Newly combined BrandSafway is launched and ready to deliver high-performance and differentiated solutions to customers around the globe. "This is an exciting time for our industry overall and for BrandSafway specifically," said Bill Hayes, president and CEO of BrandSafway. "Our combined team's goal is to create history in a very important industry -- delivering critical industrial services that exceed the needs of our increasingly professional customer base, holding higher expectations for safety, efficiency, productivity and innovation."
The closing of the transaction that combined Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services and Safway® Group was announced June 22. The combined company has nearly $5 billion in revenue and approximately 32,000 employees across 350 sites globally.
"We're big, yes, but our obsession is to be the best in the industry," said Hayes. "While our size brings us capabilities, skills, talent and economies of scale, which we didn't have as separate companies, we know that our customers only care how we perform at the local site level. In fact, we're working hard every day not to act big. We will leverage our leading-edge best practices to ensure our local branches and teams are successful -- and that means safe, efficient, productive and responsive to our customers. We must remain nimble and fast."
Customer- and jobsite-focused culture
Although BrandSafway has more than 350 locations in 30 countries, the focus of the combined company is on building and supporting a culture of location and worksite centricity. "This focus will be at the center of who we are and how we provide value," explained Hayes. "We work tirelessly to make each of our locations and jobsites safe and successful every day. We place tremendous value on local management, local site supervision and local labor. Our commitment to our customers and our ability to be responsive on every one of our jobsites are unmatched. BrandSafway is your local industrial service provider."
Safety first and foremost
Both Brand and Safway bring world-class environmental, health and safety management systems and strong safety records to the combined company. "Keeping employees and customers safe is at the heart of everything we do," said Hayes. "We tell our employees that their most important job is to keep themselves -- and everyone else -- safe on-site. We tell them to speak up, intervene and own safety wherever they are."
Market-leading brands offer optimum solutions
BrandSafway encompasses over 30 brands, including world-class products like QuikDeck® Suspended Access System, Spider®, Power Climber Wind®, Aluma Beam®, Hünnebeck Forming Systems and Aluma EasySetâ¢, to name a few. By combining resources and best practices, Brand customers can now take advantage of Safway's depth and expertise in engineering, while Safway customers are now able to take advantage of Brand's refractory, specialty mechanical services, cathodic protection, expanded forming and shoring expertise, best-in-class operating, project management and information systems, and site measurement and controls.
In addition, the combined company employs more than 400 engineers who are supported by BrandNet®, BrandSafway's proprietary and industry-leading scaffold/access tool. BrandNet provides clients with a computer- aided design or CAD-based visualization of access scopes of work and key project management data such as hours, costs, materials data and much more to facilitate their access needs in three key areas:
- Strategy/constructability -- Validates approaches and innovative solutions.
- Integrated planning efforts -- Aligns access stakeholders and minimizes costly waste around scaffold rebuilds and modifications by leveraging core elements of the Construction Industry Institute's (CII) Best Practice Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) integration with industry-leading systems.
- Construction management/execution -- Visual and datacentric work packages allow teams to optimize both tool and non-tool time efforts, including pre-kitting, better communication processes and accountability.
Experienced teams leverage best practices
BrandSafway supports customers' facility maintenance, turnaround and refurbishments needs, as well as new construction, capital- driven upgrades and expansion plans. "Our newly combined products and services portfolio -- built on a rich history of prime companies and brands known for safety, innovation and outstanding performance -- allows us to offer the most productive solutions and site-specialized craft services to our customers," said Dave Witsken, president of the BrandSafway Global Energy and Industrial Business Unit. "Similarly, by leveraging our combined experience from over 8,000 jobsites at any time, we'll have the most depth and capacity of supervision and craft, and industry-leading best practices for worldclass execution."
Services and processes improve productivity
The strength of BrandSafway -- and the value it brings to its customers -- lies in the company's core expertise:
- Specialty services, site measurement and controls
- Excellent operating, project management and information systems
- The largest inventory of equipment and unique proprietary brands
- The most advanced engineering services and systems
- A heightened focus on continuous improvement
- An entrepreneurial spirit at its core
The primary go-to-market name of the combined company in the U.S. is BrandSafway, which will be used along with the other well known company brands. In Canada, the primary go-to-market names will be AlumaSafway, Brand Energy Solutions and Dalco.
"Our customers evaluate our teams' performance every single day," explained Jeff Sprau, president of the BrandSafway Global Commercial and Industrial Business Unit. "And for us to deliver maximum value, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent in the industry. We will also leverage the most advanced processes and systems available to support our people; our comprehensive combination plan will ensure we choose and implement the best practices from both organizations. By working together and driving a culture of continuous improvement, we can provide the broadest and widest range of services, products and solutions -- with the greatest depth of expertise -- to the industrial, commercial and infrastructure markets."
For more information, visit http:// brandsafway.com or call (800) 558-4772.
