Mike Keene

Tri-Lift Inc added space in relocating its Farmingdale operation two blocks in early January.

This leased location occupies 12,000 sqft. (1,115 sqm) and services Long Island and the New York boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island, with a market presence of about 3,500 units of materials handling equipment. Tri-Lift opened a Farmingdale operation in 2009 and enlarged it in 2011 to 7,800 sqft. (702 sqm), now vacated.

Mike Keefe heads the Farmingdale operations as general manager. The location has five service bays, employs 25 staff, including two shop technicians and five field technicians, and is seeking additional staff.

Paul Murgo is president of Tri-Lift and owner since 2008 of the New Haven, Connecticut-based business. His father and uncle founded Tri-Lift in 1968 as an independent materials handling equipment service company.

In addition to Farmingdale and New Haven, the dealership has facilities in Albany, New York and Enfield, Connecticut. For all four sites, Tri-Lift has more than 100 employees, a rental fleet size in excess of 800 units and parts-on-hand inventory with a value of more than USD1.4 million.

Tri-Lift had 2013 equipment, attachment, warehouse product and rental sales revenue of about USD24 million and projects current-year volume may reach USD30 million. Tri-Lift represents the lines of Caterpillar, Mitsubishi and Jungheinrich forklifts along with Genie and JLG aerial lifts and work platforms.