Posted on: Saturday, May 28, 2005
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Merger to form contracting firm
Advertiser Staff
California-based Critchfield Mechanical Inc. has merged with Precision Mechanical of Honolulu to form a locally-based contracting firm called Critchfield Pacific.
Critchfield Mechanical, of Menlo Park. Calif., is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor that has worked on numerous projects in Hawai'i, including the Aloha Tower Marketplace, Nuuanu Towers and the Hawai'i Convention Center. Precision Mechanical is a mechanical contracting firm.
Joe Critchfield will serve as chairman of Critchfield Pacific. Ron Swenson and Gary Gribbon, formerly of Precision Mechanical, were named president and vice president of construction respectively.
Honolulu-based shipping agent Waldron Steamship Co. has agreed to form a joint venture with Norton Lilly International of Mobile, Ala. The joint venture, called Waldron Norton Lilly International, will begin operations July 1.
Bill Thayer, president and chief executive of closely held Waldron, retains those titles in the new venture. Vice President Dinesh Deogaonkar formerly was manager of Norton Lilly Hawaii.
All employees have been retained in the new agency, which operates out of Waldron's Pier 1 Control Tower Office.
Shipping agent in joint venture
