![]() ![]() To keep its forward momentum going, Goodway is adding three new products developed, tested, manufactured and sold in Stamford by its employees, with a combined total of six patents pending. People hang on for the ride and appreciate the company and what we’re doing.” We’ve done nothing but grow for 50 years. It’s a relatively family-type environment - we have very liberal benefits policies that include impromptu days off. “It’s very important to have this be a closely knit company,” Kane said, “one that’s vertically integrated, not outsourced. Kane said that about 17 percent of its annual business comes from approximately 125 international markets.Īlso loyal are its employees, many of whom have been with the company for decades. Those customers are not limited to North America Goodway also maintains sales arms in Central and South America, Europe, the Middle and Far East, Africa, and Australia. Building maintenance workers are fiercely loyal to our brand.” Goodway is a brand that is very well-known within the confines of our vertical marketplace. “We develop engineering-based solutions for customers to help them sustain their efforts and reduce their operating costs. We created a category of very specific solutions for commercial use.” “HVAC workers used to use equipment from various suppliers that were not necessarily specifically intended for those uses, using pressure washers to clean coils that were sometimes very fragile. “We’re a category maker,” said Kane, who joined the company 21 years ago to work in its sales department. Since that time, the company’s inventory has steadily grown to encompass the entire HVAC space, including chillers, heat exchangers, cooling towers and cleaning and maintenance products. Incorporated in 1966, Goodway was founded by Norwegian immigrant Per Reichborn in the basement of his Stamford home as a firm focused entirely on selling a unique boiler-cleaning system. The company employs 93 people and is about halfway toward its goal of hiring 20 new employees by year’s end, Kane said. ![]() Goodway invested $1.7 million of its own to renovate its 2-acre facility at 420 West Ave., razing a main warehouse and replacing it with a much larger, modernized space of 15,000 square feet that will accommodate its shipping department expansion and production and assembly operations. ![]()
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