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Company info Ace Industries was founded by Harold Arwood in 1932 as an electrical motor shop in Atlanta, Georgia. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ace became a Master Dealer for Columbus McKinnon Corp., and started stocking products manufactured by CM, Coffing, Lift-Tech and Yale. At this time, the company began focusing on distributing material handling products and today it is one of the largest independent overhead crane and hoist distribution, manufacturing and service companies in the United States. Ace opened its first service manufacturing facility in 1983 and first service branch in 1996 and now supports over 100 hoist and crane brands and has 300 service sales, and operations associates. Through three generations of Arwood family ownership, the current CEO is Josh Arwood, who also served as President of the CMAA from 2019–2020, Cheryl Rossborough, CFO and Daniel Arwood COO. Its mission is to ‘Build Great Lifting Equipment, Foster Innovation that Improves our Industry and Provide a Place Where People are Valued and Can Grow’.


42 | Winter 2023 | www.ochmagazine.com


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