NuWay Tobacco

CIC just completed a successful shutdown at NuWay Tobacco. This project included all of our core competencies, rigging, trucking, alignment, concrete work and millwrighting. Over a three week period our crews worked in concert with NuWay personnel and other contractors to completely overhaul the wrapping paper line as well as installing new rollers.

Whether your project is moving a Bridgeport from one side of your building to the other or if it is a complete overhaul and repair of an existing line, call us and see how we can help you be successful.

Jim Rice

Chicopee Industrial Contractors, CIC, would like to offer congratulations to Jim Rice, from the Boston Red Sox on his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Quiet, reserved and the quintessential power man

“It’s like being welcomed at home plate after hitting a walk-off home run,” Rice said, “I cannot think of anywhere I’d rather be than right here, right now.”

On Monday, the Red Sox gave Rice the ultimate salute of retiring his number 14. Rice becomes the seventh Red Sox player to have his number retired. He joins the likes of Bobby Doerr, Joe Cronin, Johnny Pesky, Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams and Carlton Fisk. Not bad company to be in.

Cal Denson was CIC’s Jim Rice. Quiet and reserved and the ultimate power man. Each year an employee is honored with the “Cal Denson Silver Hard Hat Award.” This recognizes the employee who best exemplifies Cal’s spirit and dedication through outstanding effort. The list of past winners reads like the CIC Hall of Fame…
• Cal Denson
• Bill Tyburski
• Gina Hawk
• Larry Scarbrough
• Skip Young
• Tom Canady
• Ron Cote

Other then Cal all of the above past winners are still employed at CIC. It is that dedication to the trade and the company that pays off in our performance. The above list brings nearly 150 years of experience to work with them everyday. This experience shows in everything that we do and the quality we strive to achieve.

Let our Hall of Fame come and work for you.

Economic Stimulus & Mortgage Reform

Recently, I attended a luncheon meet sponsored by the Chicopee Chamber of Commerce, where the presentation was entitled, “Future of Manufacturing in Massachusetts.” The presenters, Rick Pelliagrini the Industry Director for Manufacturing for the MA Office of Business Development and Glen Gertridge from MA MEP, spoke about the positive future for manufacturing in the Commonwealth and how Governor Patrick understands and is concerned about the welfare of manufacturing companies.

It was truly an amazing fact that nearly 300,000 jobs in Massachusetts are in the manufacturing sector. At the end of the presentation there was a question and answer session where there was noticeable feelings of anger, and a “We’ve heard this all before” from the attendees. Frankly, given the recent trends in government, it is hard to believe that any business can survive in Massachusetts.

I work for Chicopee Industrial Contractors, a small business concern that relies heavily on the manufacturing sector in the Commonwealth for our business. Small businesses account for the following according to statistics from the SBA:
• Represent 99.7% of all employer firms.
• Employ about half of all private sector employees.
• Pay nearly 45% of the total US private payroll.
• Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the last decade.
But…
• Small business spends 45 percent more per employee than larger firms to comply with federal regulations.
• The average employer with 20 employees pays $7,647 per employee in regulatory costs ($1,304 of this is tax compliance). The average cost for large firms is about $5,282.
• The insurance for small company health plans have higher administrative expenses.

As Ziad Abdelnour, President of New York based Blackhawk Partners recently wrote, “President Obama’s economic stimulus package does not address any of the needs or concerns of small business. The reality is that the “millions” of jobs that President Obama’s stimulus supposedly creates are government jobs. But what happens when those jobs are completed? Is everyone laid off again? Does President Obama pass another stimulus bill?”

“Very simply the math shows that regardless of how much we raise taxes in the future; there is no realistic way for the US to ever pay off this debt. The truth is that the president and Congress could have created economic stimulus by across-the-board tax cuts for all Americans, and tax incentives for businesses to hire new workers and use their capital for new purchases – instead of hundreds of billions of dollars to bolster federal and state welfare programs. They chose to expand government and increase people’s reliance on it, while the private sector, which pays the bills, is shrinking.” I couldn’t agree more.

If one also considers the mortgage bailout the estimated 90% of people who are paying their mortgages on time will see no benefit. Once again, those who play by the rules receive no benefit or relief while those who have taken advantage of the system and abused the rules keep taking and taking. This is another attempt at social engineering, when in reality these mortgages were forced upon the lenders, by the government. Inevitably these same mortgages will fail again in the future and who will be left to bail them out again? The private sector.

Governor Patrick stands ready to propose an increase in the cost of gasoline by 10% per gallon. It also appears that tolls on the MA Pike will rise regardless of the outcome of the increase in the gasoline tax. All for what reason? To pay off the debt of the big dig. The vast majority of the residents in Western MA have not seen, nor will they ever see, any benefit from this project and have been forced to pay more than their share to fund it.

So the question becomes, do you support the tightening of the noose around the neck of manufacturing and small business? Massachusetts and our Governor claim to be manufacturing and small business friendly, but the recent moves by the federal government and the proposed moves by Beacon Hill will make it virtually impossible for small business and manufacturing to survive.

For once, let’s have our leaders at the State level forget about their party affiliations and vote for what is right and best for their constituents. In these difficult economic times, any increase in taxes or fees cannot be in the best interest of anyone.

Rigging Plan

Rigging Plan Worksheet

 

Site of Installation:  New Hampshire                                                Job#:  9653

 

Mobile Crane Operations:

Please find the attached drawing inclusive of Tri-Lift TL150 capacities and load charts.

 

Blocking:                                                                                                                               

Oak hardwood.  (If Required.)

 

Total Weight of Lift:

70,000 lbs.

 

Description of Material to be Lifted:

Solar, Gas Turbine.  8’11” x 32’ x 7’ 10 ¼”

 

Pre-lift Meeting:

CIC Lead Person Tom Canady, CIC Crew (3) Ron Cote, Larry Scarborough, Tom Dart.  CIC management representative to document meeting.

 

Designated Signal Person: 

Tom Canady

 

Designated Person in Charge/OSHA Safety Check:

Tom Canady

 

Communication and Signals:

Hand signals.

 

Method of Accomplishment:

1. Warehouse to Truck:
   1. Please refer to the attached diagram:  (The diagram shows only one side of the turbine.)

                                                               i.      The turbine will be shackled to the tri lift using the four pick points provided by the manufacturer.

                                                              ii.      To ensure an even pick one side of the turbine will have an additional 1’ of sling used.

                                                            iii.      The Tri-Lift will lift the turbine.

                                                            iv.      A multi axle trailer will back in and the turbine will be placed for transportation.

1.       All appropriate binders will be used to secure the load.

 

 

 

 

1. Truck to Turbine Pad:
   1. The same hoisting plan as above will be used for the unload and placement.
   2. The Tri-Lift will be placed inside the building.
   3. The multi axle trailer will back into the building
   4. Using the above stated plan the turbine will be lifted off the trailer.
   5. The trailer will pull out of the building.
   6. The Tri-Lift will lower the turbine to a lower transport level.
   7. The Tri-Lift will move forward and set the turbine for final placement.

Succesful Project

Chicopee Industrial Contractors (CIC) was recently involved in the successful relocation of a wrapping machine for a paper manufacturer located in Berkshire County in MA. 

 

This complex move took all of our employees and employed the use of rigging, millwrights, construction, and trucking.  Our crews worked 24/7 to relocate the line and get it up and running in a 7 day time-frame. The forklifts and trucks ran non-stop while the crews worked tirelessly to get the customer up and running.  We at CIC feel privileged to have been chosen by this high profile customer to complete this project.

 

Chicopee Industrial Contractors is “The Permanent Solution to Your Temporary Problems.”  We prove this everyday and in every way through the response and service our crews provide.  Let CIC be your answer when the problems arise.    

Chicopee Industrial Contractors would like to congratulate the Boston Celtics on their 17th NBA Basketball Championship.  The Celtics epitomize unselfish team play.

When it comes to unselfish team play in the world of industrial contracting, Chicopee Industrial Contractors (CIC) is the undisputed champion.  Whether your needs are rigging, millwrights, construction, or temporary plant maintenance, CIC is “The Permanent Solution to Your Temporary Problems.”  Like the Celtics our crews demonstrate a total commitment to team play and a winning attitude in serving the customer’s needs.

Herman Melville wrote, “We cannot live for ourselves alone.  Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”  We are new to the blogging world and we look forward to sharing our successes, our trials and tribulations and those unique stories that define who we are as a company and who we are as human beings.  It is our hope that our actions will run as causes and return to us as results. 

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