Cassandra Sundvall, LaValley Industries, USA, describes the introduction of a pipe handling attachment to securely grip pipe during lifting operations.
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“In 1984, Les Schultz founded Premay Pipeline Hauling, L.P. (Premay) in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) as a pipe hauling company focused on stockpile work in pipe yards and transporting pipe to the right-of-way during stringing operations. With an estimated 840 000 km of transmission, gathering and distribution pipelines within Canada, Premay has been at the forefront of many of Canada’s most successful pipeline construction projects over the past 35 years. When Paul Schultz took over from his father as Senior Vice President in 2003, he hoped to carry Premay’s success into a new era by committing to a plan of continual operational improvement, while remaining true to the four core values that his father had woven into Premay’s DNA: operational excellence, integrity, people focus, and safety…”