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DISASTER RECOVERY
Puerto Rico is in need of a rebuilding of its power grid, including wooden poles.
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Mississippi company signs deal to provide power poles to Puerto Rico By JACK WEATHERLY jack.weatherly@msbusiness.com The Thomasson Co. of Philadelphia has signed a contract to provide 1,000 utility poles to the Puerto Rican national utility. The U.S. territory in the Caribbean was ravaged by Hurricane Maria in September
and its power company is running at about half capacity. Brent Gray, president of Thomasson, said the $1 million contact is for 55-foot wooden poles. Thomasson will send some of the order and “we’ll just have to see how it goes,” Gray said, declining to disclose how much of the order
will be sent. He called it a “decent-sized” order. The Puerto Electric Power Co., or PREPA, is owned by the Puerto Rican government and has come under criticism for its handling of a $300 million contract with a Mon-
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