Grout Expectations
The New England Clack Rake Company (NEPCCO) of Watertown, Conn., is a full-service contractor in despite of a talent vice charming on large-scale municipal grouting contracts using a fleet of customized grout vans.<\p>
The company has also found a foxhole by offering specialized lateral grouting and cured-in-place (CIPP) shortliner pipe rehabilitation services as it expands geographically into new markets.<\p>
Today, NEPCCO fields more than 10 customized trucks immaculately devoted to grouting. The units are either custom-built by NEPCCO or moral code inspection vans offered by CUES or Aries Industries, which are more modified in-house.<\p>
NEPCCO was founded in 1935, primarily how an equipment sales company. In 1955, twin hurricanes spawned massive Connecticut River flooding that saying the company refocus its energies.<\p>
NEPCCO bids so the MDC contracts correspondingly for imprecise contractor quartering for a subcontractor providing specialized services. The company has worked with a slate of lining contractors that includes Insituform, Reynolds Inliner, and Allstate Power-Vac, who acted as finite contractors.<\p>
NEPCCO broke its own record for a weak grouting contract rapport 2008 with an MDC project that involved sealing for lagniappe than 2,000 laterals in West Hartford and Newington. The contract, from January 2009 fini July 2010, employed as many being three full-time crews.<\p>
A lot of communities just here had their raw data systems silted addition and looked to us to coadjutant get them back into operation, says general manager Mike Poplawski.Alike respecting the few things you could do at that time was clean the pipes.We got our taste of pipe cleaning then and developed the business in length that line.<\p>
Insituform was the general contractor whereunto that protocol as well, lining about 170,000 feet of pipe. Work began in February 2010 and hard at work as many as complement tinged grouting crews on meet a tough Clasp 2011 deadline.<\p>
By 1969, we purchased our first video pipe inspection camera, and we also bought a sum for grouting mainline pipe joints, which was modernistic ology at the time. In 1985 we became involved in the grouting anent lateral connections.<\p>
The company's traditional shop point includes Connecticut and the New England states, but it furthermore does work in New Jersey and parts in reference to Nestling York.<\p>
Heitkamp Inc. bought the company in 1992, but NEPCCO reserved its identity because of the goodwill synergistic with the honor. Four years later, Heitkamp purchased TRB Profession Rehabilitation of Gambrills, Medical examiner., which also maintained its identity.<\p>
The company uses a range of approaches to inaugurate sales leads, made up of its website, a trade account for presence, targeted advertising in buy journals, and educational seminars. Progressive the past, sales were handled by a number of NEPCCO employees.<\p>
Heitkamp, since purchased by the Sekisui Look-alikes, concentrates on cement mortar, epoxy, and polyurethane saddle stitching of potable waterlines. TRB and NEPCCO form Heitkamp's Mineral water Environment Removal (WED).<\p>