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In 1940, a young Lehigh University graduate named Donald B. Stabler entered the highway construction business. On January 12, 1940, with a check for $8.10 payable to the Wallis Coal Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the foundation was laid for Stabler Companies Inc., which today includes ten subsidiary companies, 1200 employees, over 6,000 customers with a gross volume of over $200 million. Over the past 60 years, the Stabler companies have come to be recognized as pioneers and leaders in the industries they serve. In 1955, a growing sole proprietorship, Donald B. Stabler Contractor, merged into Stabler Construction Company (now merged into Eastern Industries, Inc.), which performed construction and reconstruction projects throughout Pennsylvania's highway system and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. In the same year, Protection Services Inc. was formed and today is one of the largest full service suppliers of work zone traffic control equipment in the country, employing 350 people and servicing 100,000 job locations annually from 47 locations and two manufacturing facilities. Major manufactured products are flashing lights, barricades, plastic drums, flashing arrow boards, temporary construction signs, permanent highway advisory signs, crash attenuators, and work area lighting. PSI also provides a full complement of resale products such as changeable message boards, cones, sign stands, delineators, and pavement marking tape. DBS Transit Company was started in 1965 to supply trucking services for the needs of the construction and materials division. DBS Transit Inc. is currently providing air service for its affiliated companies through the use of its Citation II and Bell 222 helicopter. The 1976 acquisition of Eastern Industries, Inc. provided Stabler Companies Inc. with its largest member in terms of employee population (650 in peak season) and is currently one of the top 50 aggregate producers in the United States. Eastern Industries, Inc., which has quarrying and construction divisions, offers a wide range of services to the construction industry. The quarrying division produces over 7,500,000 tons of stone per year and operates 17 quarries, 1 ready-mix plant, 2 concrete block plants, 12 blacktop plants, and services customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware. The construction division performs both new construction and rehabilitation road projects for both PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in the role of either prime contractor or subcontractor. Elco-Hausman Construction Corp. also joined the Stabler team in 1976 and is a total service construction company performing blacktop, sewer, grading, and concrete construction in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. A 1983 addition, Stabler Development Company is primarily a land holding company and along with Eastern Industries, owns and leases over 7,000 acres of land, which contains most of the stone reserves (500 million tons) of the quarry and gravel operations. Stabler Land Company, which was formed in 1984, is the developer of approximately 1,700 acres in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. With easy access to New York City, Philadelphia, and the other metropolitan areas in the northeast, this distinctively planned corporate and residential community, known as Stabler Center, offers prime development property. Stabler Center presently includes Stabler Corporate Center, a first-class office and research park; Business Park East and West, professional business parks; Valley Green, Valley Green South, The Village of Valley Green, and Sunrise Valley at Stabler Center, upscale single-family residential communities; and, The Center Valley Club, a premier upscale 18-hole bent grass championship golf course open for public play. The course opened in June 1992 and has played host to two former PGA Nike Tour tournaments in 1998 and 1999. Proposed future projects for Stabler Center include a hotel/conference center, as well as a lifestyle shopping center.Work Area Protection Corp., a Chicago area based manufacturer and supplier of traffic cones, drums, strobe, rotary and barricade lights, signs and sign stands, safety vests, stop/slow paddles, flags, Solar Arrow Boards and Message Centers was a 1986 acquisition. From its 50,000 square foot facility, Work Area produces over 1,700,000 cones and nearly 100,000 drums annually. Work Area's products are sold through distributors throughout the United States. Precision Solar Controls Inc. of Garland, Texas makes a full line of solar powered products, including Solar Message Centers, Solar Advance Warners, Solar Mobile Traffic Monitors and a full line of LED traffic lights, all of which currently utilize its patented lens designs. Precision Solar Controls, which was acquired in 1990, is one of the nation's leading suppliers of solar technology products that service the highway industry and is one of the leading traffic light manufacturers in this country. ASTI Transportation Systems, Inc., located in New Castle, Delaware, is the newest addition to the Stabler family, joining its sister companies in 1999. ASTI serves the nations demand for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Advanced Traffic Management Systems, and Smart Work Zone needs. Their product line consists of various detectors (traffic queue length, low visibility, road flooding conditions, over-height vehicles) and cameras, plus work zone intrusion alarms, and a computerized traffic management system. SCI Products Inc. was formed in 2003 to hold the patents on several products and provide a sales force for both Work Area Protection's and Precision Solar Controls products'.
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