Cleaveland/Price Inc. in North Huntingdon names Heller new president

Cleaveland/Price Inc., an international supplier and manufacturer of high-voltage electrical products based in North Huntingdon, named Carl Heller as its new company president.

The transition took place Jan. 1, the company said.

Heller has been with Cleaveland/Price for 14 years serving a variety of functions, including production planning and operations manager, corporate treasurer, and, for the last year, as vice president.

“I am very passionate about American manufacturing. It is my belief that, with the right team and culture, there is not a better place to manufacture,” Heller said.

“We have a family of 300 engineers, assemblers, office professionals, and fabricators who take pride in caring for each other and for our customers. It is truly humbling to lead such a high caliber team,” Heller said.

Heller succeeds Rae Sweeney.

“Throughout my presidency, I have felt the same responsibility to this company that I feel as a mother to my children. Carl and I have worked closely together since he came to C/P, and he exemplifies the values needed in a leader at Cleaveland/Price. There is no other person I could possibly trust more to keep the C/P family safe and strong,” Sweeney said.

Chuck Cleaveland, founder and chairman of the board of directors, who established the company in his home in 1975, said he believes Heller will follow his own philosophy of placing employees first, customers second, and profit third, in order of importance.

Cleaveland said he is “confident and thankful that Carl will carry on our corporate traditions of having no unhappy customers and always treating our employees with kindness.”

Cleaveland/Price is a switch engineering and manufacturing firm with a diverse product portfolio including outdoor group operated, high-voltage switches with ratings to 500 kV, hookstick operated switches for a wide range of applications, enclosed switches including isophase disconnects, and custom-designed high voltage switches for special uses.

The company also manufactures sensors that provide real-time three-phase power monitoring and switch control motor operators to enable utilities to integrate almost any switch into a SCADA or smart grid system in overhead, underground, and padmount applications.

The firm is located at 14000 Route 993.