Steven Halbert

TransTech -AIST Show Opening

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May
6

We arrived this morning and assembled the remainder of the booth. See the pictures below:

Panorama 1

Panorama 2

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

Shot 4

Shot 5

Shot 6

Shot 7

Shot 8

This has been a good show so far … We’ve had a lot if good contacts … I am pleased with the first day.

Steven Halbert

TransTech at AIST 2013 – Setup Day 2

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May
5

Got in Early This Morning to Finish up
(have a few things to pick up at Home Depot, and we’ll finish up tomorrow morning)

Completed Booth (angle 1)

Completed Booth (angle 2)

Completed Booth (angle 3)

Completed Booth (panorama … look how close to the entrance we are!)

At this year’s show, we are displaying our V Bar (4 runs) with four of our Dual Arm Collectors. We are also displaying a large Transductor with an LM Standard Collector and an HJ Bar with a Gravity Shoe Collector. Also on this display unit we have a short run of the AKAPP Multiconductor (with trolley) and a short run of RediBAR (with collector).

On the back panels we have a Parallel Arm Collector (not up yet), several of our other conductor bars (H Bar, HV Bar, HC Bar, C Bar, V Bar), and a few of our Collector Shoes.

Steven Halbert

TransTech at AIST 2013 – Setup Day 1

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May
4

Just Arriving

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view from the entrance (our booth is in a great spot!)

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view of naked booth

After First Day of Setup

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first day work (shot 1)

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first day work (shot 2)

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first day work (shot 3)

Leigh Powell

TransTech Appears in “Fast Lane”- The Official Blog of the U.S. Secretary of Transportation

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Mar
12

TransTech is excited to be featured in “Fast Lane!”
Please check out the blog via the link below:

 

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2013/02/guest-blogger-fta-administrator-peter-rogoff-making-america-a-magnet-for-jobs-and-manufacturing.html#.UTdethzFX-0

ian

Leigh Powell

FTA Administrator Visits TransTech

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Mar
12

Piedmont, SC, February 22, 2013:  Peter Rogoff, Administrator of the United States Federal Transit Administration, visited TransTech of South Carolina on Friday, February 22nd.  As a member of the Fandstan Electric Group, TransTech engineers and manufactures solutions to power moving machines – including electric trains – by bringing fresh ideas to old technologies like pantographs and third rail.

During his visit, Mr. Rogoff noted that the components made at TransTech’s facility – located in the upstate of South Carolina – serve “easily half the transit ridership in the United States . . .when you add together Long Island Railroad, Metro North, and LA Metro, and subway systems in New York, and METRA in Chicago . . . they easily cover maybe even close to 60%, maybe more.”

As his visit began, TransTech’s President, Ian Paradis, introduced Mr. Rogoff to TransTech’s unique ability to provide holistic solutions for both the trainborne (i.e. electricity collectors like pantographs, shoegear, and ground return units) and wayside (i.e. electrification components like third rail and overhead catenary) applications within the transit industry.  Mr. Rogoff seemed especially interested in TransTech’s development of Stainless-Steel Capped Aluminum Rail, which allows for greater electrical conductivity, lower voltage drop, lower installation costs, and more distance between charging stations.  Mr. Rogoff applauded TransTech for being “innovators in our industry” and further noted that TransTech is “a company on the grow . . . coming up with new innovations to make those products perform better and be more affordable.”

After his brief meeting with TransTech’s president and management team, Mr. Rogoff toured the facility where he shook hands and spoke with several of the workers.  He seemed thrilled to look at, handle, and learn about many of the electrification components that were in production  (see picture of Mr. Rogoff, center, studying a pantograph with TransTech President, Ian Paradis, left, and Engineering Manager, Stacy Smith, right).

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Following his tour, Mr. Rogoff spoke briefly to the full staff of TransTech.  In his speech, he explained that, due to the swiftly rising gas prices, “there is a certain inevitability about transit in the United States,” and he said that the Federal Transit Authority is “very grateful” for the “creativity and innovation that folks in our company [are] exhibiting” in order to have our components “do some very important things for millions of people.”

 

Steven Halbert

ProMat Days 2-3

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Jan
24

Hello Again from the Beautiful Frozen Urban Jungle of Chicago!

I didn’t post yesterday because I was fighting with a video file that I wanted to upload and just couldn’t get to work. I finally gave up, and decided to do a quick recap of the last two days.

    Tuesday

The big news was that Ian got interviewed on Tuesday (I have footage of the interview that Wayne shot, but I couldn’t get the video file to work). I took a picture of it below:

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One thing I learned is that when there is a large, professional-looking camera filming someone or something, people naturally stop to see what is going on. I am thinking of integrating this into our show strategy. Get a nice camera, and, when there aren’t very many people coming by, bring someone out and interview them. It attracts people and draws them in (and they hear about your product)!

There have been quite a few folks that have come by the booth and quite a number of good leads. It has also been good to connect with the reps agains.

Also, as a side note, Steve Forbes stopped by the show, so that was kind of cool:

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    Wednesday


I was not at the booth a whole lot today, because I went to visit a customer while Wayne was holding down the fort. Apparently today was the day of the competitors … Two of out competitors came by the booth. I think I will go visit them tomorrow. It has been really good to get to know Wayne this week. Hopefully we’ll get the crate back quickly tomorrow and we can get it packed up before they close down at eight.
Multiple people have asked how the show is going, and my response has been that I feel like we are getting more and better leads than at our previous trade show. So far most of the folks who have come by have shown some serious interest and seem to be decision-makers.
Now it’s time for bed. I have another customer visit to make tomorrow. I’ll leave you with this Chicago picture:

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Steven Halbert

ProMat 2013 – Day 1

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Jan
21

Good Day from the Cold City of Chicago,

Today was the first day of the ProMat Show, and I thought it went very well. Everything looked really good! Here is a video from before the show really got started (this video didn’t really get to compress, so it might take a minute to upload):

ProMat 2013 Booth – Day 1

Next I have included some photos of our booth, and what we like to refer to as Engineering on a Stick!

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We had a number of potential customers come by and ask about the AKAPP Multiconductor, the AKAPP Productor, and the RediBAR. We also had a few folks talk to us about Delta Star, and, believe it or not, one person even asked about our third rail!

We did a lot of explaining in regards to Aeromotive to Woodhead, to MOLEX, to us; so, overall it seemed like a successful day. Thanks again to everyone who had a hand in making it happen!

 

Steven Halbert

ProMat 2013

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Jan
20

Good Cold Windy Day from the Cold Windy City!

We made it up here yesterday and began setting up for the ProMat 2013 show in Chicago.  We got quite a bit done, and returned today to finish up.  We are really trying to display the AKAPP Multiconductor, the AKAPP Productor, and the RediBAR products at this show.  We are also displaying many of the Delta Star products.  There is so much I could say, but I am very tired (setting up for a day-and-a-half will do that to you).  So I’ll leave you with this:

ProMat 2013 Setup

Lastly, I said it in the video, but I’ll say it again.  There were a lot of people who helped make this possible.  We have a great team at TransTech, and I want to take a minute to thank the team for all their hard work.  It looks great!

Thanks,

–Steven

Steven Halbert

More from InnoTrans 2012

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Sep
21

Hey All,

Today is the final day of InnoTrans 2012, and I finally have the opportunity to connect my phone to wi-fi so I can post a few of the videos I took. These are from the outside train exhibit. Tomorrow the tear down process will begin, and I can’t imagine having to coordinate tearing down some of these booths and displays.

Trains

More Trains

Even More Trains

Also, I saw a model of the M8 Car at the Kawasaki booth. The M8 Car is equipped with TransTech pantographs! Very Cool!

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All in all, InnoTrans was pretty amazing. Our sister companies, Stemmann Technik and Brecknell Willis, created a very cohesive and unified booth and were able to display our pantographs, third rail, shoe gear, Frost® grounding brushes, and carbon collectors for pantograph head assemblies. Furthermore, both Stemmann and Bombardier were displaying the Variopanto which they worked on together. And, as I walked around, I saw a few other joint ventures which Stemmann has their hand in. It was good to see Stemmann having such a wide ranging influence on the transit market, and I think everyone was pleased with the outcome of this year’s InnoTrans.

Steven Halbert

InnoTrans 2012

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Sep
18

So we made it to InnoTrans 2012! Our sister companies in the Fandstan Electric Group – Stemmann-Technik and Brecknell Willis – coordinated the booth this year, and it looks great! Many of the displays were fully functional! Below is a short pictorial tour:

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The entire booth!

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The Pantograph display!

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Our TransTech Shoe Gear on display!

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The sister companies all represented on the meeting room dividers!

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The Variopanto (adjustable head pantograph)

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Frost® Ground Brushes

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Third Rail Shoe Gear display!

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Third Rail!