| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | Huntington, WV, U.S. |
Area served | Eastern US |
Key people | Patrick J. Farrell (Owner & President) |
| Website | www |
Service Pump & Supply is a privately held regional American industrial distributor, enabling customers to transport and efficiently move water. The company provides products and services for the mining, manufacturing, and oil & gas industries, municipal & wastewater authorities, and electrical power generation plants.
Service Pump & Supply (SPS) was established January 31, 1980, by Danny and Barbara Vance. [1] In a rented 2500 square ft. building in Barboursville, WV and with a ½ ton pick-up for sales calls and deliveries, the company's objective was to sell Stanco MSHA pumps and service other brands to the coal mines of southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.
In 1986, the company switched from carrying the Stanco brand to carrying Flygt pumps and eventually would grow to be Flygt's largest dewatering distributor worldwide. [2]
In 2008, the company began manufacturing rockdusters that reduce the risk of fire in underground coal mines. [3]
In 2012, amid the economic downturn in the coal market, the company considered moving out of West Virginia. However, the local county development authority, along with then-Governor and current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, convinced Vance to stay in the Huntington area. Vance, at the time said, "I'd almost made the decision and (the Wayne County Economic Development Authority) made me an offer I couldn't refuse". [4]
Upon his retirement in 2014, Vance sold the business to West Virginia native and United States Air Force veteran Patrick Farrell of Huntington, WV. [5] Farrell is the owner of Savage Grant, a social impact investing firm. [5]
SPS currently has branch locations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, with its headquarters in Huntington, WV are located in one of the city's three Opportunity Zones. [6] The company's headquarters are in the former American Container Corp building. Built during WW2, the building housed manufacturing operations producing rubber containers used to hold batteries for vehicles, trains, aircraft and submarines, among other things. [7] The company's footprint covers the Appalachian Basin, Illinois Basin and Ohio River Basin. [8]
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Cabell County, the city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers. Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia, with a population of 46,842 as of the 2020 census. Its metro area, the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, is the largest in West Virginia, spanning seven counties across three states and having a population of 376,155 at the 2020 census.
Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. The population of the city was 16,039 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-largest city in West Virginia. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg micropolitan area, which had a population of 90,434 in 2020. Clarksburg was named National Small City of the Year in 2011 by the National League of Cities.
The Herald-Dispatch is a non-daily newspaper that serves Huntington, West Virginia, and neighboring communities in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. It is currently owned by HD Media Co. LLC. It currently publishes Tuesdays-Saturdays, with the Saturday edition dated "Weekend", with updates on its website on Sundays and Mondays.
The economy of West Virginia nominally would be the 62nd largest economy globally behind Iraq and ahead of Croatia according to 2009 World Bank projections, and the 64th largest behind Iraq and ahead of Libya according to 2009 International Monetary Fund projections. The state has a projected nominal GDP of $63.34 billion in 2009 according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis report of November 2010, and a real GDP of $55.04 billion. The real GDP growth of the state in 2009 of .7% was the 7th best in the country. West Virginia's economy accelerated in 2014 with a growth rate of 5.1%, ranking third among the fastest growing states in the United States alongside Wyoming and just behind North Dakota and Texas. In 2021, the state GDP was $72.48 billion, an increase over $69.71 billion in 2021.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Evan Hollin Jenkins is an American politician and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, joining the Court in 2018 and serving as chief justice in 2021. He resigned from the court on February 4, 2022. He served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 2015 to 2018. He is a Republican, having switched his party affiliation from Democratic in 2013.
The Friends of Coal Bowl is the name given to the Marshall–West Virginia football rivalry. It is an American college football rivalry game played by the Marshall Thundering Herd football team of Marshall University and the West Virginia Mountaineers football team of the West Virginia University. The game was sponsored by the Friends of Coal, a coal industry trade group. Planned to be a seven-year series, the Friends of Coal Bowl was organized by the West Virginia Coal Association at the urging of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin.
The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners.
Huntington is home to eleven parks located in the neighborhoods of Huntington. An amusement park is also adjacent to the city.
Dr. Charles Gene Bailey has been the Faculty Manager of WMUL, Marshall University's student operated radio station, since 1985. He is also a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, specializing in Radio and Television Production and Management. Dr. Bailey was raised in Proctor Bottom, Logan County, West Virginia, where, as a child, he listened to Cleveland Browns games on the radio and dreamed of becoming a broadcaster. He graduated from Man High School in 1970, and seldom missed Man Hillbilly football games for the next thirty years.
Don Chafin was the sheriff of Logan County, West Virginia, and a commander in the Battle of Blair Mountain. As sheriff of Logan County, Chafin was a fierce opponent of unionization and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from coal mine operators in bribes for his violent suppression of the United Mine Workers union.
Prichard is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 461. It is located along the Big Sandy River and U.S. Route 52. It is part of the Huntington–Ashland, WV–KY–OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 287,702 according to the US Census (2010). The community was named after James Pritchard.
Ethel is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. Ethel is located on West Virginia Route 17, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east-northeast of Logan. Ethel has a post office with ZIP code 25076.
Xylem Inc. is a large American water technology provider, in public utility, residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial settings. The company does business in more than 150 countries. Launched in 2011 as the spinoff of the water-related businesses of ITT Corporation, Xylem is headquartered in Washington, DC, with 2018 revenues of $5.2 billion and 17,000 employees worldwide.
Eden Park is a former coal town situated along the Guyandotte River between Atenville and Harts in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States. It appears in state business directories as early as 1908.
Douglas Vernon Reynolds is an American politician, businessman, and a former Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 17 from January 12, 2013, to January 2017. Reynolds served consecutively from January 2007 until January 2013 in the District 16 seat. In 2016 Reynolds decided against running for his seat again, instead opting to run for the Attorney General of West Virginia position. Reynolds is also an attorney, the president of Energy Services of America, a pipeline construction company, and HD Media the publisher of the Herald-Dispatch and five other newspapers throughout West Virginia.
Paul Thomas Farrell Jr. is an American attorney from Huntington, West Virginia who ran for President of the United States in the 2016 West Virginia Democratic primary.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia were held on November 6, 2018, to elect the three U.S. representatives from the West Virginia, one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The filing deadline was January 27, 2018. The primary elections were held on May 8, 2018. The elections coincided with the other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
HD Media Co., LLC is a Huntington, West Virginia, based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers and magazines. It was established by Doug Reynolds in 2013 to purchase the Herald-Dispatch from Champion Industries.
