Osmose Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary

TYRONE, Ga.--(Business Wire)--
In the fall of 1934, several Buffalo businessmen joined forces to create the
Osmose Wood Preserving Company of America, building on a patent for a unique,
non-pressure preservative. During the intervening 75 years, Osmose continued to
advance wood preservation science and grew into the world`s leading producer of
preservative systems. Concurrently, close relationships and evolving customer
needs encouraged Osmose to develop infrastructure inspection, maintenance and
repair solutions for the utility and railroad industries.

Today, Osmose Utilities Services, Inc, one of several Osmose companies, provides
a wide variety of inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation services and
products to electric, telecommunications and gas utilities. The Osmose mission
is to help asset owners extract the optimum safe, economical and useful life
from transmission and distribution infrastructure. Leveraging its position as
America`s leading pole maintenance company, Osmose developed a broad array of
predictive and preventative maintenance offerings that provide solutions across
entire networks… from the substation to the meter.

As digital information replaced hard-copy utility maps and records, customers
began to request comprehensive and accurate information about the poles and
equipment that Osmose crews visit on a routine basis. Osmose incorporated mobile
computing into its field operations in 1986, and developed into the leading
provider of utility data services that support today`s robust operations support
systems such as GIS, outage management and work management.

America`s utilities have learned that Osmose is one source with many solutions.
Whether the need is pole inspectors or crews to identify damage after a natural
disaster, Osmose can help. Osmose is organized to support a variety of projects,
from simple joint use attachment surveys to complex connectivity and network
modeling events. Transmission companies value Osmose expertise in the
maintenance of aging steel towers and poles. Today`s managers appreciate Osmose
for bringing new and environmentally preferable solutions to market, including
MP400-EXT preservative paste and the Osmose Field Liner barrier protection
system for wood poles. Utility engineers call on Osmose to identify pole
overload conditions and to upgrade pole class, with the ET-Truss Pole
Strengthening System. Osmose operations resources and project managers are
located throughout the U.S. and technical support is available from our Georgia
or New York offices.

With 75 years of diverse experience and learning as a foundation, Osmose
continues to strive to serve America`s utilities as they manage aging
infrastructure and design and build tomorrow`s intelligent utility and Smart
Grid networks.

Media:
Osmose Utilities Services, Inc
Bob Butera, 716-319-3269
bbutera@osmose.com

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