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executive to leading the operations of the LFG manufacturing business, after 15 years in construction.
LFG’ s product range covers the full spectrum of commercial and industrial electrical distribution equipment: UL 891 switchboards handling loads with up to 5000 amps, UL 67 panelboards for smaller power requirements, UL 508A control cabinets, and UL 1773 copper bus wireway systems, as well as enclosures, transformers, and more.“ We continue to invest in R & D and roll out new products,” reveals Zac.“ While 100 percent of our business is commercial and industrial, we have our sights firmly set on the data center space. We’ re very close to UL approval on a power distribution unit – a distribution panel with an integrated transformer within the same cabinet, allowing two different voltages in a single enclosure. That approval is expected within the next couple of months, and it gives us the ability to go fully after the data center market.”
Yet the company’ s real differentiator is the philosophy baked into how it operates. The four major US electrical distribution manufacturers run on firstin, first-out queues that can stretch a year or more from order to delivery, and hyperscale data centers could easily displace smaller contractors entirely. LFG’ s answer is $ 20 million of inventory always held on the shelf – raw steel, copper, and critical components – meaning a bespoke piece of equipment can be turned around in weeks rather than months.“ The cost of holding that capital is real,” Zac acknowledges.“ However, we’ ve made that commitment because we know it’ s the long-term play.”
With the company slogan‘ for builders, by builders,’ Zac and his team understand job-site realities intricately – from
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