By Kyle Coppola
Ring Power CAT Celebrates Grand Opening of New Leesburg Facility
Ring Power CAT officially opened its doors in Leesburg Thursday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by city officials, business leaders and members of the local community.
Leesburg Mayor Alan Reisman joined company representatives to welcome the heavy equipment supplier to the area, praising the company’s investment and potential economic impact.
(Ring Power is a massive facility. A truly impressive project that will bring 50 new jobs to the community.)
“This impressive 77,000-square-foot facility featuring an 18,000-square-foot wash bay will, once fully operational, employ 50 people in high-paying jobs, boosting our local economy,” Reisman said during the ceremony.
The new location marks a significant expansion for Ring Power, which provides sales, service, and support for Caterpillar equipment throughout Florida. The new Leesburg location is located at 2887 South Street in Leesburg.
(The new shop that technicians will work on equipment in.)
Ring Power was started in 1947 in by L.C. Ringhaver, who liked to be called “Ring.” Ringhaver left Cleveland, Ohio for St. Augustine. Today, Ring Power oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando.
“Welcome to the city of Leesburg, Ring Power, and congratulations on your beautiful new facility,” Reisman says.
Photo Credit: Sandi Moore, Leesburg Area Chamber of Commerce
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
