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Oconee South Carolina has been JDI Industrial Services home for over 27 years now. It is where Joel Davis and Allen Smith began this business to serve the many clients we have in Oconee, which is situated between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. JDI proudly cares for our clients across the county and in communities such as Seneca, Westminster, Walhalla, West Union, Fair Play, and more.
Since the early 1990’s, Oconee County has been developing with an emphasis on manufacturing, business, and tourism. The county development is focused on bettering current manufacturing and surrounding markets, and inviting more economic development to the county. Its largest growing city Seneca and the county seat of Walhalla both host several major fortune 500 manufacturers.
Manufacturing is at the heart of Oconee County’s success, making it a top spot for companies looking to grow. Positioned along the I-85 corridor between Atlanta and Charlotte, Oconee County is a manufacturing powerhouse ready to achieve business. The county offers easy access to major transportation hubs, including three international airports, and direct connections to the Port of Charleston and Port of Savannah, via the nearby Greer Inland Port.
Plus, the county has over 500 acres of county-owned property ready for development, including a new 42-acre graded, pad-ready parcel, with an adjacent 278 acres of contiguous land, which is just two miles from I-85. With all the due diligence work completed and infrastructure available at the county-owned sites, Oconee allows manufacturers to meet the scale their operations need quickly and easily.
As a licensed mechanical contracting company operating in Oconee, JDI Industrial Services has the proven resources to execute your project. Our capabilities in mechanical contracting include welding, electrical, and construction, thereby minimizing downtime and costs for our customers. Most Oconee mechanical contractors can only do your mechanical or just piping, but not JDI. This is simply due to the fact that the staff employed to the company are very efficient, highly trained, and diverse. As such, we do small repairs as well as complete rebuilds. We also pre-fabricate, assemble, disassemble, test, and inspect while providing mechanical and electrical upgrades as well as preventative maintenance.
Safety and quality are our priority and so we are very proud to have designed, installed, and implemented several systems throughout the US while at the same time providing our customers with the highest level of service. Whether your piping project is a standalone or a part of general construction, multi-discipline project, chiefly we are skilled, experienced, and equipped to handle it.
With JDI, our clients rely on our industry-leading millwright service to keep their industrial equipment operating at an optimal level. As a leader in the millwright services community, we take full responsibility for our customers’ equipment when they arrive at the job site.
Our millwrights are experienced in installing, dismantling, maintaining, repairing, and moving machinery. They not only read blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures, but they also know how to navigate software programs as equipment becomes more advanced.
We are aware that the success of your company depends upon your machines running efficiently as such we perform maintenance, such as lubrication of machinery, bearing replacement, seal replacement, cleaning of parts during an overhaul as well as preventative maintenance.
As an added benefit to our customers, we complement our clients by providing machine moving services. Whenever your project is ready, we can deliver it to your job site and rig it into place. Overall, we can move everything from small machines to entire plant relocations and we offer all forms of industrial rigging. This includes dismantling, machinery moving, and plant relocation, Additionally, we manage all the logistics for rigging including transportation and installation of the machinery you need to complete or start your plant or productions.
However you need your power to feed into your production equipment, we can make it happen. We provide journeymen-level electricians to do full installations, replacements, upgrades, and annual maintenance for our clients so that their production needs are able to stay on track. Additionally, you’ll discover JDI’s ability to provide electrical services can complement your process piping and mechanical work to be fully operational. Why call three contractors when you can simply call one to do it all?
Oftentimes, a project is not just about placing equipment and piping, and it is equally necessary to build the foundations and structure to lay the foundations of where it all goes.
Facilities in our area trust our ability to get them from grade to finished. Our team can handle the industrial construction planning and services you need in preparation for a project’s next steps. From pads, dike walls, sumps and foundations to pits, trench drains, walkways and equipment grouting, we’ve got the experience and resources to get it done. We also offer rebar fabrication, excavation, forming, and anchors.
We provide passionate, superior service while bringing honor to God – always.
Oconee County’s manufacturing sector is booming, with 25% of the workforce driving the industry’s success, ranking Oconee the 6th highest in South Carolina out of 46 counties. The manufacturing workforce is the 10th largest in the state. Strategic partnerships with Tri-County Technical College, Hamilton Career and Technology Center, and nearby universities like Clemson, support this solid manufacturing base. On top of that, businesses here can tap into a labor shed of 650,000 potential workers within a 45-mile radius.
Oconee County was named after a historic Cherokee town and the word “Ae-quo-nee”, meaning “land beside the water.” Oconee (Cherokee: ᎤᏊᏄ) town developed on the Cherokee trading path near present-day Oconee Station State Historic Site along Oconee Creek. The town was located along the Cherokee trading path of the early 18th century between the English colonial Atlantic port of Charleston and the Mississippi River to the west.
European-American settlement in this far western area of the colony did not begin until the late eighteenth century. Most did not take place until decades after the American Revolutionary War. South Carolina jurisdictions were successively called parishes, counties, judicial districts and counties again. Oconee County was not created until 1868, after the American Civil War and during the Reconstruction era. It was taken from part of the Pickens District and named after Oconee Town.
In the 1900’s the area had textiles manufacturing in towns like Newry and Seneca, as well as Westminster and Walhalla. The area was mostly agricultural aside from the textile industry that was booming, and then later became a more automotive and chemicals-focused industry in the 1980’s and on.
Current residents refer to Oconee County as the “Golden Corner” due to its status as South Carolina’s north-western most county.
Oconee county has a total area of 673.57 square miles (1,744.5 km2), of which 626.56 square miles (1,622.8 km2) is land and 47.01 square miles (121.8 km2) is water.
Three large man-made lakes provide residents with sport fishing, water skiing, and sailing as well as hydroelectric power. The largest lake is Lake Hartwell, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1955 and 1963. Lake Keowee is the second-largest lake and the Duke Energy Oconee Nuclear Station operates by the lake. Lake Jocassee is the third-largest and is a source of hydroelectric energy, but is also popular for its scenery and numerous waterfalls.
Bad Creek Reservoir, located in the mountains above Jocassee, is also used for generating electricity during peak hours. The water level can fall by tens of feet per hour and, during off-peak times, water is pumped back into the lake for the next peak period. Because of the dramatic changes in water level due to these uses, boating and swimming are prohibited in this reservoir.
Because of these developments, Oconee County and its economic development team has attracted major manufacturers such as BASF, Schneider Electric, BorgWarner, Itron, and JTEKT, as well as many others from various industries. JDI is the leading Oconee Mechanical Contractor for these companies.
Since 1997, JDI Industrial Services has provided the highest level of mechanical and industrial contracting services throughout the Southeast. Our goal is to be 100% committed to exceeding our customer’s expectations and keeping costs low. As THE leading Oconee Mechanical Contractor, we are adamant about creating lifelong customers that get what they expect, and give clients better service than they’ve ever had before.
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I tell people that if you want to focus on your production, while a great contractor takes care of the process, you should call JDI. I can call on them to do everything at our facility. Why call three contractors when you can just call one?
“JDI performs extremely well, which is why I keep calling them to our manufacturing facility. If there’s a need for piping, electrical, whatever it may be, JDI is my first call. There’s a proven trust I have in their expertise, and I also have the ability to trust that I don’t have to micromanage their team.”
“Working with the team at JDI Industrial has been, and continues to be, a wonderful experience. They listen to the customer throughout every stage of the project and work to provide a solution that meets our expectations in design, timing, and price. Their ability to self-perform has truly been a huge benefit and reason for this project being ahead of schedule.”
ISNetworld Member – JDI Industrial has maintained an A rating through ISNetworld since joining in 2012.
JDI is an Avetta Approved Contractor, and upholds the standards and credentials our partners require.
OSHA Trained – All team members are equipped with at least an OSHA 10 certification. Training is performed by our OSHA Certified Trainer and Safety Director, Tony Winchester.
We’re ready to start your next project in Oconee County. Contact our team with any questions or to tell us about your industrial services needs and we’ll take it from there.
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