The original door holder
Herbert Charles Zang started the Zang story in 1948 in the basement of his home on Starin Avenue. For a long time, we sold raceway and wire management products, basically commodities. Herb’s son Tom joined the business in 1967, and Tom’s son Ryan joined in 1999. We worked from our office at the dead end of Prairie Avenue and found clever solutions to tough problems for our customers.
But we always wanted more.
And not long after Ryan came on, we transformed our business. It was scary. There were sleepless nights. But we remade Zang as the go-to name for custom-made transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, and…tell you what, if it’s medium voltage and you need it, just give us a call and we’ll figure it out.
We believe in putting others first, whether it’s our customers, our vendors, or other members on our team. We call that “holding the door.” We built a team who believes in our values and mission as much as we do. So we’re pretty thrilled about a future of helping all our customers find the fastest answers to their toughest problems. We think the OG door-holder (that’s Herb) would approve.
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Tom
Someday we’re going to put a poster in our office that says “love what you do and who you do it with.” And if he’d let us, we’d put a picture of Tom on it. He started working for the original
Door-Holder (his dad) 57 years ago. He took over
in 1975 and brought his own son, Ryan, onto the team a couple decades after that.
Tom loves helping people solve their medium voltage problems. Some of those folks are the great-grandchildren of the original clients we
helped back in the day. If you’ve got a big project that interfaces with a utility company, you’re probably calling Tom. And thank goodness, too, because he knows substation yards and utility interconnects better than anybody we know.
When he’s not doing that, Tom is a family man. He’ll go golfing with his boys or watch his grandkids compete in a smorgasbord of sporting events. Or really, anything else as long as the family’s there.
Ryan
Ryan’s been finding clever solutions to tricky problems for 25 years now at Zang (unofficially, for 37). He’s a 3rd-generation electrical industry man, after his granddad (the original Door-Holder) and dad (who he still works with every day). Ryan runs larger projects like service entrances and really anything that has that extra layer of complication. Like most Zangs, he relishes a challenge.
You want to know where something is? You ask Ryan. He actually knows what’s in his kitchen junk drawer. If “geography bees” had been a thing when
he was a kid, he would have crushed them. Go ahead, ask him a state capital. Any one.
But what you really want to know is where you’re going to get that custom-designed transformer with the 2-year lead time. Ryan knows that too.
Ryan’s family and friends think he sells generators, or maybe light bulbs. Light switches? Lighters? That’s okay, he’d still go golfing, skiing, or fishing with any of them. But particularly with his wife and kids. You know…Ellicottville might just let him do all three at the same time.
Craig
If I told you electricity ran in Craig’s blood, you might think there’d been some freak accident. Or he’d taken AC/DC fandom waaay too far (actually…he’s not really a rock’n’roll guy). He’s just a 4th generation electrical industry man who helps folks transform that high voltage juice into medium voltage juice they can use.
If you’re calling from the Buffalo, Rochester, or Binghamton areas, you’re calling Craig for transformers, rubber goods, and whatever else you need to get that medium voltage power flowing.
Craig has been doing his electrical lineage proud with his work at Zang for the last 13 years.
When Craig gets home at the end of the day, he kisses his wife, then heads back outside. He’s got a mission: make the world a greener, prettier place. Specifically his yard. On his zero-turn mower. Craig’s green thumb works on all sorts of flora, but where he really excels are the gentle giants of the forest: trees. Not pines though. He doesn’t trust any tree that won’t drop its leaves in winter.
Steve
When you need some serious medium voltage power and it absolutely, positively needs to be uninterruptible…you call Steve. He’s been with Zang for 8 years and is our resident UPS specialist. If you’re calling from Syracuse, Albany, the Hudson Valley, or the Adirondacks, he’ll be the guy you
talk to for all your medium voltage and critical power needs.
Now if someone like Steve throws around the word “peacock” you might think he’s planning to wear a
really loud suit or a colorful hat, but he’s a pretty literal guy: he’s talking actual peacocks, which he and his wife raise for fun, as well as pheasants and, of course, chickens (which they raise both for fun and food).
When he’s not hobby-farming, you might find Steve hiking and camping in his backyard. Or preferably, the Adirondacks. Accompanied by
some of his favorite people in life: his wife and
kids.
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