By Jim Kinney, The Republican 

 

The Sandri Companies have their roots in fossil fuels with a fleet of fuel-oil trucks, a lubricant distributorship and gas stations from New Hampshire to upstate New York.

By George O'Brien

 

Business West

  

This Third-generation Company Has a History of Innovation

It all started in 1931, with the leasing of a tiny gas station on Main Street in downtown Greenfield. Over the next eight decades, the company started by A.R. Sandri, later to be led by his son, William, and, today, grandson-in-law Tim Van Epps, has diversified into everything from heating oil to golf courses; from wood pellets and stoves to photovoltaic installations. The common threads among the generations are an entrepreneurial spirit, a willingness to take calculated risks, and an ability to anticipate needed services and then provide them.

By RICHIE DAVIS

Recorder Staff

GREENFIELD-May 21, 2011 The kind of transformation that 82year-old Sandri Companies has been making — installing solar collectors and high-efficiency wood-pellet boilers as well as just petroleum products — may point the way as the state tries to develop “a more explicit economic development strategy,” a group of business and community leaders was told Friday.

ABC NEWS40 Interviews Setti Warren at Sandri Headquarters

 

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By DAVID RAINVILLE

Recorder Staff

GREENFIELD — Setti Warren, democratic candidate for U.S. senate, met with Sandri Companies executives to learn about the company’s ventures into the renewable resource market and see the energy provider’s newly installed solar array.

Local Energy Provider Plans to Use Ground Mounted System as Community Education and Sales Tool

 

In December of 2010, New England College commissioned a 1,000,000 BTU/h wood pellet boiler system on campus adjacent to the Science Building. The wood pellet boiler system was supplied by and the installation contracted through Sandri Energy of Greenfield, MA.  The wood pellet boiler working in conjunction with the solar hot water system provides 100% of the heat for the Science Building, replacing heat from the existing oil-fired boilers. 

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

Recorder Staff

Three western Massachusetts projects are among 11 across the state in line for $16.5 million in federal stimulus money officials say will create 485 jobs. The local projects - receiving $4.2 million of the funding - include the green renovation of a historic home in Ashfield and Conway, the addition of wood-pellet heating systems to a Valley oil company's repertoire and the rehab of a vacant Springfield mill building.

Progressive Fuel and Lubricants Supplier to Distribute BlueSky Diesel Exhaust Fluid throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Eastern New York

For Immediate Release
October 26, 2010

Greenfield, MA—Eighty years after A.R. Sandri leased his first gas station in Greenfield, MA, The Sandri Companies remains a family-owned business and has become one of New England’s largest motor fuels distributors with over 105 retail locations throughout the Northeast. Sandri is also known for its thriving heating fuel and service business, as well as their recent expansion into the Clean Energy Sector through distribution and of wood pellets, high-efficiency pellet heating equipment, and solar systems. Acknowledging this growth—and the Sandri family’s many accomplishments and generous community involvement—Sandri was selected as the Winner of the Large Business Category at the 2010 Family Business Association Awards for Massachusetts.

Fuel company wins state organization’s second award
By ANITA PHILLIPS

Recorder Staff

For Immediate Release
October 25, 2010

Sandri Energy, LLC announced it has signed exclusive distribution agreements with two premier Spanish solar component manufacturers: Fluitecnik, Inc. (photovoltaic panels) and Ingeteam, Inc. (inverters). Sandri’s exclusive territory for both products is the Northeastern United States. In addition, Sandri will install a 50kW photovoltaic array at its headquarters in Greenfield, MA.

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as well as State Energy Program (SEP) funds make Sandri’s OkoFEN boilers a bargain for homeowners.

Timothy Van Epps is president of Sandri Cos., an 80-year-old fuel oil company that is on a multimillion-dollar mission to convert heating customers to a common and cheap renewable resource: wood pellets.  In March Sandri received $3.2 million in federal stimulus funds to help commercial and institutional clients in Western Massachusetts replace petroleum-based heating systems with boilers that burn wood pellets. The pellet boilers have efficiency rates that rival the best of natural gas and oil boilers but are cheaper to operate.

The 80-year-old Sandri Companies just got a little greener. Sandri has just expanded its renewable energy division, by purchasing a commercial pellet boiler business.  The local, family-owned company headquartered on Chapman Street has teamed up with New England Wood Pellets LLC of New Hampshire and New York to acquire a $3.2 million grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and ended up buying a subsidiary of the company,

New England Wood Pellet LLC (NEWP) and The Sandri Companies today announced a formal strategic partnership between the two companies, as well as the acquisition by Sandri of NEWP’s commercial pellet boiler business, Propell Energy.  With manufacturing plants in New Hampshire and New York, NEWP is the largest manufacturer and distributor of wood pellet fuel in the northeastern United States. Sandri is a family-owned and operated fuel distributor headquartered in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

GCC, fire station among recipients of new systems

"High performance" buildings will deliver dramatic savings, create jobs, and demonstrate replicable solutions to common energy challenges

GREENFIELD, MA – The Greenfield Business Association (GBA) and The Sandri Companies have joined the Greenfield 10% Challenge