WAKE FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA / ACCESSWIRE / January 13, 2025 / ECI Environmental Consultants, Inc. (ECI) and ArborMetrics announced today that they had joined forces to form a new company that combines the strength, independence, and capabilities of the two iconic organizations in the vegetation management industry.
The new company, which will operate as ArborMetrics under a refreshed brand, represents an enhanced value proposition for customers, greater career growth opportunities for employees, and a strengthened leadership position in a competitive marketplace. Forging key roles in the ArborMetrics leadership team are President Chuck Anderson, Senior Vice President of Growth Atley Deer, and Senior Vice President of Operations Bob Richens.
"This alignment was formed as a strategic solution to support customer challenges in an industry facing increasing budget pressures, environmental demands, regulatory constraints and technology challenges," said Anderson. "By leveraging ArborMetrics' data and technology innovations, we'll provide more cost-effective, extensive services not offered before and broaden our reach into new markets."
Deer added that the new ArborMetrics will continue to operate with independence and vendor neutrality to deliver consultative, research-based technology solutions for environmental oversight and management, project management, consulting, field services, construction design and support, asset and vegetation management, civil construction, and solar farm and data center environmental services. "We are well-positioned to be our customers' first-call and long-term vegetation and asset management solution partner," he said. "Our role as leaders is to look to the future and evolve with our customers. As ArborMetrics, we can meet them where they are today and lead them to tomorrow. This concept is the sentiment behind our new tagline, 'Leading the Future of Outside.'"
Richens said ArborMetrics' people remain its core strength. "Our people have always been and will continue to be our greatest asset," he said. "We have the full complement of expertise, technology and scale to be the best-in-class company in the industry." He said that level of skill and the new company's enhanced capabilities in environmental services give ArborMetrics a clear competitive edge in broadening its reach into the new markets.
Watch for more in the coming months as ArborMetrics unveils its new brand, operational framework and talent strategies.
COMPANY BACKGROUND
ECI, founded in 1972, is a leading national provider of vegetation and asset management consulting and field services to the electric and gas utility industry, including programmatic vegetation management, mobile vegetation work management systems, wildfire threat mitigation, and linear optimization. ECI is an industry leader in assembling programmatic remote sensing, including mobile and aerial mapping and virtual inspections.
ArborMetrics, established in 2006, provides workforce solutions to streamline the efficiencies and effectiveness of vegetation management programs for utilities, municipalities, and other agencies throughout North America and Canada. The company's proprietary software, ARBORLINE, is a utility application designed by arborists for arborists to support their customers' electronic work planning, pest management plans, GIS data collection and tree inventories, professional landowner notifications, and quality assurance audits.
For more information about ArborMetrics contact:
ARBORMETRICS - UNITED STATES
info@arbormetrics.com
Atley Deer
765.721.1071
866.685.1880
12324 Hampton Way Drive Suite 101
Wake Forest, NC 27587
SOURCE: ArborMetrics
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