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CRANES.

IT’S WHO WE ARE.

The Book

Essex Crane Rental Corp is the largest owner of traditional crawler cranes and Ringer attachments in North America

Growing Up Metric by

George Contos is a cdotes ofinsightsanecd business guide chock full of insights, anecdotes and practical advice from a man who took over Did you know traditional crawler the family business at the age of 32, and in the cranes typically outperform their span of 16 years grew it from $3 million per year hydraulic counterparts in saltwater to more than $20 million, with sites set on $50 and waterway environments due to million in the coming decade. I think anyone their limited electrical components? who works in a small to medium sized company

CRANE RENTAL + SALES – particularly a company with a family dynamic – will ? nd that many of the examples given and We can equip all of your marine and points made ring true. Contos is somewhat of a waterway projects with the highest visionary, and while he had the notion to write quality traditional Manitowoc and the book back in 2000, he realized that he sim- hydraulic Liebherr crawler cranes for ply didn’t have the experience … “I didn’t have sale or rent.

the stories” … to provide the intended impact.

CRANE PARTS + SERVICE

Sixteen years later he delivers a solid guide to business and life, an effort that is focused on the We have service centers strategically birth and growth of World Wide Metrics and his located across the country and lessons learned from the top. At the same time, dozens of the highest-factory trained it is far from self-centered, as Contos is quick to and field experienced technicians ladle out references – personally, professionally dedicated to servicing all makes and and published works – that have helped guide models of cranes.

him along the way. – G. Trauthwein

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Growing Up Metric by George Contos (888) 991-4100 is available on Amazon for $14.99 www.essexcrane.com

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