SafwayAtlantic Acquires Assets of Hoist and Scaffold Provider All-Safe

BrandSafway and Safway Atlantic have acquired the assets of All-Safe LLC, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company that provides turnkey hoisting, scaffolding, shoring and bracing as well as jobsite protection solutions for commercial construction projects of any size.

Michael Roth

Aug. 23, 2017

A suspended scaffolding solution by Spider a BrandSafway company in Bellevue Wash recently enabling a glassinstallation job — A suspended scaffolding solution by Spider, a BrandSafway company, in Bellevue, Wash., recently, enabling a glass-installation job.

Safway Atlantic, a BrandSafway company, offers urban access solutions in the New York, New Jersey and Chicago metropolitan markets.

“This acquisition will strengthen our presence in the New York/New Jersey area,” said Keith Lynch, president of Safway/Atlantic. “All-Safe is a strong player in our market and is known for safely handling complex urban access challenges. All-Safe is a great fit for SafwayAtlantic.”

All-Safe’s operations – hoist and scaffold solutions supported by full inhouse engineering, permit expediting and hands-on project management – will be merged into SafwayAtlantic’s organization. “We look forward to combining our assets and expertise with SafwayAtlantic, a leader in delivering comprehensive, world-class urban access solutions,” said Dan O’Brien, co-owner of All-Safe. “This is an exciting opportunity for our business and employees to thrive and grow.”

All-Safe, a privately held company, has been owned and operated since 1996 by Dan O’Brien and Martin O’Donovan. All-Safe is known for its field personnel, project management skills and depth of technical expertise in engineering.

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Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.