Aluminum firm tries to foil market

Crews at Mullet's Aluminum Products in Sarasota are building bridges to new revenues.

Real bridges, that is, not a symbolic attempt to overcome the recession. The bridge work is fabrication and installation of aluminum pedestrian bridges, like one it recently completed at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, right. It's a big step for the well-established vinyl siding and window installation firm that construction entrepreneur and carpenter Butch Mullet founded in 1978.

“When people think of Mullet's, they think of screen enclosures or gutters,” says Marketing Director Nate Yoder. “So people are kind of blown away with our elaborate (bridge) systems.”