Rodgers Joins Chant Engineering

Chant Engineering, New Britain, Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce the addition of Bill Rodgers to their sales and technical team.  Rodgers joined Chant in early July as their new Technical Sales Manager.  His new role focuses on calibration, new machine specifications and sales.  Prior to joining Chant Engineering, Rodgers worked as the Calibration Manager for Roberts Testing where he sold new services, offered on-site calibration of machines and serviced products throughout the U.S.

The Vertical Load Tester

Marcal Wire Rope & Rigging and AJT/ Robert’s Testing introduce the Vertical Load Tester.

Risk is a natural predisposition to any business.  Ask any icon and you will hear stories of decisive moments of risk that transformed their company.  Sam Walton turned a 2nd rate store in tiny Newport, Arkansas into the premiere discount retailer by creating a new business model based on offering low prices.  Bill Gates revolutionized the computer world when he dropped out of Harvard to create personal computers.  Businesses simply do not arrive at success by waiting for their turn.  They do so by taking on and managing risk.  After all, an entrepreneur is one who is willing to see the value of a good idea but the success only comes when he has the courage to make those ideas a reality.
In our field, amongst industry standards and growing demands for certified durability, rigging shops and manufacturers are continuously seeking to offer better, safer and stronger products.  During a down economy, it would seem understandable to simply tread water and wait for business to get better.  A large investment into a new product may be – for lack of a better word – risky.
Two years ago, Tom Miller did just that.  His company, Marcal Rope and Rigging, like many rigging shops, tested their fabricated lifting devices through the usual horizontal methods.  He continuously ran into issues while testing his spreader bars and lifting beams.  “After the fabrication of a device, we would either send the device out to another testing facility for testing – after which it would normally be returned damaged in some way – or we would spend 4-6 hours stacking steel weights, rent a crane for the lift and or build an additional device just for the testing process”, Miller stated.  “From start to finish, the entire process was horribly inefficient.”