January 2002

Geo Testing Firm Moves to Cortland

SJB Services selects Cortland for its Central New York headquarters

Cortland, NY -- SJB Services, Inc., a drilling and construction testing company, has selected the City of Cortland for its new Central New York headquarters. The firm recently completed a move into the former Seneca Automatic Door facility on Miller Street. Seneca Automatic Door moved to the Town of Cortlandville, building a larger new facility on Luker Road across from BorgWarner Morse TEC's powder metal plant.

With 140 employees in seven offices across upstate New York and one office in Gilbert, Pa., SJB Services will employ 28 at its Cortland headquarters and Syracuse satellite office. The company had 2001 revenues of $7.8 million and projects 2002 revenues of $10 million. SJB provides drilling, geotechnical engineering, and construction materials testing services to architects, engineers, environmental companies, and contractors.

SJB Services and its subsidiary, Empire Geo-Services, Inc., a Buffalo-based drilling and construction testing firm, also recently purchased Vanderhorst Geotechnical Engineering, PC, a Rochester-based firm with offices in Syracuse and Cuba, NY. This move followed the purchase of Maxim Technologies, with offices in Buffalo and Ithaca. The move to Cortland is part of a consolidation of those operations and the establishment of a Central New York headquarters with access to markets in Binghamton, Ithaca and Syracuse, taking advantage of Cortland's central location. With the addition of Vanderhorst Geotechnical, SJB Services now has full-service construction materials testing laboratories in Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany.

SJB Services maintains 25 drill rigs and five full-service laboratories that specialize in material testing of concrete, soil, masonry, structural steel, asphalt, and other construction-related materials. SJB has performed projects for clients that include the Buffalo/Niagara International Airport, SUNY Buffalo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Alfred University, Cornell University and General Electric.

Realtor David Yaman brokered the SJB Services project. The Seneca Automatic Door expansion was an IDA facilitated project.

"This is good news both for the City of Cortland and the Town of Cortlandville," said BDC/IDA Chairman Paul Slowey. "Both communities are seeing positive expansions, with a beautiful new facility for Seneca Automatic Door and a wonderful reuse of an great existing facility by SJB Services. We congratulate both companies for choosing Cortland to grow their operations."