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BELFOR Property Restoration is an American multinational disaster recovery and property restoration company, based in Birmingham, Michigan.
]] BELFOR Property Restoration is an American multinational disaster recovery and property restoration company, based in Birmingham, Michigan.
United States of America operations
BELFOR USA Group Inc, doing business as BELFOR Property Restoration, is based in Birmingham, Michigan and provides integrated disaster recovery and property restoration services. Belfor USA Group Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BELFOR Europe GmbH. In 2007, BELFOR USA acquired Ductz International, LLC, an air duct cleaning and HVAC restoration franchise network with locations in 22 states. It acquired Hawaii Restorative Services of Honolulu and Coach's Catastrophe in 2010. BELFOR acquired BAMCOR in 2015. BELFOR opened an office in Corpus Christi, Texas, and a San Antonio office in 2016. As of that year, BELFOR globally had 7000 employees1.
Projects
In 2003, the Canadian branch of BELFOR worked to recover 100,000 books and manuscripts in the 17th-century Khan Collection at the Urdu Research Library of the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, as a result of flood damage following record rains in Hyderabad in August 2000. The company was employed in Houston after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, which caused damage to Jones Hall, the Wortham Theater Center, and the Alley Theater, with the loss of musical scores, ballet costumes and musical instruments, including three Steinway concert grand pianos. In 2004, after Hurricane Ivan, BELFOR (UK) and BELFOR (Canada) performed thermal vacuum freeze trying to restore more than 4,000 boxes of documents, half of the vital records in the Cayman Islands National Archives. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, BELFOR helped fulfill Tulane's campus-wide emergency plan, which included the "Landmark Undertaking" of the Tulane Libraries Recovery Center. Other projects included recovery from the Chile earthquake and the 2012 Super Storm Sandy. CNBC - BELFOR CEO: Sandy Clean-Up CBS MoneyWatch - How BELFOR Grew To Be #1 In Disaster Recovery Celebrating Our Economy - Sheldon Yellen has built a reputation for his unconventional management style.
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