We Have Been Greatly Blessed - But It's Time To Move On

To all our customers, we say, "Thank you! It has been our pleasure to serve you for the past 40 years." The business has been a blessing for many years and we see several ways to improve upon it. However, at the beginning of 2008, we decided to reevaluate our future in the industry. We had already determined that we wanted to restructure our business differently to better serve our customers and to expand into new opportunities. The highly unethical actions of an employee made the need for change even more apparent. We sought to hire several employees, each possessing broader talents and potential than our hires from previous years. After searching the local labor pool, we realized we would not find qualified personnel within the desired time frame. We determined that we might need to merge with another company that had already groomed some reliable employees possessing talent, discipline, and integrity. After a few months, we met with a company that was qualified and interested, but we both agreed that the timing wasn't quite right for their business to add our services. We are now entering discussions with another highly-qualified entity with an established history in the industry. In order to preserve capital, we have decided to put the business on hold for an undetermined period of time. If we complete a merger or find the right people to help us offer even more value to our customers, we'll be back, and better than ever!

We Can Refer You To Some Of The Other Strut Guys For Supply And Installation

Since we will not be providing products or installation services, we know that providing a good referral is the best way to honor our loyal customer base. If you feel uncomfortable using some of the strut guys with less design experience, feel free to contact us. We know several well-qualified distributors and installing contractors who are able to provide professional results for your project. If you need design assistance, we can still provide that service as a consultant.

Unistrut^® and other Metal Framing Systems ("strut")

Equipment Support Systems has been an installing stocking distributor / dealer of strut products for many years, and we have enjoyed sharing our knowledge of strut systems that comes from over 40 years of experience as a supplier in the metal framing system industry. We have helped design our customers' projects and selected the proper materials from a full range of Unistrut^®, B-Line^® Strut, or Power-Strut^® channel, fittings, brackets, clamps, concrete inserts, spring nuts, trolleys, etc. We also worked with structural steel, stainless steel, fiberglass, aluminum, and other metal framing systems. Because we were not required to sell a single manufacturer's product, we approached projects with the creativity and flexibility necessary to bring a project in on time and within budget. We know Unistrut construction techniques very well, but we were not limited to Unistrut construction.

Design Team Member

We often joined a project design team as specialists in the design of X-ray supports and other medical equipment supports, and various other construction, industrial, and overhead supports. As an active member of design teams, we were constantly working with architects, engineers, contractors, OEM's, end users, hospitals, equipment manufacturers, industrial and institutional customers, and other trades on a construction project. Our background in early project design, coordination and value engineering has saved thousands of dollars for our clients.

Creativity At Work

Our history includes creatively simple solutions to seemingly difficult problems. For example, our president literally invented the Telestrut^® Telescoping Strut System now manufactured by Unistrut Corporation. Unistrut describes Telestrut as "one of the most significant innovations in multi-purpose support systems since the invention of the original Unistrut metal framing system in 1924." ^{[video 11:30 20MB]} We appreciate the compliment. Whether building an x-ray support or other application, we continued to develop innovative designs and systems.

Licensed Installation Contractor serving NM, AZ, CO, TX, OK, KS, WY, MO

In addition to supplying and designing with strut, we are also a licensed installation contractor, which allowed us to design, supply and install projects throughout New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, and Missouri. Years of experience installing Unistrut^®, B-Line^® Strut, and Power-Strut^® taught us how to complete a project quickly, which simplified trade coordination and saved our customers valuable schedule time and money.

CAD - Computer Aided Drafting Using AutoCAD^® 2008

To increase our value to the design team, we continually invested in computer hardware, software and training to provide high quality 2-D and 3-D drawings. By staying current with the most recent version of AutoCAD^® (currently AutoCAD^® 2009), and through the use of internet-based communications and other software, we could collaborate with the design team accurately and efficiently. We could work with the current AutoCAD^® 2009 file format (same as AutoCAD^® 2008 & 2007), as well as the legacy formats of AutoCAD^® R12, AutoCAD^® R14, AutoCAD^® 2000, AutoCAD^® 2004 (same as AutoCAD^® 2005 & AutoCAD^® 2006). We could create and read DWG, DXF, DWF, PDF, TIF, BMP, JPG and GIF file formats, and could read CAL, PLN, OST, COE and other file formats.

Small Business Resourcefulness and Flexibility

Equipment Support Systems is a licensed and insured New Mexico corporation, and is classified as a small business. If your project had small business set-aside requirements, we could help satisfy that requirement while giving you the confidence that your supports would be properly designed and installed. Our smaller size also allowed us the flexibility to approach each project in a creative way. Although we had standard bookkeeping and accounting systems, we were not tied down by constrictive bureaucratic procedures, and could work with most contracting scenarios.

Catalogs and Literature

We have added several on-line catalogs to our website, including complete catalogs for Unistrut^®, B-Line^® Strut, and Power-Strut^® systems. Just click on a catalog on the right side of the page or go to the Products page, and follow the links. We will be updating our online library.