What Eckhardt & Johnson does

Eckhardt & Johnson is a full-service mechanical contractor headquartered in Hooksett, New Hampshire, in continuous operation since 1917. The firm specializes in four interrelated mechanical trades: plumbing, HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), process piping, and sheet metal fabrication and installation. A century of operating history positions it as an established regional provider of mechanical construction services — a private, for-profit, mid-sized contractor in the 101–250 employee band — rather than a startup or growth-stage venture.

Its core offering is project-based mechanical construction services across commercial, institutional, and light-industrial end markets typical of northern New England. The service mix combines HVAC and plumbing — the conventional core of any mechanical contractor — with process piping (targeting industrial customers with chemical, manufacturing, or process-fluid systems) and custom sheet metal work, indicating in-house fabrication capability. No proprietary technology platform, software product, or digital system is disclosed in available data; the business model is fundamentally a skilled-trades execution operation, with revenue mechanics tied to project contracts, change orders, and service work rather than recurring software or platform economics. No pricing model, customer-list, marketing channel, distribution channel, or award data is present in the input.

Available firmographic inputs do not disclose pricing structure, customer mix, segment split, awards, partnerships, M&A history, or funding activity. The company's own website returned only a verification/loading page during data collection and yielded no further operational or financial detail. The analytical picture is therefore necessarily limited to firmographic and trade-description evidence, and any forward-looking inferences are explicitly bounded by that data gap.

Name

Eckhardt & Johnson

Website

https://eckhardtjohnson.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1917

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Eckhardt & Johnson is a full-service mechanical contractor founded in 1917 in Hooksett, New Hampshire, specializing in plumbing, HVAC, process piping, and sheet metal work for commercial and industrial clients in northern New England.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hooksett

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Eckhardt & Johnson is a full-service mechanical contractor that provides plumbing, HVAC, process piping, and sheet metal fabrication and installation services. The company delivers mechanical construction and maintenance solutions to commercial and industrial customers from its base in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plumbing Services
• HVAC Services
• Process Piping
• Sheet Metal Works

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• EMCOR Group: Largest publicly traded mechanical and electrical contractor in the U.S., providing HVAC, plumbing, and process piping across commercial, industrial, and utility customers — a multi-trade benchmark for what an established mechanical contractor scales into.
• Comfort Systems USA: National HVAC and mechanical services platform operating through regional subsidiaries with plumbing and sheet metal capabilities — directly comparable in service mix and regional operating model, but at substantially larger scale.
• API Group: Publicly traded specialty construction platform with significant HVAC, mechanical, and building-services subsidiaries — comparable end-market exposure but operating as a multi-brand holding company rather than a regional mechanical contractor.

Direct peers

• Limbach Holdings: Mid-sized mechanical contractor specializing in HVAC, plumbing, and process piping across commercial and industrial end markets — the closest publicly traded size, scope, and customer-base analogue to Eckhardt & Johnson.
• J.F. Ahern: Privately held Midwest mechanical contractor offering HVAC, plumbing, process piping, and sheet metal — a closely comparable mid-market, multi-discipline private peer in a similar size band.
• S.A. Comunale: Mid-Atlantic mechanical and fire protection contractor with HVAC, plumbing, and process piping capabilities — comparable in service mix and private mid-market positioning to Eckhardt & Johnson.
• Murphy Company: Privately held U.S. mechanical contractor providing HVAC, plumbing, process piping, and sheet metal fabrication — a comparable multi-trade, mid-sized private peer.
• University Mechanical Contractors: Mid-sized mechanical contractor serving commercial, institutional, and industrial clients with HVAC, plumbing, and process piping — directly comparable in service mix and customer types to a regional multi-trade mechanical contractor.
• Kirlin Company: Mid-Atlantic mechanical contractor with HVAC, plumbing, and process piping capabilities — similar multi-trade private contractor serving institutional and industrial clients.
• Harris Mechanical: Multi-discipline mechanical contractor providing HVAC, plumbing, process piping, and sheet metal fabrication across commercial and industrial markets — directly comparable in service mix and project types.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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