TANDEMLOC I


HAS PROGRESS LOCKED-IN BY WILLIAM S. FISKE, COLONEL, U.S. ARMY (RETIRED)


n the bustling town of Havelock, North Carolina, the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point provides excitement for all and employment for many. Home of the 2d Marine Air Wing with five deployable Marine Air Groups, Cherry Point also houses the Fleet Readiness Center (East).


A Tandemloc “Autoloc” 20 foot Container Lift Spreader with Wire Rope Sling standing by ready to lift. Every single Tandemloc lifting product arrives proof tested and ready for service.


18 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2013 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE


Tis large industrial hub provides depot-level maintenance, repair, and rebuild services for Naval Aviation assets worldwide. Te base serves as the East Coast point of embarkation for the Corps and has moved more than 35 tons of military equipment overseas in the last three years. Some two miles east of the Main Gate of the MCAS, on the other side of NC Highway 101, is another hotbed of industrial activity. Here, flying the national flag and an equally large OSHA Safety award flag is TANDEMLOC, Inc. Tis company designs, manufactures, proof-tests, and ships hardware to “lift, secure, fasten, and mobilize” loads to over 1 million pounds. In 1973, founder John M. DiMartino, Sr. created a manufacturing company on Long Island, New York, that produced marine transportation securing and mobilizing hardware. Te lifting, loading, and securing of ocean-going cargo containers required very special equipment to ensure safety underway. DiMartino designed and patented many container securing and fastening devices. His original company produced a fairly wide range of maritime-associated items for a variety of consumers, particularly the intermodal transportation industry—but, in the late 1970s and early ’80s, it became increasingly difficult to compete against foreign entries into that wider product market. Difficult times forced the company to close and regroup: to change its target market, to focus on the smaller, unique items, and to form a new industrial entity. In 1984, the new company, TANDEMLOC, Inc., was literally born in the basement of DiMartino’s home


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