Trico Lift donated use of equipment for a sunfish art installation under a highway overpass in San Antonio, Texas.

Full-service aerial work platform dealer Trico Lift of Millville has opened a second facility in the Texas market.

The new location in San Antonio, under service manager Danny Lewis, follows Trico Lift's establishment last year of a site in Tomball, a city that is accessible to the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area. Billy Abshire is general manager for Trico Lift's Texas operations.

Trico Lift, which represents the Genie, JLG and MEC brands of aerial work platforms, has five other branches in Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Recently, the San Antonio store donated the use of lift equipment for installation of sunfish art at an Interstate Highway 35 underpass as part of the San Antonio River Improvement Project.

Joseph Pustizzi Sr started the business in a two-bay garage in 1952 as a farm tractor distributor. Now, Ken Pustizzi heads Trico Lift as president, and Joseph Pustizzi Jr guides Trico Equipment Services LLC of Vineland, New Jersey, which focuses on the earthmoving market and represents Case construction equipment. The Trico operations reorganised into two separate companies in 2007.

"San Antonio is a great city, and we're happy to be here to support local business and industry as well as the development and activities happening throughout the area," says Ken Pustizzi.

In May, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association of Washington, DC presented a contractor merit award to Trico Lift for its safety program.