-335-1890

Nationwide Industrial Supply Inc.

8414 South Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44514

Mahoning

330-758-9593

Kistler Fabricating Inc.

140 Dana St., Warren, Ohio 44483

Trumbull

330-393-9313

Michael Bradley & Co.

414 Greene St., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-8126

Cleveland Valve

8341 Whitewood, Brecksville, Ohio 44141

Cuyahoga

800-860-4284

Bor-It Manufacturing Co.

1687 Cleveland Ave., Ashland, Ohio 44805

Ashland

419-289-6639

Pipe-Valves Inc.

1200 E. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43219

Franklin

614-294-4971

Ohio Pipe Valves & Fittings

3900 Trent Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44109

Cuyahoga

216-631-6200

Ariel Corp.

35 Blackjack Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050

Knox

740-397-0311

Ohio Steel Industries

2575 Ferris Road, Columbus, Ohio 43224

Franklin

614-471-4800

Philpott Energy & Transportation Co.

1010 Industrial Parkway N, Brunswick, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-225-3344

Summers Rubber Co.

12555 Berea Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44111

Cuyahoga

216-941-7700

Chart Industries Inc.

One Infinity Corporate Centre Drive, Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125

Cuyahoga

440-753-1490

The Timken Co.

1835 Dueber Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-471-3832

Essential Sealing Products Inc.

10145 Queens Way, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023

Cuyahoga

440 543 8108

E-Pak Manufacturing LLC

1109 Pittsburgh Ave., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-804-6884

Kimble Custom Chassis Co.

1951 Reiser Ave. SE, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-308-6705

North Coast Seal

5163 W. 137th St., Brook Park, Ohio 44142

Cuyahoga

216-898-5000

Clearcreek

3790 State Route, New Waterford, Ohio 44445

Columbiana

330-892-0164

Ohio Oil Gathering II/Crosstex

P.O. Box 430, Frazeysburg, Ohio 43822

Muskingum

740-828-2892

Appalachian Energy

124 23rd St., New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-827-0466

Huffman-Bowers Inc.

450 S. State St., New Lexingon, Ohio 43764

Perry

740-342-5205

Cemenco Services

3010 Falls Lane, Zanesville, Ohio 43702

Muskingum

740-453-7447

OILFIELD SERVICE/SUPPLY

R.N. Industries

302 Jefferson Ave., Falls Creek, Pennsylvania 15840

Jefferson/Clearfield

814-372-0916

Formation Cementing

P.O. Box 2667, Zanesville, Ohio 43702

Muskingum

740-453-6926

Petroset Cementing Services

P.O. Box 1076, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-466-0177

Aqua-Clear Inc.

608 Virginia St. E., Charleston, West Virginia 25301

Kanawha

304-343-4792

Central Fiber

1525 Waynesburg Drive, Canton, Ohio 44707

Stark

330-452-2630

Worthington Industries

200 Old Wilson Bridge Road, Columbus, Ohio 43085

Franklin

800-338-8265

Torque Inc.

10115 Regatta Trail, Aurora, Ohio 44202

Portage

330-963-4124

Skycasters

1520 S. Arlington St., Akron, OH 44306

Summit

800-268-8653

Buckeye Drill Co. (Buckeye Supply Co.)

999 Zane St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-452-3641

US Safety Gear Inc.

4196 W. Market St., Leavittsburg, Ohio 44430

Trumbull

800-686-1459

APO Pumps & Compressors

6607 Chittenden, Hudson, Ohio 44236

Summit

330-650-1330

Baker Hughes

526 Edelweiss Village Parkway, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832

Tuscarawas

740-498-7900

Goss Supply Co.

620 Marietta St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-454-2571

Echo 24 Inc.

167-A Cypress St. SW, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068

Franklin

740-964-7082

Timco Inc.

57051 Marietta Road, Byesville, Ohio 43723

Guernsey

800-685-2554

United Industrial Sales Co.

4410 Glenbrook Road, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake

440-942-5678

United Chart Processors Inc.

1461 Masonic Park Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-5801

Bullseye Industrial Supply Corp.

628 Erie St. N, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-833-4990

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COMPANY/ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Riverview Industrial Supply Co. 1205 Gravel Bank Road Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-568-0432

Iron Eagle Enterprises LLC 4991 Belmont Ave. Youngstown, Ohio 44505

Mahoning

330-621-6253

Risk Control 360 5500 Glendon Court Dublin, Ohio 43016

Franklin

330-301-3262

Harmons Well Service 35355 state Route 26 Graysville, Ohio 45734

Monroe

740-934-2826

ECO Cleaning Systems 5644 E. Harbor Road Lakeside Marblehead, Ohio 43440

Ottawa

419-797-6624

Apex Supply Chain Technologies 7300 Central Parke Boulevard Mason, Ohio 45140

Warren

513-204-1702

AOT Inc. (Appalachian Oilfield Technologies Inc.) 8191 Township Road 102 Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Holmes

330-231-2076

BDI 8000 Hub Parkway Cleveland, Ohio 44125

Cuyahoga

216-642-2288

Computerized Mudlogging Service LLC 170 Sandy Court, Unit 5 New Middletown, Ohio 44442

Mahoning

330-540-0638

R.L. Laughlin & Co. 125 State Route 43 Hartville, Ohio 44632

Stark

330-587-1230

Utica Shale Housing Group LLC 3105 Crescentview Drive SW Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-268-6611

Fruhquip Inc. 357 N. Fifth St. Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-588-0681

Federal Process Corp.

4520 Richmond Road Cleveland, Ohio 44128

Cuyahoga

216-464-6440

Central Fiber LLC 1525 Waynesburg Drive SE Canton, Ohio 44707

Stark

330-452-2630

Buckeye Pumps Inc. 1311 Freese Works Place Galion, Ohio 44833

Crawford

419-468-7866

Producers Service Corp.

109 S. Graham St. Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-454-6253

Technical Products Inc. 3500 Ridge Road Cleveland, Ohio 44102

Cuyahoga

216-314-0220

Broad St. Services LLC 1871 state Route 550 Bartlett, Ohio 45713

Washington

614-228-0326

National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Downhole Tools 10369 Cardale St. SW Beach City, Ohio 44608

Stark

330-339-6516

Harbison-Fischer 3470 Old Wheeling Road Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-453-5991

OILFIELD SERVICE/SUPPLY COMPANY/ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Dover Hydraulics 2996 Progress St. Dover, Ohio 44622

Tuscarawas

800-394-1617

OCS Technologies Inc. 1300 E. Granger Road Cleveland, Ohio 44131

Cuyahoga

216-741-0224

E Pump 4113 Millennium Blvd. SE Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

888-703-8265

American Producers Supply 119 Second St. Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-5050

Apple Mobile Leasing Inc. 2871 W. 130th St. Hinckley, Ohio 44233

Medina

330-722-2004

Petta Enterprises 519 N. Seventh St. Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-705-3851

Rampp Group 20445 State Route 550 Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-272-7886

Pride of the Hills 8275 State Route 514 Big Prairie, Ohio 44611

Holmes

330-567-3108

BW Rogers Co. 1034 North Meridian Road Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning

216-543-3783

FRSafety 650 W. Smith Road, Suite C 14 Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

866-783-7977

Michael Bradley Apparatus LLC 116 Industry Road Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-348-3502

1st Choice Energy Services 1062 W. High Ave. New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

800-227-1062

Uni-Facs Steel Works LLC 1241 McKinley Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43222

Franklin

614-546-6171

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Godwin Pumps of America Inc. 300 Temple St. Painesville, Ohio 44077

Lake

440-357-6868

Holland Supply 8225 Green Meadows Drive N. Lewis Center, Ohio 43035

Franklin

740-549-6550

ORR Safety Corp.

9914 Windisch Road West Chester, Ohio 45069

Butler

513-910-9799

AMS Uniforms 1530 Canton Road Carrollton, Ohio 44615

Carroll

419-296-1398

Woolpert Inc. 9987 Carver Road, Suite 450 Cincinnati, Ohio 45224

Hamilton

513-272-8300

Coulson Compression & Measurement 7280 Rose Hill Road Roseville, Ohio 43777

Muskingum

740-697-0220

Hubbard Enterprises LLC 109 W. Chestnut St. Lancaster, Ohio 43130

Fairfield

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OILFIELD SERVICE/SUPPLY COMPANY

ADDRESS

COUNTY

PHONE

Big Oat’s Oil Field Supply Co.

38700 Pelton Road, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake

440-942-1800

Murdock Industrial Inc.

553 Carroll St., Akron, Ohio 44304

Summit

216-337-6001

Tribco Inc.

18901 Cranwood Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44128

Cuyahoga

216-486-2000

Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co.

99 Diamond Blvd., Streetsboro, Ohio 44241

Portage

330-388-6838

Ron’s Workingman’s Store

314 Cherry Ave. SE, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark

330-455-5051

Anchor Drilling Fluids USA Inc.

2400 Clark Ave., Wellsville, Ohio 43968

Columbiana

724-553-9172

Siemens Energy Inc. Oil & Gas Division

419 E. High Ave., New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663-2548

Tuscarawas

330-243-6882

RCW Industrial Solutions Inc.

429 Waynesburg Road SE, Canton, Ohio 44707

Stark

330-452-6548

Complete Hydraulic Service

10955 Industrial Parkway NW, Bolivar, Ohio 44612

Tuscarawas

330-874-1003

Cummins Bridgeway

9373 State Road, Strasburg, Ohio 44680

Tuscarawas

412-820-8300

Dearing Compressor & Pump Co.

3974 Simon Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44501

Mahoning

330-599-5720

Inland Tarp and Liner LLC

1600 N. Main St., Fostoria, Ohio 44830

Hancock

419-436-6001

Skycasters LLC

1520 S. Arlington St., Akron, Ohio 44306

Summit

330-785-2100

Mustang Aerial Services

27620 State Route 7, Reno, Ohio 45773

Washington

740-373-9262

H&W Trucking Inc.

15 W. Locust St., Newark, Ohio 43055

Licking

740-297-4351

LGSTX Services Inc.

145 Hunter Drive, Wilmington, Ohio 45177

Clinton

937-725-4233

Ergon Trucking Inc.

11117 Bachelor Road NW, Magnolia, Ohio 44643

Carroll

330-866-2550

Iron City Trucking LLC

3125 Wilson Ave., Campbell, Ohio 44405

Mahoning

330-755-2772

Allstate Peterbilt Group

8650 Brookpark Road, Brooklyn, Ohio 44129

Cuyahoga

216-335-9820

M&M Delivery LLC

53485 Marietta Road, Pleasant City, Ohio 43772

Guernsey

740-685-9600

Ohio Diesel FleetSupply Inc.

134 E. Woodland Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44502

Mahoning

330-744-4103

Hannah Truck Repair Ltd.

23220 County Road 621, Coshocton, Ohio 43812

Coshocton

740-622-8346

Truck Sales & Service Inc.

212 Pike St., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-837-8213

MACLTT

1400 Fairchild Ave., Kent, Ohio 44240

Portage

330-474-3795

L.T. Harnett Trucking, Inc.

852 State St., East Liverpool, Ohio 43920

Columbiana

330-382-9504

Trinity Logistics

3888 Jones Road, Diamond, Ohio 44412

Portage

330-654-4125

Hill International Trucks LLC

478666 Y and O Road, East Liverpool, Ohio 43920

Columbiana

866-272-6307

OIA Global

19987 Commerce Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44130

Cuyahoga

440-826-4400

ConAgg Logistics

3131 Columbus Road, Canton, Ohio 44708

Stark

330-454-7540

R-Way Transport Inc.

228 Technology Way, Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson

740-283-7929

C.H. Robinson Co.

5721 Shields Road, Canfield, Ohio 44406

Mahoning

330-533-4179

Allstate Peterbilt Group

327 Stone Creek Road, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-393-5555 330-307-5391

TRUCKING/TRANSPORTATION

Bullseye Oilfield Transportation

1800 N. River Road, Warren, Ohio 44483

Trumbull

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543 Snyder Road, Salem, Ohio 29456

Columbiana

570-337-7103

Tremcar USA Inc.

436 12th St. NE, Strasburg, Ohio 44680

Tuscarawas

330-878-7708

Premier Truck Sales

5800 W. Canal Road, Cleveland, OH

Cuyahoga

216-642-5000

AAA Wastewater Services Inc.

3677 Anthony Lane, Franklin, Ohio 45005

Warren

937-746-6361

Rettew Associates

5143 Stoneham Road, North Canton, Ohio 44720

Stark

717-344-1165

Wade Trim

1100 Superior Ave. E, Suite 1410, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Cuyahoga

800-841-0342

Clow Water Systems Co.

2266 S. Sixth St., Coshocton, Ohio 43812

Coshocton

740-291-1066

Smith-Comeskey Ground Water Science LLC

22 Edgewater Drive, Poland, Ohio 44514

Mahoning

330-787-0496

Alan Industrial Maintenance

1550 Likens Road, Marion, Ohio 43302

Marion

740-387-6593

U. S. Welding Training LLC

518 Fifth St., Fairport Harbor, Ohio 44077

Lake

440-669-9380

Robert Grim Welding Co.

1415 Brookdale Ave., East Palestine, Ohio 44413

Columbiana

330-426-4149

Matheson Tri Gas

61504 Southgate Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-439-5057

Welding Improvement

10070 Stookesberry Road, Lisbon, Ohio 44432

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