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A daring combination of employee ownership and relentless innovation is redefining industry standards as StoneAge Holdings. StoneAge Holdings empowers its workforce through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), creating a culture where each practitioner not only takes ownership over their work and growth of the company but also helps drive our industry change. This forward thinking model increases creativity, collaboration and a shared belief to push the envelope in the industrial sector.
These flagship brands—StoneAge Tools and Warthog Nozzles—are at the heart of this transformation. Nevertheless, these are companies that are globally known leaders in their chosen discipline and have been able to provide innovative solutions to even the most complicated industrial cleaning applications. StoneAge is constantly evolving the product design from high pressure water jet tools for high safety and efficiency to the latest sewer cleaning nozzles to meet the customer needs.
Innovation Driven Empowered Workforce
The company’s special ESOP structure allows employees to get involved in the price of the company’s success, fuelling motivation, innovation, and commitment. This is a work environment where employees not only participate in, but also actively contribute to the strategic vision of StoneAge Holdings. This is a way to keep StoneAge Agile and Adaptable to the demands of the market and the high standards of excellence keeping.
With the leadership of CEO and Chairman Kerry Siggins the company has built out its global footprint without sacrificing its roots of engineering excellence. Siggins was heavily involved in key strategic initiatives including the ride to employee ownership and the purchase of Breadware, an IoT development company. These moves have put StoneAge Holdings in a unique position to be among the most forward of the curve when it comes to product innovation and technology integration, putting them on the leading edge of being applied to a wealth of connected solutions beyond industrial cleaning.
Modernizing Building Industry Leadership with Purpose Driven Innovation
As a solutions-oriented company, StoneAge Holdings focuses on industrial tools engineering excellence that is intended to improve operational efficiency and safety. Its flag ship brand, StoneAge Tools, is the leading water jet tooling manufacturer for industrial cleaning and offers customized solutions to handle different challenging tasks to quality standards. Warthog Nozzles is also excellent at sewer and drain cleaning with products that are both durable and effective for small and large scale projects. Cautiously, their innovative technology allows contractors to work safely and efficiently, never going over budget while dealing with primary demands in their industries.
Custom Solutions by StoneAge
Not only are the products and services that StoneAge Holdings can provide to its customers innovative, but its range of services and solutions provides an extensive array to meet its customers’ various and demanding needs. StoneAge guarantees that its customers will receive all the engineering custom tools together with the help of expert consulting and support in their most specific challenges.
At StoneAge Holdings, no two projects are the same. The Solutions Team’s dedication to close monitoring with clients, working with them to create custom tools and systems tailored to the most intricate and demanding industrial cleaning needs. StoneAge’s approach is always customer centric—whether a project involves modifications to existing products or a completely new, purpose built system. This specialized team can do much more than sell products; instead, from full service engineering capabilities to turnkey solutions, they make the toughest jobs easy to execute and less expensive to finish.
StoneAge Holdings offers its clientele highly customizable water blast tools for industrial cleaning, as well as specialty nozzles for sewer and drain systems, all of which have been designed for optimum performance, safety and efficiency. In a nutshell, it means that StoneAge solutions are reliable and innovative, from large scale contractors to municipalities—and every customer in between.
Ongoing Support and Expertise
StoneAge is proud to offer ongoing support long after the purchase through a 24/7 proactive support system that includes troubleshooting and expert advice. It maximizes StoneAge product value, improves operation efficiency and minimizes down time. Furthermore, StoneAge trains contractors in compliance plans, provides job planning assistance, and personalized advising to help contractors’ complete projects in a timely manner and in a safe manner. With this customer first approach covering the short term needs and long term value, StoneAge is the company that is at forefront of improving the industrial productivity.
Purpose and Innovation Leading
The acquisition of Breadware and Terydon positions StoneAge Holdings to evolve into future industry leadership, leveraging key platform infrastructure and its ability to innovate. StoneAge’s leadership position as a pioneer in addressing market needs is also strengthened by Breadware’s IoT development expertise and Terydon’s advanced technology. The company’s vision is to provide top of the class products which can enhance the safety and efficiency for industrial workers as well as offer an inclusive and a conducive working environment for employees. By innovating, collaborating and taking purposeful leadership, StoneAge intends to have a long lasting impact on future generations.
About the Leader
Kerry Siggins, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of StoneAge Holdings, Under her leadership, StoneAge Tools has changed its product development strategy, go-to-market business model, and European operations expansion. Additionally, Kerry helped to lead the transition into becoming an employee-owned, ESOP company in 2015, and most recently the acquisition of Breadware, an IoT engineering services company. She is proud that StoneAge Holdings shares a significant amount of its success with its employees. She continues to lead through transparency, communicating the strategy and goals necessary to continue to be market leaders on a global scale.