Ace Rides Crest of a Wave After Marine Show Success

Ace World Companies continues to raise its profile in the marine industry having generated widespread interest in an exhibit at the International WorkBoat Show & Annual Conference, which took place December 3-5, 2014 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La.
It was the fourth time Ace had taken a booth at an exhibition and conference that attracts a delegation of high profile members of the marine industry responsible for buying decisions on world-class marine equipment and services worth millions of dollars annually.
Ken Land, national sales manager at Ace World Companies, noted port engineers, vice presidents of ship repair yards, independent vessel owners, boat builders and representatives from port authorities among visitors to Ace’s booth.
He said: “This was a good year for us at the WorkBoat Show and the interest we generated in our products has already started to pay off; we made many new contacts and have had several requests for quotes, in addition to catching up with existing customers.”
In 12 years at the company Land said he has seen three-fold growth from the marine sector alone. Overhead cranes and hoists for the shipbuilding market represent much of that activity but Ace technologies are also used on ships for other lifting and moving applications, while it also supplies the industry with transfer cars.
Land said: “It is a market we serve with both custom and standard products although most of it is custom-made for specific lifting operations. Typical loads include vessels and metal used in boat building processes but the marine sector offers huge variety in demand. Our transfer cars are used to launch boats into the water, for example.”
Ace’s vice president Camron Ghanemi expects to see continued growth from the marine sector and Land pointed to this year’s WorkBoat Show as a catalyst for that ongoing positivity. He said: “Our goal is to reach new customers each time we attend the show and we have achieved that every year; the 2014 show was no different.”
Furthermore, the industry in a wider sense is becoming more aware of overhead lifting equipment as a solution to its material handling problems. There are a myriad of possible applications for overhead cranes and hoists which can be put to work handling towboats, push boats, barges, patrol boats, fireboats and security vessels, to name just a few, in addition to participating in the huge variety of building, maintenance and transportation that is inherent to waterborne activity.