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Executive Interview
Kate Lampson
Q: What has enabled Lampson to have so much long-term success?
Ever since my grandparents started the business almost eight decades ago, its philosophy has been to keep overhead low, do everything ourselves and never lose a customer.
That philosophy has served us well for three generations in the business, and it will continue to serve us well into the future.
Q: What are Lampson’ s key business offerings?
Lampson International provides heavy lift and heavy haul services to the petrochemical, nuclear, industrial, commercial and marine industries.
We buy, sell, manufacture, rent and re-manufacture cranes as well as manufacture our proprietary products: the Lampson Crawler Transporter and the Lampson Transi-Lift mobile cranes.
We also have a fleet of self-propelled and towable specialized trailers made by Goldhofer, Scheuerle, Nicholas and
Commetto. We use them in our own heavy haul services and also rent them to customers.
Besides heavy lift and heavy haul services, we provide customized engineering and rigging services, and use of our 850- ton pull-test system. We also operate the Columbia Pacific Transport trucking company.
Q: Do you foresee Lampson expanding to other continents?
We don’ t currently plan to expand, but anything is possible with the right opportunity.
Q: Is Lampson developing any new products or services that you can tell readers about?
As a reltatively new service, we now can use our Horizontal Hydraulic Pull- Test System to verify the strentgh of customers’ rigging components in capacities to 850 U. S. tons and total lengths to 100 feet.
Q: With friction rigs still a Lampson mainstay, how do you find and train operators?
We are always looking for skilled labor and great operators to maintain and run our equipment.
We use many resources to find qualified workers.
From word of mouth to career fairs spanning grade schools to colleges as well as FFA events and trade schools, we are seeing an interest in the construction industry.
It is also great to see organizations like the SC & RA, NCCCO, National Center for Construction Education and Research( NCCER), the AGC and well as all of the trades actively engaging to help with recruitment efforts.
Bright Future
By coupling innovative offerings with a multi-generational commitment to doing the right thing for customers, employees and the lifting industry as a whole, Kate Lampson and her family are poised to keep Lampson International a leader for decades to come.
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