By Abbey Kanellakis, content development specialist,
[email protected] (Dublin office)
purchased Sawmiller LLC, a hardwood
pallet manufacturer in Hocking County.
To date, the move has been positive for
the company.
Manufacturing NO-DIG Pipe is a different
process from the clay pipes the com-
pany produced for over a century, but
the value associated with producing this
type of pipe has been worth it.
“Under different owners, Logan Clay
would have been shut down and auc-
tioned off,” Rudy said. “But my father,
who was president of the company until
April 2016 and now serves as chairman Rudy also credits Logan Clay’s longevity
of our board of directors, never wa- to the company’s high-quality employees.
vered. He believed that if we kept at it
we would survive. Today, by revenue, we “We have people, from office manag-
are three times the company we were in ers and accountants to plant managers
and production folks, who get up every
the depths of the recession.”
day and run each operation like it’s their
In 2014, Logan Clay began producing a own,” he said. “I have to do very little
new product line, NO-DIG® Pipe, which with regard to the day-to-day operation
has resulted in increased opportunity for of either business. It’s allowed me to
the company.
work on special projects, support man-
agers as needed and find opportunities
“The traditional method for installing any for further growth.”
utility is that you get a big excavator, dig
a trench and put the pipe in and cover “We really do have a great team here,”
it back up. It’s disruptive to traffic and Rudy continued. “Because of the hard
tears up the streets,” explained Rudy. work of our staff, I’m able to do what I
“With this new technology, machines can need to do to make this company better
now push our pipe from one pit to the – and that’s what it’s all about.”
other – no digging.”
To learn more about The Logan
“It’s more expensive than the convention- Clay Products Company, visit
al method of installation, but there are www.loganclaypipe.com.
lots of situations where it’s worth it not
to tear things up,” he continued.
Quality
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
OF CLAY PIPE, BRICK OR
ANYTHING MADE OUT OF CERAMIC
HUNDREDS, EVEN THOUSANDS, OF YEARS
AFTER IT WAS MADE, YOU’LL FIND THAT IT LOOKS
THE SAME TODAY AS THE DAY IT WAS MADE.
l o g a n c l ay p r e s i d e n t ,
RUDY BRANDT
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