GREENEVILLE, TENNESSEE Summers-Taylor is in its fourth generation as a family-led enterprise. Founded in 1932 by Lines R. Taylor, who was joined after World War II by son-in-law Robert W. Summers, the Elizabethton-based company has one of its two offices located at 1190 Lonesome Pine Trail just north of Greeneville. Headed for decades by Chairman and President R.T. “Rab” Summers of Johnson City, the son of the late Robert W. Summers, the family-owned company also includes Rab Summers’ son, Grant, as one of its vice-presidents. The family-oriented influence was reinforced in 1990 when Summers-Taylor, Inc., acquired another widely-known, family-owned business, Greeneville-based Malone Brothers Construction Company, according to Ted Lane Bryant, the Summers-Taylor vice president who heads the Greeneville and Morristown offices. Over the years, Summers-Taylor, Inc., which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2008, has continued to grow, according to Bryant. “We now have up to 350 employees in peak season,” he said. “We also operate about 100 dump trucks plus paving machines and a variety of support equipment.” The company web site notes that Summers-Taylor is the largest heavy and highway construction contractor in Northeast Tennessee, and is licensed in Virginia and North Carolina as well as Tennessee. Bryant noted that in Greene
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County, Summers-Taylor, Inc., operates an asphalt plant off Lonesome Pine Trail and a concrete plant off Snapps Ferry Road. The company also operates asphalt and concrete plants in Morristown, Blountville and Watauga, Bryant noted. Transport Technologies, LLC, established in 1997, is a transportation division specializing in hauling metal waste, demolition and construction materials by utilizing roll-off, dump trucks, and tractor-trailers. Mountain Laurel Environmental Corporation was established in 2000 as a waste disposal and recycling division. The company utilizes 110 acres for waste recycling, waste transfer, and Class IV landfill. Greeneville Iron & Metals, Inc., established in 1946, is a recycling division specializing in recycling scrap iron, metals, and cardboard. They utilize balers, cranes, flatteners, and hydraulic shears to prepare metals for the steel mills and smelters. The three individual companies are family owned and operated; together they have 40 employees. These companies are able to provide a turn-key package to industries for safe environmental recycling and waste disposal. A complete turn-key building tear down/demolition service is offered. This provides multiple services in one economical company. A new recycling concept was unveiled this year. It is a full service mobile recycling unit called Scrap Guy. It was patented and trademarked, and the concept is believed to be the beginning of a new wave in recycling. It is fun, clean, credible, and convenient to the customer.
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