In 2009, Granger hired 16 employees including a specialist whose single purpose is to make Granger Energy more efficient.
Granger is a Lansing-based management company that has also moved into the energy business, developing landfill gas recovery projects that use methane gas produced by landfills to create power.
“Growth is a little trickier now,” says CEO Keith Granger. “What we’re really focused on is maximizing the existing assets that we have.”
The 16 hires are split between the company’s waste services and energy services and seven of them are new hires.
Granger has 14 energy projects in six states. Some of the sites have gas deficits. Adding engines can expand access to gas and therefore make the project more productive.
“By doing that, we’re growing as a company,” Granger says. “We’re creating something that’s in high demand.”
Granger is also pursuing new energy projects and predicts some growth in 2010.
“We’re fortunate we’re able to plan for some growth,” he says. “We’re not exempt from where the economy is.”
Source: Keith Granger, Granger
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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