Buddy Pruitt
Fort Smith’s Pruitt Tool & Supply Co. Going Global
From modest beginnings, Pruitt Tool now has nine offices across the United States and has business interests overseas in countries such as Russia and Turkey. The company rents its patented equipment, the Pruitt rotating control device, to oil rigs drilling for oil and gas. read more >
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