Maxim Crane Works, the largest crane rental and service provider in the U.S., announced the addition of a state-of-the-art facility in Richmond, Va., the fifth new branch for Maxim in 2020.
“Our Maxim team continues to successfully execute our strategy through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions,” said Bryan Carlisle, CEO of Maxim Crane Works. “As we add Virginia to our existing footprint of over 60 locations, we are confident that our newest location will ensure complete coverage throughout the entire Mid-Atlantic region.”
“Our Richmond expansion is a key component of our continuous improvement process to ensure that our customers receive total coverage anytime, anywhere in the U.S. Our team is hyper-focused on supporting our customers on every type of project and with our fleet of nearly 3,000 cranes. Our most valuable resource is our team. As Maxim adds new locations, we recognize the need to be local for local. We are pleased to be able to continue to provide jobs and futures for our current team as well as those who join us from the Greater Richmond area.”
“We have been able to support the Virginia market successfully on a project basis with tower, crawler and rough terrain cranes for many years,” said Frank Bardonaro, chief operating officer, Maxim Crane Works. “Our ability to remain the ‘perfect partner’ at a national level depends on identifying the needs of our customers today, anticipating their needs of tomorrow and partnering to find the ‘perfect’ solution. The expansion ensures our further support of our partners and their project work as well as the daily work throughout the region.”
Maxim Crane Works, Newport, Ky., is No. 5 on the RER 100.
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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.