Electricity is powerful. It’s also dangerous. Main Lite Electric Company, Inc., a family-owned contractor based in Warren, ensures that its staff takes safety seriously every time it signs on for an electrical project. It’s more important to them to complete the work correctly, and safely, than to rush through a job and make a mistake…
If you were at the Mahoning Valley Scrappers home opener June 17 it was hard not to notice a huge presence from the NECA-IBEW Electricians. The group of union electrical contractors and members of IBEW Local 64 in Youngstown and IBEW Local 573 in Warren sponsored the post-game fireworks display, featured an ad in the game…
Volunteers from IBEW Local 573 in Warren teamed with the Trumbull 100 organization to hang nearly 100 flower baskets throughout downtown Warren this weekend. The community service project was formerly organized by longtime electrician, electrical contractor and community servant Bill Horton, who passed away last year. “This is Bill’s project. We’re just proud to carry on…
Mahoning Valley Scrappers players and front-office personnel offered pitching tips and a behind-the-scenes stadium tour to U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant James Skok and his family during Scrappers Media Day, Tuesday, June 12. The NECA-IBEW Electricians, who are sponsoring the June 17 opening night’s fireworks display, donated its first-pitch opportunity to the Skok family to honor James…
The current issue of the Business Journal includes a feature story on NECA-IBEW Electricians contractor Datacom Inc. and its recent move to a larger showroom to accommodate business growth. View the Business Journal article here. Last month we featured an article marking this news and other happenings at the North Lima-based electrical services shop. Datacom, founded…
There are many challenges when working with electricity. That’s why customers need an electrical contractor with the experience and know-how to provide a variety of solutions. University Electric has fit that profile in the Mahoning Valley for almost three decades. “We specialize in commercial and industrial building projects throughout northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania,” said…
For the past nearly 16 years, CR Electric and owner Jason Rubin have helped make the Liberty Township Relay for Life event one of the premier Relay for Life events in the Mahoning Valley. Rubin and his crew of employees, with some help from IBEW Local 64 in Youngstown, once again supplied temporary power to the…
In order to improve productivity and meet increased demand for data, voice, CCTV and access control systems, DataCom Inc. recently moved into a new, larger facility. The company had been at its previous location more than 19 years. “We just outgrew our old space,” explained Shawn Campbell, President and General Manager of DataCom Inc., now…
A team of approximately 20 volunteers from electrical contractor Joe Dickey Electric, journeymen electricians from IBEW Local 64 in Youngstown and residential apprentice electricians from the Youngstown Area Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee installed the rough electrical service at the Habitat for Humanity’s new home construction project in Austintown this past weekend. The home…
Retirees and active members of IBEW Local 573 once again volunteered their time to set up electrical service for the participants in this weekend’s Relay for Life on Warren’s Courthouse Square. The local union spent the morning wiring the Square, which included the installation of five new distribution panels it purchased to use at the event….