STATE FOCUS | TENNESSEE
The Tennessee Titan’s Nissan Stadium is due for completion in 2027, with 60,000 seats and an estimated cost circa $2bn.
with customers to design and manufacture custom cranes, as well as offering training and maintenance services, says: “We saw many projects funded federally, and it definitely created a growth opportunity for our company.” But it’s not just construction. Across different industries in the private sector, Barrett Firearms is expanding its headquarters, Amazon has built new warehouses, and Walmart is expanding warehouse square footage, and despite wobbles, Nissan is still a major player in the state. Here, for
the many crane and hoist businesses that supply everything from skid systems and conveyors to bridge cranes and monorails, there is a clear customer base with money to spend. Indeed, the manufacturing sector, a critical client base for crane and hoist suppliers, is hugely important within the state boundaries. By the end of the financial year 2023, it was worth 13.4% of Tennessee's GDP, with employees taking home $15,000 per annum more than the non-farm average.
Yet, Tennessee business isn’t all on the
gargantuan side. In construction, for example, it’s residential too. Nashville is one of the fastest growing residential areas in the country, with Clarksville, Spring Hill and Smyrna rapidly ballooning urbans. Barnhart, for their part, boasts about work in the residential construction business, too.
Indeed, such work is linked to rapidly growing
sectors, such as healthcare, drawing people in. Tennessee, for one, cannot be accused of standing still, and crane and hoist firms are getting in on the action in an indispensable supporting role.
OCCS Corp was recently sold to new owners, Terrence and Carol Moore. 28 Summer 2025 |
ochmagazine.com
Overhead optimism Indeed, OCCS’ Moore says “there’s a sense of optimism” in the Tennessee crane and hoist industry, not least because of the variety. “We’re really busy,” he adds. “We see really good things in the industry.” As a family-operated firm, Moore is also getting involved in some of the projects that make headlines outside the state – football stadium construction or otherwise. But there’s a wide market for crane and hoist specialists. At the bigger end, HSC Tennessee, part of the broader HSC business, largely supplies and services cranes involved in heavy manufacturing across the southern states as well as internationally. The firm has worked on projects including Boeing assembly lines for commercial aircraft to supplying Toyota, SpaceX and even projects in Canada and the UK. Elsewhere, Barnhart, known
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