Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 6

54 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 6 Vermeer Heartland is your one-stop shop for your industrial equipment needs. We’re celebrating our 40th year in business, and with decades of experience in sales, parts and service, our team offers a wealth of knowledge. Our St. Albans, WV location is now serving the forage market as well as industrial. Visit vermeerhl.com to learn more. ST. ALBANS, WV 304.768.5965 ELIZABETHTOWN, KY 270.737.1721 KNOXVILLE, TN 865.524.9174 LA VERGNE, TN 615.535.0222 WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OH 740.335.8571 Vermeer and the Vermeer logo are trademarks of Vermeer Manufacturing Company in the U.S. and/or other countries. © 2021 Vermeer Heartland, Inc.All Rights Reserved. deserves a mention. “Columbus is a unique place to live and is really on the cutting edge of a lot of technological developments,” Rogers explains. “A few years ago, the city was awarded a $40 million federal grant as the winner of the Smart City Challenge. At Gudenkauf, we’ve been involved in many of the projects that have been developed as a result of the city’s win.” The diversity of services offered by Gudenkauf is clearly one of the company’s main strengths – and its employees have never been afraid of meeting new technological challenges head-on. “Our main service is still off-site construction but we’re unique in the way we work for such a wide variety of different customers,” Rogers comments. “We offer splicing, fiber, and copper networking solutions. We burn about 20,000 splices on a monthly basis on the fiber side of our systems division and we install and maintain all these systems ourselves. I know a lot of other contractors are afraid of new technologies but