We’ve been updating you on the construction progress of our new 12,000 sq ft warehouse and now can show you that the shelves are full of factory-new Siemens, General Electric, ABB, and TECO/Westinghouse electric motors!! As you can see, it is fully stocked with factory-new AC motors up to 6000 HP; new DC motors up to 700 HP; and new vertical motors up to 700 HP. We are now able to offer an unparalleled stock of these products which are ready to ship for our clients around the globe!
In special recognition of our sales excellence and growth as a Channel Partner of GE Vernova, ECEE received an award from GE Vernova at the Las Vegas EASA convention in June 2024.
Presented by Greta Reyna, Sales Manager GE Power Conversion
Presented to Edward Pearce III, National Business Development Manager/Sales and Tyler Whitley, Sales Engineer
We hope that you’re doing well and have been safe and healthy since our last update! These past few months have been as busy as ever at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company, and we wanted to update you on some new developments.
Recently, we’ve completed construction on our 12,000 square foot facility that will exclusively house brand new GE and Siemens AC and DC motors. Thanks to our growing partnerships with both companies, this building will be stocked with hundreds of motors by the end of the month. The addition of this newest building increases our total under-roof warehouse capacity to nearly 80,000 square feet. With more space to house new motors, we are now more prepared than ever to serve the needs of our clients.
Expanding Our Inventory
Because we now have the space to accommodate more products, we have expanded our new motor inventory by 30% over the last six months. This increase has come despite a number of issues that have been plaguing all manner of businesses around the globe. US inflation to consumer prices has increased 6.2% over this time last year, more than the projected 5.8%, due partially to increased prices for energy, labor costs, and freight costs. Likewise, the continuing shortage of copper which we discussed in our last newsletter (which is a major component of electric motors due to its high electrical conductivity) has caused a spike in the price per pound of the raw resource. However, despite these economical shortcomings, we are proud to say that new products are arriving monthly at our warehouse. You can always count on us to have new AC motors up to 6000 HP, new DC motors up to 700 HP, and new vertical motors up to 700 HP. These products are in stock and ready to ship for our clients around the globe! With prices expected to increase over the coming years, we are advising our customers that there’s no better time to buy than now.
Shining the Spotlight on Our Employees
Since we are approaching the end of the year, we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight a few of our valued employees and their contributions to East Coast Electrical Equipment Company:
This year marks the 36th anniversary of our longest active employee, Len Boykin! After graduating from NC State University in 1984, Len joined our company in 1985 and has been an integral member of the East Coast Electrical Equipment team ever since. Len serves as our most senior sales engineer and is a tremendous asset to our company. Our customers benefit from Len’s knowledge regularly, as he handles increasingly complex new and used motor applications and sales. We are certainly grateful for Len as he continues to improve our business every single day.
2021 also saw the induction of a new member of the East Coast team, Edward Pearce, III. Edward joined the company this year as our New Motor Coordinator. He has quickly become a valuable part of our team by focusing his strategy and efforts on factory orders directly from GE and Siemens. With the growing influx of new electric motor inventory here within our warehouses, as well as the daily increase of requests from our customers, Edward has been very busy maintaining our new motor inventory levels, as well as producing new sales for AC, DC, and Vertical motors. Though he is new to our staff, Edward is not new to the electric motor industry. As a third-generation family member in the electric motor business, he follows in the footsteps of his late grandfather, Edward Pearce, Sr., and his late father, Ed Pearce, Jr.
This spotlight would not be complete without the mention of Tim Pearce’s retirement from East Coast Electrical Equipment in September. After graduating from NC State University in 1980, Tim began working full-time in the motor business alongside his father, Ed Sr., and brothers, Mike (our current President) and Ed Jr.. After 41 years in the industry, Tim found another calling. In 2021, he became ordained as a Baptist minister and is currently working on a Master of Arts Degree in Christian Ministry from Campbell University Divinity School. We are incredibly proud of Tim and know that he will do great things on his new journey. We wish him the very best of luck!
Moving Forward
Finally, East Coast Electrical Equipment is pleased to announce our sponsorship and exhibition in three upcoming industry conventions:
We hope to see you out at one or all of these events. Please stop by our booth and say hello! Reach out to us today with any questions or to learn more about our ever-increasing inventory of new and used electric motors from the most respected brands in the industry.
We hope you’re doing well and have been enjoying the start of your summer so far! There were a lot of fun traditions we were all forced to miss out on last year and we are excited at the prospect of making up for lost time over the next few months. We’ve been busier than ever here at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company. With the influx of commerce nationwide and the rapid development of growing areas like our own Triangle region here in North Carolina, business is booming. In fact, we’ve just finished pouring the pad for a brand new building at our headquarters! We’re proud to announce that we’re breaking ground on a new 12,000 sq ft facility that will exclusively house all brand new GE and Siemens motors. We look forward to sharing more about this project as it continues to be built.
The primary reason we’re reaching out to you today, however, is to let you know about something very important going on in the electric motor industry. Though our new facility will be a top-of-the-line space for housing new motors, we don’t advise you to wait until it’s complete to make your next motor purchase. That’s because we have a number of reasons to believe that right now is the best time to purchase an electric motor.
You’ve likely read a great deal in the news lately about the return of inflation. Consumer prices have ascended more than 4% from where they were a year ago, which is the largest increase in more than a decade. The United States typically sees average price increases of 2.5% annually, and we’ve been growing at about that pace since 1986. Beyond the obvious interruptions we’ve had in the supply chain due to Covid-19, there are a number of other factors causing this new jump, including higher labor costs, higher freight costs, higher transportation demand, port delays, increased demand in some products, higher commodity prices, and shortages in a wide number of resources including gasoline, lumber, and shipping containers, which all inadvertently influence the availability of many consumer goods. It’s a perfect storm.
One shortage that directly affects our industry is the current copper shortage. Copper is a large component of many electric motors due to its high electrical conductivity. It enhances the electrical energy efficiency of a motor and is commonly used in coil windings, bearings, collectors, brushes, and connectors of many electric motors. Recently, Copper hit an all-time high with a rapid price increase of 27% in 2021. This surge has been caused in part by the growing focus on renewable energy and the production of more electric motors and equipment. While that’s a great thing for the planet and electric motor companies, the growing demand for this resource has caused electric motors to be more expensive— a trend we predict will continue in the coming years.
With the large number of triggering factors at play, we have no cause to believe that inflation rates will return to normal anytime soon. Beyond that, with the demand for copper specifically, we believe that the cost of electric motors will only continue to increase with or without a stable inflation rate. Now is the time to buy. Prices of both new and rebuilt electric motors have already increased and are on a path to keep rising. If you foresee an electric motor purchase in the near future, we strongly urge you to make that purchase as soon as possible. Buying an electric motor today could very likely mean money in the bank for you tomorrow.
Whether you’re looking for a solid investment for your business or anticipate a future purchase that you could be saving money on now, we’re here to help you with your electric motor needs. Reach out to us today with any questions you may have or to learn more about our extensive inventory of new and used electric motors from the best brand names in the industry!
You can view our inventory of new GE AC motors here. You can view our inventory of new Siemens AC motors here.
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We hope you’ve had a smooth start to this year, so far. As we navigate the tail end of wintertime and look forward to the future, we hope you’ve not lost sight of all there is to appreciate about being present during this time in history and the many ways our society is learning and growing from all that we’ve been through. We have achieved so much and if the past is any indication, we will get to the other side of these current challenges we face as a stronger and more unified people. A lot may have changed over the past year, but there are many things we can all still rely on: the resilience of the human spirit, the synchronous ebbs and flows of nature, the marvels that have been produced by human ingenuity, and the reliability of a quality-made product.
Among the many feats we as humans have achieved, we believe the high-level engineering found in industrial motors is one of the bright spots. Consider all of the remarkable ways electric motors have advanced our society over the past hundred years. AC motors alone have given us the ability to make air conditioners, irrigation pumps, transportation equipment, and conveyor systems. Just think of all the ways your life is bettered by those innovations! AC motors are used for a wide range of applications due to their flexibility, efficiency, and operation.
We at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company have an extensive selection of new and rebuilt AC motors. In fact, we’re the largest stocking distributor in the nation for AC Medium Voltage motors by GE, as well as the exclusive DC motor stocking distributor for GE, a company that has been setting the standard in manufacturing rotating machines for over 125 years. Not only does GE offer quality workmanship but they have the most competitive prices in the large AC and DC motor industry. GE has manufactured motors and generators for some of the first commercial and industrial electrical applications and they continue to deliver innovative electrical and mechanical power solutions to the world. Their versatile and robust designs are ideal for a wide range of challenging industrial environments and applications. GE has one of the largest capacities for full load testing and every machine is tested in their global state-of-the-art facilities to exacting requirements. Some other benefits of choosing this trusted brand for your AC motors include their high-quality design, high efficiency, low starting current, leading power factor, and improved electrical system reliability. All GE rotors are carefully balanced to comply with standards requirements, and because of their efficiency, customers of GE AC motors enjoy operating cost savings as well as a better overall starting capability which reduces the starting equipment cost. Additionally, with GE AC motors, you’ll see reduced utility penalties associated with lagging power factor and reduced current pulsations for non-steady loads.
Our extensive inventory of new GE AC Medium Voltage motors ranges from 200-5,000 HP and 900-3600 RPM. If you happen to need a DC motor, we also carry a stock from 5-700 HP in New GE DC motors. We enjoyed a record year of incredible growth with our GE products last year, and are also incredibly proud to stand behind this world-class brand.
We also enjoyed a record year of incredible growth with our Siemens products last year, and are also incredibly proud to stand behind this world-class brand. Siemens industrial electric motors provide an optimum solution for every application, are backed by 150 years of experience, and are unrivaled when it comes to reliability and performance.
Whether you’re in the market for the incredible value offered by GE or the incomparable quality of Siemens products, East Coast Electrical Equipment Company is your one-stop solution for AC Medium Voltage electric motors. We believe in the power of our products and in the intentions our customers have when they make an electric motor purchase. We hope you’ll think of us as you work towards building a brighter future for the world.
You can view our inventory of new GE AC motors here. You can view our inventory of new Siemens AC motors here. Have you had a good experience working with our business? We’d greatly appreciate a Google Review!
Fall has finally arrived in what has certainly been the most unpredictable year we’ve ever experienced as a business. Our hearts go out to our clients, customers, and the many other businesses who have had to navigate an unprecedented number of challenges throughout this year so far. Though we, ourselves, have been surprised by many of the changes sprung upon us, we have looked for the opportunities presented by these changes as a way to improve, evolve, and adapt. Ingenuity and an eye to the future are built into the business of electric motors, after all. So, we at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company have taken this year and its challenges to learn about where we can improve in our own efficiencies and for the benefit of our customers. We’ve worked on updating and upgrading the way we run our business in order to provide you, our customers, with an even better and more seamless purchasing experience. We’ve done this by modernizing our technology and implementing tools like an internet-based phone system, cloud-based data storage, and continual improvement to our website’s user experience. These improvements have proven to be incredibly effective in streamlining our operations and we’ve enjoyed hearing the feedback from our customers who have taken notice. It turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks! Alongside these new efficiencies, we’re still offering the same personalized service you can only find from a family-owned business. We’re still picking up the phone and assisting customers directly from our headquarters in Youngsville, NC. The days of old are gone, but we can take what we’ve learned from our 52 years of service to our customers and move forward.
Along with our recent technological advances, another highlight of the year has been a recent development with one of our top brands. East Coast Electrical Equipment Company is proud to announce a partnership with General Electric Industrial Motors, a Wolong Company, (GEIM) as the exclusive stocking point for their DC motors. This mutually beneficial relationship has developed over the course of a 20-year relationship and GEIMs’ recognition of our exceptional ability to sell their products. We are currently the largest AC medium voltage stocking distributor of GE Industrial Motors (GEIM) in North America, and we are proud to add this new honor of being their exclusive DC distributor to our credentials. They’ve even featured us on their website as their authorized motor distributor!
“East Coast Electrical Equipment Company is an outstanding partner to the GEIM team. Their knowledge, ingenuity, and integrity allow us to serve our customers quickly. They are our largest medium voltage stocking distributor, and we are very proud that we are expanding our partnership into DC Motors, which will allow us to build an even better world that works!” – Jim Kvas, National Sales Manager at GEIM.
GEIM makes a high-quality product and offers superior service to their customers. Furthermore, they not only consider our needs and market knowledge as a distributor, they also listen to what our customers are saying and implement that feedback in their manufacturing and design. They take a genuine interest in what our customers are after, from features to price, to speed— and we must say, the swiftness of their lead times is unsurpassed. It’s our shared commitment to quality and service that makes this relationship such a natural fit. We look forward to all of the benefits that this partnership will offer our current and future customers. Like General Electric’s newly-coined slogan says, together “we’ll keep building a world that works.”
You can view the inventory of our GEIM new DC motors here.
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Since opening our doors in 1968, East Coast Electrical Equipment Company has been dedicated to delivering our clients the best in electric motors and controls at the lowest prices. Along with our commitment to high-quality products, we also consistently strive to provide our customers with the compassionate and thorough customer service they deserve.
While operating this way has been our norm since the beginning, we’re always honored to be recognized by other organizations for our continued dedication to excellent customer service. That’s why we’re especially honored that Siemens chose us for their Business Excellence Award. This award recognizes East Coast Electrical Equipment Company for our outstanding sales accomplishments. We not only are one of Siemens largest stocking distributors of medium voltage electric motors and controls across North America, but we also demonstrated our commitment to mutual business development.
Our own Tim Pearce knows the value of doing business with an esteemed company like Siemens, and has stated, “We like working with them because of their own knowledge of [electric motor and controls] application and their quality. Their quality is the best in the industry. In the eight years that we’ve worked with them, I can’t remember a time that a warranty was claimed that was because of a motor problem. That’s unheard of; that’s quality.”
Mr. Pearce went on to say, “They’re not the lowest price in the marketplace, but that name is the gold standard. You get what you pay for. And I’ll tell you another thing: they’re just good people. If you call [them] with any questions and they don’t pick up, I can bet I’ll hear back in about thirty minutes. I can’t say that about anyone else [in the industry].”
We at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company like to think our success can largely be attributed to many of the tenets we share with Siemens. Our standard includes delivering the best error-free products to our customers on time, every time.
We proudly adhere to the Siemens’ credo that a worldwide business isn’t complete without world-class service. East Coast Electrical Equipment Company aims to provide premier support to every one of our customers, regardless of location. No matter the issue, we’re confident that one of our experienced team members can find the right solution for your organization.
Providing excellent customer service is one of our top priorities, and along with that is our commitment to offering the best prices available. We believe that working with Siemens has always been worth the investment and our loyal customers often say the same about us. We’re proud to continuously deliver the best in electric motors and controls to our customers at the lowest prices in the industry.
When you’ve been in business for over fifty years, the ongoing goal is for your business to grow and thrive. We at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company are honored to have received recognition for demonstrating a continued commitment to these goals in the form of Siemens’ Business Excellence Award, and we look forward to continuing the tradition we share with this global brand of providing customers with the exact equipment they need at exactly the right price.
Whether this year has exceeded all expectations or your business didn’t perform as well as you had hoped, you are gearing up for 2019 and will need the right equipment in place to help you reach your goals. If you are searching for AC synchronous electric motors and will need one or more electric motors this Holiday season, then be sure to take a look at all that we offer here at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company.
We at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company have developed a reputation of always supporting our clients. Ever since our inception decades ago, we’ve been focused on providing our clients with the very best selection of electric motors and at the most competitive pricing. When it comes to AC synchronous electric motors, we’ll be sure to have what you need in inventory. If not, we can be counted on to get you the electric motor you need as quickly as possible and at the best-possible pricing.
Take a look at our AC synchronous electric motors selection this Holiday; we’re sure you’ll find what you’re in need of. You can learn more about the electric motors we offer and how else we can support your business when you browse through our East Coast Electrical Equipment Company website, https://eastcoastmotor.com. If you have any questions or you’d like an electric motor quote, then please call us today or use the simple contact form found on our website.
In order to keep your business running well in 2019, you’re going to need the right suppliers to support you with your equipment needs. Whether your business will be in need of redesigned or remanufactured electric motors, we at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company will have the solutions needed to keep your business running soundly in 2019 and beyond.
For decades, we at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company have been supporting our clients both locally, across the US, and abroad with consistently high-quality electric motor solutions. All of our electric motor solutions are priced in the most competitive manner for value that’s very difficult to top. In the case of remanufactured electric motors, we’ll select the right equipment piece from our large inventory, disassemble, and then remanufacture to meet the industry’s highest standards. With us, you can also count on 24-hour shipping. We’ll get your equipment to your door quickly and cut lead times as much as possible.
Your business will find superior redesigned and remanufactured electric motors at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company. Learn more today about how we at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company can support your business by browsing through our website, https://eastcoastmotor.com. If you have any questions about any of the quality electric motor solutions we offer or you’d like a quote, then please contact us today at 888-560-8122 or you can use the contact form found on our website.
The Holiday season is here and although this is a time for rest and relaxation, you’ll be hard at work doing what’s best for your business. If you’re currently in need of DC electric motors at the most competitive pricing, then you’ll find the electric motors you need during the Holiday break here with us at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company.
We at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company are known for our immense inventory of electric motors which happens to be the biggest in the country. We offer virtually every new DC electric motor model and HP from all top manufacturers. Apart from the new DC electric motors we have available, we also offer remanufactured DC electric motor solutions. We’ll be able to help you with every electric motor need you have, and we’ll also provide you with solutions at the lowest-possible pricing.
Focus on finding the right DC electric motors during the Holidays and you can do just that by taking a look at what we offer here at East Coast Electrical Equipment Company. You can take a look at all that we offer today by browsing through our East Coast Electrical Equipment Company website, https://eastcoastmotor.com. If you have any questions about any of the electric motor solutions we offer or you’d like an electric motor quote, then give us a call today or you can use the contact form found on our website.
