3S Lift Elevates Wind Technician Safety and Efficiency

Gio Scialdone, President of 3S Lift Americas, discusses the significant strides the company has made in deploying Climb Auto Systems across North America's wind turbines. 3S Lift has installed over 18,000 Climb Auto Systems and expects to reach nearly 30,000 by the end of 2025, showing market need for making turbine climbs safer and less strenuous. Fill out our Uptime listener survey and enter to win an Uptime mug! Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: When technicians across North America are experiencing a dramatic and enjoyable shift in their daily work routine. This week we speak with Gio Scialdone president of three s, lift America. Under Geo's Leadership 3S Lift has deployed over 18,000 Climb model systems with another 7,000 on order making the daily commute safer and more efficient for technicians at nearly one third of all wind turbines in North America. Stay tuned. Welcome to Uptime Spotlight, shining Light on Wind Energy's brightest innovators. This is the progress powering tomorrow. Allen Hall: Gio, welcome to the podcast. Gio Scialdone: Thanks, Allen. Joel, thanks for having me. Allen Hall: So our last touch point with you was about in 2023 and a lot has changed since then. When we first talked, I think there were about five, 6,000 climb auto systems being used in the United States, and was there like 70 odd thousand turbines in the us? Those numbers have really dramatically changed. You wanna give everybody an update on how many cl model systems you have deployed in the us? Gio Scialdone: Yeah. It's a fun story and really one that's close to me. As I've been here seven years and after my first year 2018, we had 50 units installed. So we're talking the climb auto system, we're talking the ladder lift, retrofittable single technician ladder from the base of the tower to the A deck. Last year we completed 7,000 plus alone in 2024, and we've now got a total installed base of over 18,000, a backlog of about 7,000. So if we don't sell any more lifts this year which I hope we will, we by the end of 2025, we. We ought to be pretty close to 30,000 installed in the US and Canada. So that's North America alone. We're really proud of the team and the efforts that, the, our technicians are out there working every day. I think, Justin Patterson's, our operations director, he's got 38 teams of two techs 75, 80 technicians. Every day installing lifts on the order of 130 to 15...