Pillar Innovations

Headquarters

Grantsville, MD

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Pillar Innovations is an employee-owned turnkey industrial contractor headquartered in Grantsville, Maryland. It provides contract manufacturing, fabrication and machining, custom machine building, electrical panels, automation, instrumentation, communications, fiber optics, fire protection, and technology solutions for aggregate, automotive, electric utility, manufacturing, mining, municipal, and oil and natural gas markets.

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