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Welcome to Original!
39 Years of Concrete Pumping Experience.
Buy- Sell -Rent -Lease - Parts and Service
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Company History
The
following, will provide a brief look into the history of
Original Concrete Pumping Service, Inc., just who we are and
how we came to be.
I began my
life's work in 1963 at a Concrete Contracting Company
located in Chicago, owned and operated by my family.
The question
of how to improve concrete placement for larger buildings
and other hard to reach applications was often raised. After
a bit of research, it was discovered, that Concrete Pumping
trucks were being utilized in Europe for such applications.
This discovery soon led to the purchase of our very first
Concrete Pumping truck.
In 1964 I
took over the full operations of the family business, and
quickly realized that something had to be done to increase
the profitability of the accumulated equipment. I decided to
rent some of our equipment to other Concrete Contractors.
This proved to be quite an interesting and profitable
endeavor, thus prompting me to close the family contracting
company and formally begin Original Concrete Pumping
Service, Inc..
Over the
next 10 years we accumulated quite a few concrete pumps,
bringing us to the question of what else can we do to
increase our market share in this part of the industry.. Our
answer, begin to sell & service the concrete pumping
equipment. So, we began to buy and sell used concrete pumps
by acting as brokers and we became one of only two concrete
pump service centers in the Chicago-Metro Area.
In 1980 we
added our first full-time Sales Manager, allowing us to
shift our emphasis from the smaller Concrete Contractors to
the larger volume commercial Concrete Contractors. That part
of the industry has a great demand for larger and higher
volume machinery, exactly what we were selling.
The Chicago-Metro area,
by all indications and publications, was enjoying an economic boom in
large commercial, privately and Federally funded work. This brought
with it purchase orders from contractors doing work for the Army Corps
of Engineers, the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago and others,
all as we geared up for the Worlds Fair in 1992.
As the years
have progressed, our fleet has grown considerably to include
Conveyors and various types of Concrete Pumping equipment,
including the largest Concrete Pump in the area.
Based on
current work projections, we have plans to use many of our
machines ourselves in the Chicago-Metro area and lease out a
few additional machines to local Contractors.
Overall, we are anticipating
continued growth in the foreseeable future, along with plans to expand
our area of operations to additional states.
Harvey
V. Hoyer
President
ACPA Operator
Certification - insist on it.
840 Fairway Drive
Bensenville, Illinois, 60106
Telephone (630) 860-1100
Sales Office Fax (630) 860-1102
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