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Tony Mazzella Looks to Turn Mazzella Companies’ Size Into an Asset
As featured in Smart Business Magazine
Mazzella Cos. has grown significantly under second-generation leader Tony Mazzella, from 42 employees and two locations in 1988 when he took over the business to more than 800 employees and 30 locations today.
He not only grew the original lifting and rigging business that his father, Mazzella Cos. founder James Mazzella Sr., started, but also branched out, adding an architectural metals business in 2004 that provides painted metal. And in 2015, he grew that to include portable roll forming equipment for architectural metal. But while bigger has its benefits, activating those benefits takes strategic effort.
Rigging a Load – Just Like Playing a Round of Golf!
As featured in Crane Hotline Magazine
I enjoy playing golf when I’m not leading a training class or on-site helping out a customer. I recently traveled to Nashville and played a round of golf at the beautiful Gaylord Springs Golf Links course.
As I arrived to play 18 holes at a course I’ve never played before, I thought to myself, “Planning for and rigging a load is a lot like playing a round of golf!” I know what you’re thinking … but stay with me. Let’s start the “round” or “lift” and I’ll walk you through my line of thinking!
Celebrating 63 Years In Business – Mazzella Companies
As featured in Smart Business Magazine
In 1954, James Mazzella started his own business, called Mazzella Wire Rope & Sling, and began making wire rope slings that were braided by hand. It wasn’t the cleanest and certainly not the easiest job around, but Mazzella was supplying an essential tool to construction businesses and industries all across Northeast Ohio.
The Mazzella Companies
As featured in Business View Magazine
Mazzella Companies is 60 years old. Current CEO, Tony Mazzella, recounts how the original company was founded by his father in 1954: “My dad got into the wire rope and sling-making business because of his father, who invented several types of wire rope slings. My grandfather, Antonio Mazzella, patented five wire rope slings and sold his patents to a wire rope company. My dad and grandfather went to work for that company and started their first wire rope shop. This was back I the early 1940s when my dad was a young kid. He went to work right after his sophomore year in high school. He ended up going into the Service and when he came out and married my Mom, he moved from New Haven, Connecticut to Charleston, West Virginia.”
A Legacy In The Making
As featured in Business In Focus
The company is a one-stop shop for the highest quality products and service and gives its customers confidence and satisfaction in the quality of its products, people and approach.
Although Mazzella Companies was founded in 1954, its history in the industry dates back further, as the Mazzella family has been involved in the lifting and rigging business for generations. Speaking with Tony Mazzella, CEO of Mazzella Companies, one quickly gets a sense of the pride he has for his family’s history of success in the industry.
Tony’s grandfather invented wire rope slings and sold those patents to a wire rope company for which he and his son, James, would work. James would eventually go into the service and, upon his return, continued to braid wire rope slings by hand.