Business Description:
For-Tek is a supplier of utility poles, crossarms and specialty treated materials and services. The majority of sales are to utility companies in the northeast, under long term contracts. Other customer segments are marine, highway and general contractors, and municipalities. Additionally For-Tek has extensive experience in pole export for contracts and spot buying.

Facilities:
For-Tek's headquarters are in N.Billerica, Massachusetts, and has 7 distribution facilities throughout the Northeast. This network of distributing yards includes locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and multiple locations in new York.

Market Focus:
For-Tek was established to provide services that were lacking in the marketplace. These include:

• Prompt response to communications
• Extensive experience in product applications
• Regional inventory
• Reliable delivery on company equipment
• Storm related emergency service
• Local service and accountability
• Capacity to combine products from multiple suppliers to meet customer needs.

Major Utility Customers
Our primary customers are utility companies in the northeastern U.S. We have long standing relationships with these regional companies, and we sell to many on multiyear contracts. Some of these customers include:

Central Hudson: Central Hudson serves a population of 623,000 in a 2600 square mile area in Southeastern New York.

Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation: Niagara Mohawk serves more than 1.5 million customers throughout a 24,000 square mile area of upstate new York.

National Grid (Mass Electric): National Grid serves 1.4 million customers throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and new Hampshire.

Orange & Rockland Utilities: Orange & Rockland Utilities serves 273,600 customers in a 1,350 square mile area in southern New York State and adjacent sections of northern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania.

Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic): Supplier for three New England States.

Other customers include a variety of smaller regional utility and phone companies. 

Message For Utility Customers
We would like to reaffirm our commitment to providing our Utility Customers with the highest level of service, the most cost effective approaches, and continuously evolving programs to address your needs for product and support. We are aware of the important role that reliable vendor support can play in strengthening your utility's competitive position in the market for power.

We give our pledge to continually seek out improvements to the supply chain, which will address future needs with an eye towards improving cost structures in significant ways. 

Our service history will support the contention that choosing FOR-TEK is a 'no risk' decision. FOR-TEK's commitment to reliable service has been tested under normal and severe conditions for years. This history of service is repeated over and over again with the many utility customers who have placed their trust in FOR-TEK. 

Beyond our level of commitment, there are significant reasons that choosing FOR-TEK is a no risk decision. FOR-TEK enjoys a unique place in the market which gives us certain advantages over our competitors, and makes us a stronger supplier either for spot purchases or for single source of supply contracts which require large quantities of highly sought after pole sizes.

As a distributor with manufacturing alliances that have been forged over time, we have the ability to source product from a variety of facilities covering a wide geographical area. We are not driven by the impossible manufacturing task of matching pole sizes in production, which are uncontrollable and always unequal to demand, with our customer's needs.

Instead, we are driven to procure the pole sizes that our customers require in the quantities and at the times that they need them. We have the resource base to do it, we have the ability to keep inventory in order to compensate for supply and demand inequities, and we have the experience to make it all work. We are not burdened by an unpredictable and finite supply of pole sizes, the effects of local weather conditions, logging restrictions, shifts in customer requirements, or any of the events of a dynamic market that impact pricing and the ability to provide product.

FOR-TEK goes where the product is, and where it represents the best value for you, the customer.