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Gun Melting Event

SpringCity — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:32:00 -0500

Spring City recently teamed with the local Police Department and the local city to melt down guns to be remanufactured into lampposts. Thirty years of guns collected as evidence by Spring City PD were melted down on July 13^th.

Handguns, rifles and shotguns totally approximately forty were stripped down by the police department and transferred to Spring City to be melted.

Once the guns were melted that were poured into lamppost which will be installed along the Main Street of Spring City, PA.

The Mayor of Spring City Mayor Michael A. Weiss, and the Chief of Police, Chief Dee Sherman along with the members of the Spring City Electrical staff were on hand for the late-night ceremony. Chief Sherman and Mayor Weiss began by placing the guns into a large charge bucket to be melted down.

“The guns have been stripped and mechanically disassembled,” Alan Brink said. “The guns were dropped into a charge bucket, which was placed over a furnace of 2,500 degree metal.”

“The guns went in and in a short matter of time; they became part of the charge bucket. It is just like putting an ice cube into a pot of boiling water. They will be poured into molds to become lampposts.”

An unveiling ceremony for the new lampposts will be scheduled in approximately three weeks, Brink said.

“That ceremony will include a plaque donation to the borough from Spring City Electrical Manufacturing,” he said. “It will state that the posts were made from disposed firearms.”

Exton LED Luminaire

SpringCity — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:35:03 -0500

Spring City Electrical has added another decorative high wattage LED luminaire. The Exton LED luminaire offers a decorative alternative to traditional decorative cobra-head lighting luminaire as well as an energy saving alternative!

The Exton LED luminaire is offered with a maximum wattage of 154. Our patent pending CROSSFIRE^TMOptical System and CoolCast^TM heat dissipation technology allows for a warm blanket of light without compromising the junction temperature.

In addition to the Exton, Spring City Electrical offers several other luminaires, consisting of; post top acorn style, The Washington, Pendant style, The Columbia and Exton, cast frame luminaires, Center City District, Franklin Square and Borough luminaires as well as Octagonal style, The William and Mary and Edgewater.

Significant and unique advancement

SpringCity — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:58:17 -0500

Spring City's LED Luminaire Line has been recognized by the annual LD+A's progress report as a significant and unique advancement to the art and science of lighting! Spring City's LED Luminaire Line has been recognized by the annual LD+A's progress report as a significant and unique advancement to the art and science of lighting! Spring City's LED Luminaire Line has been recognized by the annual LD+A's progress report as a significant and unique advancement to the art and science of lighting!

Spring City's LED Luminaire Line has been recognized by the annual LD+A's progress report as a significant and unique advancement to the art and science of lighting!

Ambler, PA highlighted in LD+A'S December 2010 Issue

SpringCity — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:11:26 -0600

http://www.springcity.com/files/Press releases//LD+A_Spring_City_Article.pdf

Happy Holidays

SpringCity — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:56:10 -0600

City of Topkea, KS LED Press Event

SpringCity — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:57:14 -0600

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:

Tracie Wolf

Spring City Electrical

310-7782

twolf@springcity.com

City of Topeka, Kansas to Hold Press Conference on Their Switch to LED Street-Lighting

Topeka Upgrade Streets with LED Fixtures from

Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company

Spring City, P.A., February 16, 2011 — The City of Topeka, Kansas will be hosting a press conference to announce their conversion of their decorative post top luminaires to energy-efficient LED lighting at 10 o’clock central time on February 16^th at City Hall. The city upgraded their decorative pedestrian lighting by using a custom LED conversion kit made by Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company, featuring Cree’s XLamp^® MC-E and XP-E LEDs. The electronic circuit board engineering and fabrication was done by a division of Heatron of Leavenworth, KS.

Topeka was able to recycle components of their traditional streetlight when switching their lighting system to LED technology. Spring City provided the city with a new LED system which consists of a new COOLCAST^TM heat dissipating thermal management roof equipped with Spring City’s Crossfire^TM LEDs LM-79 Caliper rated optical systems and a new globe and driver. The city was able to keep the bottom of the fixture to save on price as well as re-use the existing fitters.

Spring City supplied Topeka with four hundred and nine conversion LED kits. The city chose three variations of wattages of 100, 80 and 60 Watt systems and delivers light comparable to a 175-watt metal halide lamp . Spring City projects an energy savings of up to 50 percent and to be maintenance free for seven years or longer.

“By utilizing a custom LED conversion kit, Topeka was able to maintain the same appearance of their traditional light fixture and save money on energy and maintenance expenses,” said Alan Brink, President of Spring City Electrical.

For more information from the City of Topeka, KS, please contact- Carlos Salazar 785-368-3913 or csalazar@Topeka.org.

About Spring City Electrical

Spring City’s core business consists of cast ornamental lighting standards. Our huge design library and advanced data processing bring you full submittal drawings and specifications in minimum time. With Spring City, you can choose from the country's widest range of traditional styles - or create your own custom designs. And since we don't send our work out to another foundry we can maintain tight project timing and stringent quality control over every single step of your job, from initial preparation all the way to final finishing. For more information, please visit www.springcity.com

For more information about our LED Luminaires, contact Tracie Wolf at 610-948-4000 or via email twolf@springcity.com. Attached you will find installation images from the City of Topeka.

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City of Topeka, KS Press Conference

SpringCity — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:41:16 -0600

City of Topeka, Kansas is Happy with Their Switch to LED Street-Lighting

Spring City, P.A., February 17, 2011 — The City of Topeka, Kansas announced their successful transition to the energy efficient LED streetlights manufactured domestically by Spring City Electrical. The City reported an energy savings of 40% and an estimate of maintenance savings of $4,000/month. Topeka was also happy to announce a reduction of 63 tons CO₂carbon emissionsby this transition.

Carlos Salazar, Evaluation and Planning Manager of The City of Topeka’s Street Maintenance Section, and his team made great efforts to quantify the results of their new street lights. By running a separate meter for the new lights and comparing their energy meter ratings to the previous two years, Topeka reported an energy savings of 40%. Not only did this reduce their energy consumption, the city was able to reduce their CO₂carbon emissions by 63 tons. In addition, the city is estimating a savings of $4,000 over a four to six month time on maintenance savings and will continue to monitor the savings as time elapses. Spring City’s LED streetlights are warranted to last 7 years without maintenance.

Residents of Topeka have responded warmly to the transition to LED. The residents reported to the City that the new lights are visually pleasing at night in comparison to the 175 Watt Metal Halide which was the previous lamping of their streetlights. They city has notice a significant increase of foot traffic along the corridors lined with the new LED street lights.

Spring City supplied Topeka with 409 custom conversion LED kits. The city chose three variations of wattages of 100, 80 and 60 Watt systems and delivers light comparable to a 175-watt metal halide lamp .

For more information from the City of Topeka, KS, please contact- Carlos Salazar 785-368-3913 or csalazar@Topeka.org.

About Spring City Electrical

For more information about our LED Luminaires, contact Tracie Wolf at 610-948-4000 or via email twolf@springcity.com. Attached you will find installation images from the City of Topeka and a video of the press conference.

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Borough of Lansdale, PA

SpringCity — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:01:45 -0600

Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania is Paving the Way Upgrading to LED Street Lighting

Spring City, P.A., March 4, 2011 — The Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania announced their transition to energy efficient LED streetlights and LED illuminated bollards manufactured domestically by Spring City Electrical.

Lansdale began their construction of their streetscape on February 14^th, 2011. This project includes the energy efficient LED streetlights as well as LED bollards. Lansdale previously illuminated their streets with a twin set-up illuminated by 100 Watt Metal Halide and are switching to a single set-up. By switching to LED light fixtures, the borough is estimated to save 71% on energy costs as well as a savings 70% on maintenance savings on their new single set up. This project is funded by federal Transportation Equity Act bill and Main Street Funds as well as state grants.

“All the existing lights will be refurbished with the LED light up top with one single light instead of the dual lights that shines down that actually has a much more attractive light to it,” said Mike Riccio, Lansdale Councilman, Chair Public Works Comm. at the ground breaking ceremony on January 24^th, 2011. Spring City provided the borough with 107 Center City District LED Luminaires and 16 Washington LED bollards that consist of a COOLCAST^TM heat dissipating thermal management streetlights. These lights are also equipped with Spring City’s Crossfire^TM LED optical systems which carry a 7-year warranty. The Center City District LED Fixture those chose is a 74 Watt system with a color temperature of 3000k. Lansdale also selected the Washington LED Bollard that is a 21 Watt system that is also 3000K.

For more information from the Borough of Lansdale, PA, please visit- http://www.lansdale.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={B45A73CA-4CD7-492D-B733-6A0A486691DE}. If you’d like to tweet about this project, use #lansstreetscape. To watch highlights from the ground breaking ceremony please refer to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHMXywMOPg&feature=player_embedded#at=124.

About Spring City Electrical

For more information about our LED Luminaires, contact Tracie Wolf at 610-948-4000 or via email- twolf@springcity.com. Attached you will find a video of the press conference held in Borough of Lansdale during the ground breaking ceremony.

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Spring City PCN Tour to air April 3rd at 8 pm

SpringCity — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:16:02 -0500

PCN TOURS SPRING CITY ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY

The Pennsylvania Cable Network will give viewers around the state a “behind-the-scenes” look into Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company. The Chester County-based business will be featured on an upcoming episode of “PCN Tours” which is slated to air Sunday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m.

For over 168 years, the Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company has been designing, crafting and making cast iron and cast aluminum lampposts and fixtures for outdoor use. Outdoor decorative street lighting, historical reproductions as well as custom pieces for clocks, street signs and traffic lights are created at this facility.

To meet the need for more energy-efficient lighting options, Spring City also manufactures LED lighting systems and a custom LED conversion kit for existing outdoor lighting pieces.

“PCN Tours” air Sundays at 8:00 p.m. with encores scheduled on Mondays at 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. For details on upcoming PCN Tours programs, visit www.pcntv.com.

PCN is a nonprofit, noncommercial news organization created and supported by cable television companies. PCN receives no state or federal funding. Network programming is distributed on more than 150 cable systems in Pennsylvania serving more than 10 million Pennsylvanians in 3.3 million homes. A complete listing of PCN affiliates and network channel designations is available by visiting PCN's website at www.pcntv.com

For more information about PCN and the PCN Tours program, please contact Michelle Harter, Director of Corporate Communications at 717-730-6000 x 227 or michelleharter@pcntv.com.

For more information about Spring City Electrical which is located at 1 South Main Street in Spring City, please contact Tracie Wolf at 610-948-4000 or twolf@springcity.com.

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Seeking an Inside Sales Representative

SpringCity — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:36:07 -0500

Duties

Prepare quotations for manufacturers’ representatives for presentation to customers
Write up orders which includes coordinating with the end-customer to ensure the correct product detail information is obtained and ordered
Provide follow-up customer service and coordinate with related plant departments to ensure the delivery commitment to customers are met.
Assist the Vice President-Sales and Marketing on special projects
Cooperating with Account manager and Sales Supervisor to determine essential strategic approaches for sales
Maintaining and expanding the database of prospects of the organization
Outbound and inbound project management
Capturing of accurate and complete information in Customer Relationship Management system .
Attending industry conferences to develop industry expertise and to build network.
Participate in sales/field calls as needed

Skills and Specifications

Able to work in fast-paced, self-directed entrepreneurial environment
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Highly proficient level computer skills including Ms Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Outlook
Excellent telephone sales personality skills
Should be expert in CRM software solutions
Prominent organization and presentation skills
Excellent time management skills
Highly energetic and self-starter
Decision-making, problem resolution and creative thinking skills
Able to multi-task the activities with shifting priorities
Should be honest, assertive and systematic

Position Requirements

Bachelor degree

Compensation

Salary is commensurate with background, experience and education
Customized incentive compensation plan
Excellent benefit package
1. Heath Insurance
2. Tuition Reimbursement
3. 401K and defined benefit pension plans
Position is located in Spring City, PA

Send resumes to crosfelder@springcity.com.

Spring City History Article

SpringCity — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:21:11 -0500

Shining Light on our Two Towns

Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:20pm By William C. Brunner

In recent years, the towns of Spring City and Royersford have both been involved with revitalization programs which included the addition of street lamps. These lights were manufactured by the Spring City Electrical Manufacturing Company right on Main Street in Spring City. This company makes street lights that are shipped throughtout the country and the world. They have a very informative website for those who would like more information. They can be located at - http://www.springcity.com/

I first came to Spring City in 1958 and I can tell you that in the past 50 years these two towns that I call home have never looked better than they look today.

In the early 1800s this area was mostly farm lands. There were the Royer brothers in Spring City and the Custer, Latshaw and Bergstresser farms just to name a few on the Montgomery County side.

In 1824 the Schuylkill Navagation Co., often referred to as the Schuylkill Canal, opened and within 10 years Springville was developing. The first store on the canal was built in 1835 by James Rogers.Three houses were built down on Main Street in 1838. Rogers built the Lyceum that same year. It was the first town meeting hall in Spring City and was used for schooling, church and fraternal functions and just about any gathering of people that one could imagine, including the traveling medicine man.

Rogers built the first stove foundry along the canal around 1843. The paper mill, another canal industry, opened in 1847. James Rogers, one of two prominent men, was responsible for the early development of Springville. The other was Frederick Yost who operated a grist mill near the entrance to the river bridge on the Spring City side.

The foundry was small and manufactured iron stoves and hollow ware. Hollow ware is a collective term used to describe pots & pans, skillets, tea kettles and various cast iron utensils. It is interesting to point out that the manufacturing process of pouring molten iron into sand molds is quite similar to the process employed today in the modern manufacturing of lamp posts. There has been many ownership configurations at the Spring City Foundry during the past 168 years. The fact that an operating foundry business still flourishes on the same corner of Hall and Main Streets in Spring City is quite noteworthy.

The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad came through Royersford in 1839 and soon this town would be equal in industrial development to its neighbor on the other side of the river. If one looks at the 1893 overview maps on display in the local museum, it is easy to see the tremendous growth in both towns during the period from 1840 to 1890.

It was always a dream of mine to be able to go back in time to the early 1900s and take my camera along. I can only imagine what fun I would have taking pictures of everything I saw. Collecting old photos and postcards is about the only way I can realize part of that fantasy. I know that the old twin boroughs were a happening place in this era and there were several bands. two silent movie theaters in Spring City and the Opera house in Royersford which in later years became the Penn Theater. Fraternal groups and a myriad of social clubs were plentiful.

Spring City had an amusement park, Bonnie Brae, and Royersford had Lakeview Park. I don't know for sure when the glory days of the twin boroughs reached a peak but I am pretty sure I missed them. By the time I arrived in Spring City in 1958 things were closing and many of the big industries were gone. The remains of the racetrack were sold to the school that year and the new Spring City Elementary opened in 1960.

When we moved to Spring City we lived in a small half-double on Hall street. This was before the new borough hall and the new fire house were built. I teased my parents about our living facilities and often told people I lived on Baltic Avenue. I have been in town now for over 50 years and traveling now along Main Street with the new street lights shining. "Shining light on our two towns" certainly shows me we are headed back in the right direction. I get a good feeling driving through our towns.

http://limerick.patch.com/blog_posts/shining-light-on-our-two-towns

Keystone Markers

SpringCity — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:44:38 -0500

Hall and Main Street

Spring City, PA 19468 

Contact: Tracie Wolf

Spring City Electrical Manufacturing

-948-4000 x 131

twolf@springcity.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Keystone Markers Now Offered by Keystone Marker Trust and Spring City Electric

Spring City, PA – August 30, 2011 – Spring City Electrical is proud to announce our partnership with the Keystone Marker Trust to manufacture historically-accurate reproductions of Pennsylvania’s iconic, century-old Keystone Markers. Until now, no other foundry could offer accurate reproductions of these once-proud monuments to a time when Pennsylvania led the nation in industrial and technological progress. Originally installed by PennDOT’s predecessor, the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, Spring City’s markers will be the first new Keystone Markers in seventy years.

“The Keystone Markers celebrate Pennsylvania and all that make it unique,” said Nathaniel Guest, KMT president. “It was through the Keystone Marker that the keystone shape became so strongly associated with our state during a time when Pennsylvania was forging its own identity as the keystone in the arch of American progress,” he said.

While there were once tens of thousands of these markers denoting the entrances to all Pennsylvania towns and cities, trails, creeks, rivers, and other points of interest, today there are only about 600—with many of these in need of repair. Most towns had four markers. Spring City, PA, home to Spring City Electrical Manufacturing, is fortunate to have one of its original four markers remaining. Spring City Electrical Manufacturing will be restoring this marker as part of the kick-off to its Keystone Marker offerings. “The Trust has restored about 60 markers so far; with the help of Spring City, we’ll be able to do more advanced work re-installing long-gone markers,” said Guest.

“By enabling towns and civic groups to restore and re-introduce these proud symbols unique to our state, we create a network of Pennsylvania communities and organizations dedicated to positive development and re-investment,” said Alan Brink, president of Spring City Electrical. “The markers create a sense of place that sets Pennsylvania apart from everywhere else—a distinction that will make people want to visit, live, and work here,” he said.

New markers, including the historic front-mount sign and post, go into production this fall, with dramatic price discounts for multiple-marker orders. “The Keystone Marker Trust is so proud the markers will be made in Pennsylvania and especially proud that it’s by a shop that epitomizes the ingenuity and craftsmanship that characterized the marker program in its heyday,” said Guest. “It truly is a good sign for our state,” he said.

To order your customized Keystone Marker, please contact 610—948-4000 or twolf@springcity.com. Order online and learn more about the Keystone Markers at www.keystonemarkertrust.org.

About Spring City:

Spring City’s core business consists of cast ornamental lighting systems. Our huge design library and advanced data processing bring you full submittal drawings and specifications in minimum time. With Spring City, you can choose from the country's widest range of traditional styles - or create your own custom designs. And since we don't send our work out to another foundry we can maintain tight project timing and stringent quality control over every single step of your job, from initial preparation all the way to final finishing. For more information, please visit www.springcity.com

About Keystone Marker Trust:

The KMT is a 5013 non-profit, tax-exempt organization with a mission to establish a program around Pennsylvania’s iconic, century-old Keystone Markers that celebrates Pennsylvania's people and places, its heritage and its future, by restoring and re-introducing these proud symbols unique to our state; and creates a network of Pennsylvania communities and organizations dedicated to positive development that is economically sound, environmentally responsible, and socially equitable. Entities dedicating themselves to the Keystone Marker Trust Principles will be able to apply for grant funding to replace and restore their Keystone Markers. For more information, please visit www.keystonemarkertrust.org.

For more information, contact Tracie Wolf at 610-948-4000 or via email twolf@springcity.com.

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