COLUMBUS, Ind. June 4, 2026 — Tallman Equipment Company, a trusted supplier of tools, equipment, services, and support for the electric utility and linework industries, announced a new partnership with Platte River Equity, a Denver-based private equity firm focused on investing in established industrial businesses. The partnership marks an important next step in Tallman’s continued growth, while preserving the company’s long-standing commitment to the people, products, and service standards that customers have relied on for decades.

“I’m called to teach,” Tallman Equipment trainer Doug Kirk said as he opened up his most recent class here at our Columbus, IN headquarters. “I used to think I was supposed to teach high school. I went to college for it, but when I got into my first student teaching...

Every connection a lineman makes carries risk. When something goes wrong, personal protective grounds are what stand between a close call and a serious injury. They create a controlled path for fault current, pulling dangerous energy away from the worker and safely...

Temporary protective grounds and jumper sets from Tallman Equipment are built to the highest standards. The design and construction are meant to be durable enough to hold up to repeated use and a long service-life. But power linemen are well aware that the realities...

In a world full of acronyms and initialisms like OSHA, ASTM, IEEE, and ANSI, it’s easy to get confused about what they all mean and when they matter. Take ASTM for example. At Tallman Equipment, we say we are an ASTM member, and we build our temporary protective...

A massive winter storm is set to spread heavy snow and ice across more than two dozen states, threatening travel, power outages and dangerous cold from the South and Plains to the Northeast this weekend. A high-impact winter storm will spread snow and ice across more...

At first blush, the ground sets and jumper sets used in the electrical utility industry appear nearly identical. They are pieces of insulated wire with a clamp on each end, and functionally, they both accomplish related goals as both grounds and jumpers create a...

The frost on my windshield this morning is a cruel reminder that the cold months are here, and if you are or have ever been a member of a line crew, worked as a linemen or known a linemen or thought about a linemen or used electricity, it is time to think about winter...

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. and an affiliate expect to spend about $7 billion on 2.6 GW of gas, 400 MW of storage and transmission — to be paid for by Amazon. A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build...

The fields around Tallman Equipment headquarters have gone from green to golden and now to bare. The harvesters have come and gone. The farmers around us are finishing up with the last of their crops, and the silos and grain bins are bursting at the seams. The dust is...