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Filed Under
Georgia
Directional Drilling
Business Growth
Diversification
Employee
Ditch Witch
Dealer/Distributor
Vermeer
Drilling Equipment
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)
McLaughlin Group, Inc.
Vacuum Excavator
Radiodetection Corporation
Locator
Ground-Penetrating Radar
Digital Control, Inc.
Underground Magnetics Inc.
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The team at Underground Systems stands in front of a Vermeer D24x40 drill being pulled by a Ford 750 with a mixing tank. From left, James Gomez, Paul Heine, Jacob Heine, CEO Dana Hood, Everett Skeen, Jeramy McGee, Jose Valtierra, Andrew Minnick, Jose Garcia, Sean Gwin, Gelsey Hood, Nick Young, Michael Hood, Scottie Skipper, Vicente Garcia, Adam LeClair, and Adrian Vargas. Not pictured: Larry Wilcox.
For a clear-cut illustration of how investments in new technology can kick-start established companies and help them break into a different — and more lucrative — market, consider Underground Systems, a company that primarily does horizontal directional drilling for...
