Industrial First can do it all!
Specializing in single-source service
Industrial First Inc. is a specialty construction service organization
founded in 1936 that offers a diversified number of traditionally independent
construction services from a single source. Thus, it offers customers round-the-clock
delivery of a wide variety of services for the management and supply of
labor, equipment and materials. Services include roofing, application of
waterproofing and protective coatings, architectural and industrial sheet
metal fabrication and installation, steel erection and light steel fabrication.
Industrial First also provides heavy and specialized in-plant rigging
and erection services, while it also performs millwork and boilermaker work
and furnishes or erects metal siding, metal decking, precast and natural
stone. Other services: rebar replacement and erection of tower cranes and
personnel and material hoists, in addition to rigging and certified high
pressure welding of heavy fabrications and specialized equipment.
Industrial First is headquartered in Cleveland, with a Columbus branch
to serve the growing Central Ohio region. The trades employed to handle
this wide variety of work include ironworkers, millwrights, boilermakers,
roofers, sheet metal workers, operating engineers and teamsters.
Even more service
Industrial First offers two service divisions that help the company cover
the complete spectrum of customer needs in the construction industry.
Shippers Highway Express Inc. handles the warehousing, LTL trucking and
rigging for construction companies for mechanical, electrical, medical and
telecommunications equipment as well as crane service, equipment demolition
and disposal and inventory management of warehoused equipment. Located at
16400 Miles Avenue, it is managed by Jess Cameron.
Construction Materials Inc. is a distributor of mechanical and industrial
insulation products based in Cleveland and Columbus, serving owners and
contractors in northern and central Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. It
supplies pipe insulation products; flat insulation; flexible blanket or
batt insulation; high temperature mineral wools; air handling rolls and
boards; refrigeration insulation; PVC and aluminum rolls and fittings; insulation
jacketings; tapes for insulation, fitting covers and other products; pin
fastening equipment for insulation lining; fastening, bending and attachment
items; textiles; adhesives, mastics and coatings; specialized fabricated
products and specialized exterior insulation, as well as accessories, installation
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Industrial First's many successes
Industrial First has handled projects in all markets and in a wide variety
of areas:
Education
Cleveland State University's Fenn Tower (structural steel)
Geneva High School (roofing and sheet metal)
Independence High School (sheet metal)
Kenston High School (roofing and sheet metal)
Kent State University (roofing)
Healthcare
Cleveland Clinic H Bldg. (roofing)
Hillcrest Hospital (structural steel, misc. steel and sheet metal, roofing)
South Pointe Hospital (roofing and sheet metal)
Trumbull Memorial Hospital (roofing and sheet metal)
Retail
Crocker Park BE Bldg. (structural steel), DNE Bldg. (structural
steel), GE Bldg. (structural steel), Barnes & Noble (structural steel)
Legacy Village Galyans (structural steel)
National City Bank (roofing and sheet metal)
Industrial
Ford Motor Co. Cleveland Casting Plant (structural steel and roofing)
Ford Motor Co. Engine Plant #1 (roofing)
Ford Motor Co. Roof Slabs (structural steel and roofing)
Public and other
Cleveland Data Center (structural steel, roofing, sheet metal)
Cleveland Hopkins Airport (roofing and sheet metal)
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center (roofing)
Lorain City Justice Center (structural steel)
Triskett Rd.Rapid Station of the Regional Transit Authority (roofing)
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Short-term or long-haul, Industrial First is there
Industrial First offers a wealth of special services that will meet customers
needs, from a roof asset management program that serves long-term needs
to an emergency hotline that serves immediately. Here they are:
Roof Asset Management Program: This focuses on a roof as a financial
asset of an organization, helping it to save money and conserve cash by
extending the life of its roof. This can be done by more timely maintenance
and more efficient use of maintenance dollars as well as by sharing the
cost of maintenance with suppliers whose guarantees remain in force. The
program provides managers with better tools to control the cashflow for
maintenance and capital expenditures. It uses a database information system
that collects necessary information on every roof included in the program
on an ongoing basis and then organizes and presents data in reports necessary
to the process of roof management.
Emergency Hotline: Industrial First maintains a 24-hour emergency
hotline to help customers with unforeseen problems at 216-861-8667. The
hotline uses the latest in wireless and paging technology to connect users
to the authoritative help they need.
Safety first
But to assure both right-now security and down-the-road protection, Industrial
First offers a simple safety philosophy: Because the firm believes that
accidents and injuries are preventable, it knows that every operation can
be performed safely and that no job is so important that workers cannot
take the time to build safety into the tasks, as this ultimately makes each
task more orderly and efficient. All personnel, from officers and managers
to employees, must accept responsibility for preventing accidents and injuries.
Steps to this include adherence to the safety philosophy; a safety handbook;
a comprehensive training program; job safety meetings on each site at least
monthly; Tool Box safety meetings on a weekly basis; use of required safety
equipment, kept in good working condition and meeting code requirements,
and hard hats; yearly first aid training, procedures to follow in case of
accident; and fire watches when welding or burning operations are in progress.
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