Bigge Opens South Carolina Location

July 21, 2010 — Bigge Crane and Rigging, San Leandro, Calif., recently opened a new location in Aiken, S.C., offering bare crane rental in South Carolina and the entire Gulf Coast region including Florida, Georgia and Alabama.

Bigge rents rough-terrain, all-terrain, and crawler cranes, as well as carry decks and boom trucks from this new location. Along with sister locations in Houston, Texas, and Richmond, Va., Bigge now claims to have the largest rough-terrain crane fleet in the southeastern U.S., and covers the entire southeastern region from Pennsylvania to Texas.

 

The company’s Houston, Texas, branch, which opened in January, has expanded to incorporate a growing sales and service staff. Working from its Houston location more, Bigge reported it has recently taken on numerous wind farm projects, and is starting to coordinate heavy transportation projects, in that region through its Houston facility.

 

Bigge’s Richmond, Va., location provides heavy lift, heavy transportation and crane rental for the entire eastern seaboard. The location specializes in servicing the refinery and power industry sectors, including heavy-lift and transport projects required by nuclear plant decommission, coal and gas plant maintenance, and wind turbine erection and maintenance. Bigge Richmond also has experience in new construction of coal and gas-fired combustion turbines, as well as fossil fuel plant maintenance, according to the company.

 

 “Though we have always provided nationwide bare rental,” said Joe Nelms, vice president of sales and marketing, “being local to our customers in the South has allowed us to be a lot more competitive with the established firms there. As we are consistently growing, we’ve found our customers prefer that our fleet is generally newer and better maintained.”