vessels, and valve racks. In 2007, Pioneer opened a third facility,
which is exclusively used for stainless steel piping fabrication.
This facility is one of the largest stainless steel piping fabrication
facilities in the Eastern united states.
contractor in the Mid-ohio Valley to employ a full-time safety
director and implement a comprehensive safety program. The
company's safety record has been recognized with local and
national awards.
safety Awards from the national Maintenance Agreement
Policy Committee in Washington, d.C. for its safety record
in performing large-scale construction and maintenance
projects at various industrial facilities throughout Ohio and
West Virginia.
and ranked as one of the Top 100 mechanical contractors in
the united states by Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine.
their own business have made a go of it the plastic industry in
Marietta. The company Polymer services was established in
december of 1998 by shari Brown and Billie McClelland who
came to the realization about 10 years ago that they wanted
to own their own business and stop working for someone else.
toll processing company with eight employees. Toll processing
consists of taking a virgin material that has a problem (moisture,
metal, black specs or other contamination) and cleaning it up to
be sold from the original manufacturer as top quality. Without
toll processing, the plastics manufacturers would have to send
the material to a landfill or sell it off as a company loss.
father was employed with a local plastics manufacturing
industry for 35 years. After a short term at a plastics industry
in mid-life, she decided she wanted to own her own business
and enlisted the help of Billie McClelland to join her in a
business venture.
unlikely entrepreneurs, the two have worked hard and now
sales for 2007 and 2008 total more than $1 million. "now, 10
years later we are providing top quality services, optical sorting,
drying, screening, metal detection and removal, blending,
bagging, miscellaneous packaging and shipping to our local
plastic manufacturing companies," Brown said.