Having Supply Chain Issues?
by Jeff Kunkel, Chair, Board of Directors
The Electrical Association is proud to have ATEK Distribution as a Yearlong Sponsor. With help from our generous sponsors, we are able to provide valuable programs and resources to help our electrical contractors succeed. Please remember to call our sponsors and product/service members when you purchase products and services. We have invited our Yearlong Sponsors to contribute an article focusing on how they can help electrical contractors....
If you're having supply chain issues, ATEK Distribution, a member and generous yearlong sponsor of the Electrical Association, has solutions for you! Read more from Jeff Anderson, ATEK President, below....
Is your business being affected by supply chain issues? Our clients are everywhere, and they are not having this experience!
My name is Jeff Anderson, and I’m the president and co-founder of ATEK Distribution. We founded ATEK in 2018 with the mission of making it easier for electricians to locate the products that they need. To do this, we locally source our products. While this may seem like electrical distribution on a small scale, we’ve been successful in applying this method to not only local projects, and national projects, but also international projects as well.
I’ve spent nearly three decades in the industry, and I know that running a smaller contractor business is difficult enough without unforeseen factors. ATEK understands that these small businesses give opportunities to families and communities that larger enterprises just can’t, and they’re the ones who need our support.
Much like the Electrical Association, whom we’ve been a proud member of for 3.5 years, we staff our team with the best. With our team in place, we’ve supported some extraordinary projects.
On a local level, ATEK has supported municipal and city government agencies, and educational institutions such as the University of Minnesota. At U of M, we provided critical infrastructure for a systems upgrade. ATEK provided a 15kV medium-voltage, vault-mounted SF6 gas switchgear to build out necessary upgrades. The upgrade increased capacity to provide power to three new buildings that the university constructed.
On a national level, ATEK supports the military and is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). We've completed projects for Pope Army Air Base, Ft Bragg and continue to grow our team with more of our talented veterans.
We’ve also worked with a local minority contractor to deliver all lighting, load centers, panelboards, and miscellaneous electrical materials for the construction of state-of-the-art senior-living facilities in Ladd, Newton, and Henry, Illinois. These HUD-funded locations were part of a funding initiative by Illinois to increase services in smaller municipalities.
On an international level, the US State Department created a project to modernize and upgrade lighting at the American Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. ATEK provided all the LED lighting for the UNISON-sourced project. The project resulted in significantly increased energy savings with lower maintenance overhead.
Let us help you complete your projects under budget and on time. We can provide the set-asides needed to help you compete for local, state-funded, and federal projects.
ATEK Distribution • (651) 900-1476