National Trench Safety Opens Seattle Branch

National Trench Safety, Houston-based company specializing in the rental and sale of trench shoring and traffic safety equipment, trench and traffic safety engineering, and OSHA-compliant training classes, has opened a new branch operation in Seattle.

Michael Roth

April 6, 2018

2 min read

National Trench Safety setting up trench shoring on a jobsite.

“We’re very pleased to be announcing the opening of our new Seattle operation,” said Ron Chilton, president of NTS. “Seattle has demonstrated strong, robust growth over the last few years and will allow us to strengthen and increase our support along the West Coast. We’ve been servicing this area for some time on larger projects and the opening is an extension of our need to better service our customer base.”

The Seattle operation will be led by Gene Nowlan, a trench-safety industry veteran. “Gene joined us almost two years ago and quickly demonstrated a proficiency to strengthen and lead branch operations. We are very excited about the prospects in the Seattle market given Gene’s experience and look forward to establishing NTS as the premier trench safety supplier in the market.”

The Seattle operation is the 33^rd branch location for National Trench Safety in the United States and England. The footprint enables NTS to provide its national, regional and local market customers a fully integrated, national branch network delivering unique engineered solutions, a high level of customer service and cost-effective shoring solutions.

NTS plans to open several additional branch locations during the next 12 months.

About the Author

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.