IHC Services Inc. has been an international supplier of branded products and services since World War II, providing a diverse range of high-quality capital equipment and turnkey solutions in more than 70 countries.
Corporate history
On December 29, 1944, two partners founded International Manufacturing and Equipment Company, known as IMECO, with an office in Manhattan Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island,. Its mission included providing heavy machinery and spare parts.[1]
In December 1988, IMECO purchased Hofortech Corporation, a Long Island-based company specializing in supplying and maintaining electrical engines for mining, and changed its name to International Hofortech Corporation.
In July 1989, Torno America Inc., a subsidiary of Torno Spa, a large European construction company, bought International Hofortech Corporation and in April 1990 shortened the name to IHC Services. From 1992-97, subsidiaries of Torno Spa purchased shares in IHC Services, and by 1997 Torno SA Holdings, a subsidiary of Torno Spa, owned all stock in the company. In 2005, Alliance Investment Ltd. bought IHC Services, and owns the company today.
Business operations
One of the founders headed the company until 1989; in 1997, Ezio Testa Ezio Testa is an international business leader who specializes in providing logistics and supplies to large organizations. Fluent in several languages, Testa is currently CEO of Global Logistic Solutions, which provides goods and services to the U.S. government and the private sector was appointed CEO A chief executive officer or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual appointed as CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency reports to the board of directors; he resigned in October 2006, and no replacement has been named.[2] Over the years, IHC has had offices in Manhattan Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island,, Long Island Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City, and two of which (Nassau and Suffolk) are mainly suburban or rural. In popular usage, the term "Long Island", Milan Milan (Italian: Milano, listen Italian pronunciation: [miˈla(ː)no]; Western Lombard: Milan, listen (help·info)) is a city in Italy and the capital of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1,310,000, while the urban area is the first in Italy and the fifth largest in the European Union, Houston Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2009 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.3 million within an area of 579 square miles (1,500 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan, Northern California The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento , and the redwood forests, the northern California coast, the Big Sur coastline area, the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta (the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range), and the Central Valley, one of the, Miami The City of Miami is a major city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida, United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. It is the principal city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, which had a 2008 population of 5,414,712; ranking 7th largest in the U.S.. The and Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. Charlotte's population was estimated to be 687,456 in 2008, making it the 18th largest city in the United States. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a population in 2009 of 1,745,524. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a wider thirteen-county.
IHC Services has had many customers, including military and relief organizations, non-governmental organizations and other large entities; for example, the United Nations The United Nations Organization or simply United Nations (UN) (Arabic: الأمم المتحدة, French: Organisation des Nations Unies, Chinese: 联合国 / 聯合國, Spanish: Organización de las Naciones Unidas, Russian: Организация Объединённых Наций) Filipino: Organisasyon ng Nagkakaisang mga Bansa is an had been a customer since at least 1989.[3]
References
- ^ Industrial supply website
- ^ EzioTesta.com
- ^ "Annual Report of the Administrator for 1989, Statistical Annex". UNDP. April 30, 1990. http://www.undp.org/execbrd/archives/sessions/gc/37th1990/DP-1990-17-Add6-Part-II.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-06.
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