CeMAT Contracting Co., Inc.

CeMAT Contracting is a New Bedford general contractor that works the public-bid side of the trade — it turns up as an awarded contractor on the New Bedford Housing Authority's bid portal, and back in 2000 the local paper reported it had won the stabilization contract for the Corson Block restoration downtown. Bloomberg's company record puts its line of work in industrial buildings and warehouses. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 183947, is active in the state registry under the company's own name, and BBB grades it A+ with no complaints, though it is not accredited. How long it has been at this is genuinely unclear. BBB records the business as started on 1 January 2022 with one employee — four years — while Bloomberg dates the founding to 2002 and a New Bedford newspaper was already naming the company on a restoration contract in 2000. Those cannot all be right, and it is worth asking which entity you would be contracting with. The company's owner, Britto, is a visible figure locally: a 2019 South Coast Today piece covering an MLK-day event in Wareham has him reading to students from a news article about racism in youth hockey. What is missing is any customer account — no reviews on BBB or anywhere else the search reached. For a homeowner, that plus the commercial and public-works tilt of the visible work means this is a company to interview carefully: ask for residential references, and confirm registration 183947 yourself.