MANNY Awards

Celebrating

MANUFACTURING 2013 CINCY MANNY AWARDS

Excellence

Pictured above, left to right: Sal Pellingra, Ampac; Paul Hayes, Able Tool; Mike Schmitt, Metalworking Group; Cheryl Koopman, Richards Industries; Garry Lanham, Eurostampa; Tim Lautermilch, Eagle Specialty; Jay Taylor, Emery Oleochemicals; Sara Pressler, Able Tool.

Pictured opposite page, left to right: Johnny Stone, Salamander Sinkers; Eric Wolff, L’Oreal; Jerry Koch, Intelligrated; Dan Houchin, Star Manufacturing; Mario Listo, Star Manufacturing; Scott Aston, Contech; Eileen Walz, L’Oreal; Tom Flottman, Flottman Co. 88

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The 2013 Winners BEST PLACE TO WORK

NEW JOB CREATION

BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT/INNOVATION

Flottman Company Metalworking Group Richards Industries

Able Tool Corp.

Emery Oleochemicals LLC LSI Industries Inc.

Eagle Specialty Vehicles LLC Eurostampa North America L’Oreal USA, Inc.

TOP GROWTH

Bonfiglioli USA Intelligrated Inc. Star Manufacturing

Ampac Holdings, LLC Contech Engineered Solutions LLC Salamander Sinkers LLC

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FLOTTMAN COMPANY

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s a family business, Flottman Company makes its employees feel that they are part of the family.

Employees are on a first name basis with the graphic communications firm’s thirdgeneration owners: CEO Tom Flottman, President Sue Flottman Steller and CFO Peter Flottman. Managers and employees share the same community lunchroom and participate in events such as the company picnic and golf outing, and the company’s annual holiday donation program, recognized as one of the longest running such efforts in the industry. Last year, more than 75 percent of the company’s 49 employees raised more than $3,000 in holiday donations.

Employee benefits include annual profit sharing and bonuses, free health club membership, company-financed uniforms, and tuition reimbursement.

Flottman’s employees have reciprocated with longevity. More than half of them have 10 or more years of service. It also paid off in 92 percent on-time delivery, an all-time high, and a 98 percent customer satisfaction score.

“Our employees take their jobs personally and perform their jobs as if they are part of the family. Their jobs are really THEIR jobs, and they take pride in their performance,” says Ed McMaster, marketing and communications director.

Tom Flottman CEO LOCATION: Crestview Hills, Ky. PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1921 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 49 CEO/PRESIDENT: Tom Flottman WEB ADDRESS: Flottmanco.com MANUFACTURES: Graphic communications and performs strategic marketing and design

METALWORKING GROUP

RICHARDS INDUSTRIES

2012 Manny winner for Job Creation, the Metalworking Group combines world-class manufacturing capabilities with top-of-the-line employee support Mike Schmitt and benefits.

President The company’s value statement lists safety as its highest priority. For example, the company has a full-time safety manager who, assisted by a 10-member employee committee, makes sure safety is job No. 1 on the shop floor. An in-house first-responder team of 12 employees is trained in first aid and CPR. Employees are empowered to make changes that improve operations. For instance, the Standard Winning Assignment Team (SWAT) works to solve problems with productivity or space.

The best workers also are engaged on and off the job. There are rewards for employee suggestions and an employee of the month is selected by co-workers and becomes eligible for quarterly prizes. Fellowship is encouraged with periodic potluck lunches. Last year all the recipes from the event were compiled in a cookbook given to employees. An LOCATION:. Colerain Township and Hamilton employee wellness PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private program includes FOUNDED: 1989 smoking cessation, NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 155 healthy eating and CEO/PRESIDENT: Mike Schmitt, president weight-loss initiaWEB ADDRESS: metalworkinggroup.com tives. There’s also a MANUFACTURES: Metal machining, fabrication bonus program for and assembly regular attendance.

his is the fifth time in six years Richards Industries has won a “Best Place to Work” Manny. It starts with the obvious benefits such as insurance, Cheryl Koopman paid time off and retirement plans VP Human Resources on par with larger companies. The company has never laid off a worker or shortened hours due to business conditions. Beyond that, the HR department might help by ordering flowers for a spouse, help with a child’s resume or find a wedding venue.

The company says it is committed to creating the best working environment for employees. There’s an annual recognition dinner for employees and their spouses. Employees regularly have “Coffee with Bruce,” where CEO Bruce Broxterman meets to discuss ideas that have led to changes such as wellness initiatives and new hires. The benefits are not all incoming: employees support community events such as Hyde Park Blast and Ault Park fireworks. Employees have even adopted a strip of Wasson Road near the plant, and keep it clean of trash and debris.

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LOCATION: Hyde Park PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1961 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 140 CEO/PRESIDENT: Bruce Broxterman WEB ADDRESS: richardsind.com MANUFACTURES: Regulators and control valves

BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH

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ABLE TOOL CORP.

EMERY OLEOCHEMICALS LOCATION: St. Bernard PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 2005 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 264 GENERAL MANAGER: Jay Taylor WEB ADDRESS: emeryoleo.com MANUFACTURES: Chemicals derived from plant and animal fats

Paul Hayes President

Jay Taylor General Manager for America and Global Head of Operations

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mery turned an environmental headache along the Mill Creek into an environmental showpiece. In what the Ohio EPA believes is an industrial first, the company and its neighbor BASF have constructed a series of bioswales – natural culverts with native vegetation – to collect and break down pollutants in storm water runoff into the Mill Creek.

Calling it “the coolest thing you’ve ever seen,” Dave Couchot, director of manufacturing, says the $300,000 project “is one of those things you can look back on and be proud of.”

Based on average rainfall, more than 2 million gallons of surface water runoff is now draining naturally into the ground water through the bioswales. The natural grasses and wildflowers used to create the bioswales have attracted butterflies and birds resulting in creation of a registered Monarch Butterfly Way Station and wildlife habitat.

This is the second straight year the global supplier of animal and plant oils has claimed a Manny for Biggest Breakthrough. A year ago, the company, which traces its roots to Thomas Emery’s candle shop in 1840, completed a four-year effort to convert its steam-powered operations from coal to natural gas, greatly reducing its carbon footprint.

LOCATION: Lockland PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1984 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 22 CEO/PRESIDENT: Paul Hayes WEB ADDRESS: abletool.com MANUFACTURES: Prototype equipment and spare parts

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ble Tool reinvented itself in 2012 by embracing better employee communication, a new image and improved efficiency. The result was a 5.2 percent increase in gross profit last year, and the metalworking job shop is on track for higher growth this year.

“We have happier employees, a cleaner shop, improved productivity, higher sales and higher profits,” says Paul Hayes, president of the women-owned company. n innovator in commercial outdoor lighting for nearly 40 years, LSI introduced a Before the change, he says, game-changing LED fixture with a new optical design that permits fewer fixtures, Able’s culture, like a lot of small lower energy and installation costs and a faster payback for customers. companies, was one of reaction Historically, light fixtures are designed with a central light source including a lamp, reflecinstead of action. tor and lens in the middle of the fixture. That limited the light to the area below the fixture.

In January 2012, the company After a year and a half of development, LSI’s patented Sterling XSB LED area light uses embarked on a 10-month continufour precisely angled, side-mounted optical LED units that can be directed at the area to ous improvement effort through be lighted. LSI says the Sterling XSB’s light distribution is 70 percent better than current TechSolve in Bond Hill. The LEDs, requiring fewer fixtures and allowing wider spacing. program engaged employees in One of the challenges LSI had to overcome was to deliver a large amount of light across database decisions that improved a wide area using as little energy as possible. The communication, invested in new company’s solution was to develop angled optical LOCATION: Blue Ash technology and reorganized and units protected by clear tempered optical-grade PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Public streamlined operations. Leadglass lens sealed to a die-cast aluminum assembly.

FOUNDED: 1976 ership went to the plant f loor LSI said it can produce all the components for the NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 575 seeking employee ideas, and a new LED fixture at its 14 U.S. plants.

CEO/PRESIDENT: Robert J. Ready metric-driven bonus system now Chairman Robert J. Ready recently told invesWEB ADDRESS: lsi-industries.com rewards employees for efficiency, tors the new LED technology is a “substantial MANUFACTURES: Commercial lighting & quality and on-time delivery. opportunity to expand our reach further into the graphics products commercial and industrial lighting market.”

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EAGLE SPECIALTY VEHICLES

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hen General Mobusiness in the early 1980s, tors announced invested nearly $20 million it was ceasing to buy a year’s worth of DTS production of its DTS chaschassis inventory. To make sis in 2011, Eagle Specialty sure it had orders for all those Vehicles turned a potential chassis, Eagle promoted the disaster into a competitive reliability and styling of the advantage. The company, DTS and industry awareness which didn’t have the biggest of its discontinued manufaccomponent for its funeral ture. It redesigned its coaches Tim Lautermilch President coaches for 18 months until with an updated styling. The the new Cadillac XTS chasresult: Eagle quickly filled orsis became available this year, could have der slots for vehicles with the DTS chassis been forced out of business. and grew its market share by more than Instead, the company that was spun 50 percent. off from Hess & Eisenhardt’s armored car It allowed the company, a Manny winner

EUROSTAMPA NORTH AMERICA

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amily-owned Eurostampa, based in Italy, has found a North American home in Roselawn. The producer of consumer goods labels for everything Gian Franco Cillario from chocolates to wine has more President than doubled employment to 109 since establishing operations here in LOCATION: Roselawn 2007 to be closer to PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private its North American FOUNDED: 1966 customers.

NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 109 It i n it i a l l y acPRESIDENT: Gian Franco Cillario quired PepperPrint, a WEB ADDRESS: eurostampa.com sheet-fed printer that MANUFACTURES: Consumer goods label printer supplied Jim Beam accounts. Since then it has built a new 75,000-square-foot headquarters and printing plant on Seymour Avenue near its old operation. Last year it added 13 jobs. The company also has invested more than $6 million in new equipment and workforce training and expects total employment will grow to 128 next year.

The new location, which encompasses almost seven acres, offers the company future opportunities for expansion by an additional 40,000 to 50,000 square feet.

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LOCATION: Amelia PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1982 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 130 CEO/PRESIDENT: Tim Lautermilch WEB ADDRESS: eaglecoachcompany.com MANUFACTURES: funeral coaches and limousines for New Job Creation in 2011, to not only survive the transition to the XTS chassis, but to more than double its workforce to 130 people. With its new employee base on board, Eagle is developing new products to help it grow this year.

L’OREAL USA

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lobal cosmetics maker L’Oréal has made Florence the manufacturing center of excellence for its popular hair care brands. In November t he company, a subsidiar y of Paris-based L’Oreal, announced Eric Wolff a $42 million expansion that will Plant Manager add 200 jobs over three years and increase t he LOCATION: Florence 560,000-square-foot PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Public pla nt by a not her FOUNDED: 1909 110,000 square feet.

NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 280 The plant expansion PLANT MANAGER: Eric Wolff a lso w ill include WEB ADDRESS: loreal.com renovations to the MANUFACTURES: Cosmetics and beauty existing facility and care products the purchase of new equipment.

Located on New Buffington Road, the plant currently produces 165 million units of Garnier Fructis, L’Oréal Paris and SoftSheen-Carson shampoo, conditioner and styling products each year.

“L’Oréal’s business is growing globally and the expansion will enable us to meet increased consumer demand for the popular hair care brands we are producing in Kentucky,” plant manager Eric Wolff says.

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AMPAC HOLDINGS

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Sal Pellingra Director/Innovation LOCATION: Springdale PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1966 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 200 GENERAL MANAGER: John Q. Baumann WEB ADDRESS: ampaconline.com MANUFACTURES: Creative packaging solutions

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ver the last 15 years Ampac has transformed itself from a producer of simple paper and plastic shopping bags into a leading global supplier of innovative packaging solutions.

Its latest innovation, BioFlex Pack, is a biodegradable laminate for pre-made pouches and roll stock to package cereals, grains, tea and coffee, powders and tablets. Developed

by Ampac’s Swiss product development group, BioFlex is unique in that both the adhesive and inks used are biodegradable: 90 percent of the material can be composted within 70 days of disposal.

The company recently won two Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) awards for its Savvy Green No. 2 Pouch, and Campbell’s Skillet Sauces pouch. The No. 2 Pouch, the first recyclable pouch, is manufactured using a proprietary coextruded HPDE blend, allowing it to be recycled with other HDPE products.

Campbell’s Skillet Sauces packaging uses a new stand-up pouch created by Ampac for a product traditionally packaged in glass jars or aluminum cans. The Campbell’s Skillet Sauces pouch has a non-rocking bottom that permits enhanced shelf appeal.

Ampac’s innovations extend beyond products to the development process itself.

Its IDEA process is a collaborative effort that brings customers and Ampac engineers together to reduce a six-to-eight month new product development process to two days.

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ontech has been building pre-cast bridges for decades, but it believes it has a home run with its newest CON/SPAN O Series pre-cast bridge coupled with its Express Foundation process.

The O-series (O for Optimal) with Express FoundaScott Aston tions can produce a bridge equal to earlier pre-cast VP Bridge Structures models with dramatically less cost, material and in a fraction of the time.

LOCATION: West Chester Scott Aston, Contech’s vice president PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private for bridge structures, says the O-Series’ FOUNDED: 1941 geometric shape requires up to 30 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 250 percent less steel and concrete. That CEO: Ronald C. Keating translates into an equivalent amount WEB ADDRESS: conteches.com of savings. In addition, the Express MANUFACTURES: Civil engineering solutions Foundations system blends the speed for bridge, drainage, erosion control, storm of pre-cast with the economy of cast-inwater, road and retaining wall markets place concrete foundations resulting in installations in a matter of days rather than weeks.

The O-series design came out of an accelerated brainstorming effort Contech undertook with Cincinnati’s Eureka Ranch and the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership in 2011. The O-series was introduced just seven months later.

With orders already in hand, Contech believes the O-Series will be a significant player in the $500 million market for bridge spans of up to 65 feet.

SALAMANDER SINKERS

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lifelong fisherman, Johnny Stone figured there must be a better way.

On frequent fishing trips to the Maumee River near Toledo, the retired chemist says he would often lose the lead sinker on his line when it would snag on the river’s rocky bottom.

“I’d lose two dozen on a trip,” he says. He started tinkering in his garage in 2008 with a soft plastic tube Johnny Stone CEO encasing a steel cable to replace the lead sinker used to submerge the bait. He found the plastic tube didn’t snag. “I was shocked LOCATION: Evendale at how good it worked,” he says.

PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private He applied for a patent and began FOUNDED: 2008 marketing his Salamander Sinkers NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 2 full-time online and to bait and tackle shops.

CEO: Johnny Stone He got help from TechSolve’s ManuWEB ADDRESS: salamandersinkers.com facturing Technolog y Small BusiMANUFACTURES: Fishing tackle ness Development Center in putting together a marketing plan. Besides being snag resistant and adjustable for fishing depth, Salamander Sinkers are lead free. Some states have banned the use of lead sinkers because of concerns over lead poisoning.

Working out of his home, he has two people working for him now assembling the sinkers and he has invested in a blister-pack machine to package the sinkers; the smaller size sells for about $1 each. Last year, sales increased 50 percent and he’s redesigning his website and working with a distributor to expand availability at bait and tackle shops in Washington, Oregon, Michigan and northern Ohio.

TOP GROWTH

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BONFIGLIOLI USA

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rowth is in gear at to add employees despite a B on f i g l iol i US A , decline in revenues in 2009 the Northern Kendue to the recession. Since tucky headquarters of the t hen, revenue g row t h Bonfiglioli Group, an Italian has averaged 34 percent manufacturer of gear motors, through a combination of drives and gear boxes for strategic and operational off-road equipment and the efforts to boost sales while renewable energy markets. reducing costs, says Greg Over the last two years, Schulte, president of the Greg Schulte Bonfiglioli has increased Hebron operation.

President revenues by more than $43 “Our business model million to $112 million in 2012. Over the and the diversity of the industries we serve, last five years, the two-time Tristate Suc- along with entrance into some key markets cess Award winner also has nearly doubled like renewable energy, have helped our employment to 81. revenues to grow,” he says.

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INTELLIGRATED INC.

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he growth formula is fa i rly si mple at Mason-based Intelligrated Inc. The leading supplier of automated material handling systems in North A mer ica focuses “on its customers and lets its worldclass people serve them,” says Jerry Koch, director of Jerry Koch corporate marketing.

Marketing Director Koch says Intelligrated’s mission is delivering solutions that help its logistics and distribution customers accelerate the speed and efficiency of their operations.

Intelligrated has doubled its revenue since 2009 to a projected $600 million this year through a combination of acquisitions and internal growth.

The company, launched by CEO Chris Cole and President Jim McCarthy with just a handful of employees days after Sept. 11, 2001, employs 2,100 across North America.

Within the last year, it has opened a 122,000 square-foot expansion of its Mason headquarters and expanded its software capabilities with two acquisitions.

LOCATION: Mason PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 2001 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 800 CEO: Chris Cole WEB ADDRESS: intelligrated.com MANUFACTURES: Automated material handling equipment

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LOCATION: Hebron PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 1986 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 81 PRESIDENT: Greg Schulte WEB ADDRESS: bonfiglioliusa.com MANUFACTURES: Gear motors, drives and gear boxes for industrial, off-road and energy markets

example, Bonfiglioli recently supplied its new power conversion systems for a 170-megawatt solar energy project in California that will supply power to San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

STAR MANUFACTURING LOCATION: West Chester PRIVATE OR PUBLIC: Private FOUNDED: 2009 NO. OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES: 65 CEO/PRESIDENT: Mario Listo WEB ADDRESS: starmanufacture.com MANUFACTURES: Electric control panels, custom cables and service

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rowth is becoming a habit President/Owner at Star Manufacturing, a leading supplier of industrial control panels, cables and services.

A Manny winner for the third consecutive year, Star has consistently grown revenues, customers, employees and the size of its West Chester facility each year after its humble beginnings in the basement of CEO Mario Listo’s home in 2009.

Now employing 65, Star has revenues of $15 million and hopes to move from 30,000 square-feet of leased space on PrincetonGlendale Road into its own freestanding building nearby soon.

Listo, who started the business in the midst of the recession by borrowing against his 401(k), says flexibility has been key to growth. “As a small company, we listen to customers’ needs and respond to that.”

No longer just a manufacturer of control panels, Star has expanded into engineering and design for customers, handing field service and cable distribution.

Another key has been empowering employees to grow, says Dale Houchin, sales manager. “Just because someone started on the shop floor, doesn’t mean they can’t be a good salesman,” he says. It’s resulted in zero employee turnover, Listo says.

2013 CINCY MANNY AWARDS

Leasure Recognized For Leadership

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eorge L. Leasure, chairman and founder of GMi Companies, is the recipient of the inaugural MANNY Hall of Fame Leadership Award.

Leasure, 81, founded Ghent Manufacturing in Lebanon, an innovator in producing dry-erase boards and other visual communications products. The company was named to the MANNY Hall of Fame in 2010.

Leasure, a Cleveland native, is being honored for his leadership skills, contribution to Tristate manufacturing and his inspiration to others.

The family-owned business, which markets through a network of distributors, doesn’t disclose revenues, but the company, which changed its name to GMi in 2011 after several acquisitions, employs 150 and has sales north of $25 million.

Leasure earned a degree in sociology from Miami University in 1954 and later a master’s degree from Case-Western Reserve in hopes of becoming a social worker.

But after a stint in the Army, Leasure quickly decided it wasn’t the right field for him.

“To advance you’d have to move into administration and move to someplace like New York or Chicago and I didn’t want to live in those places,” he says today.

So he embarked on a business career, working for a maker of chalkboards and

other school equipment. In 1976 he started Ghent Manufacturing to manufacture chalkboards, whiteboards, bullet in boards and other equipment for schools and offices.

Starting with six employees, Ghent grew quickly. “Within six months we were up to 30 employees,” Leasure says. In five years, Ghent was on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

Although many competitors were moving production out of the country, Ghent continued to innovate with new products and maintain its production in Lebanon, expanding into is current 100,000-squarefoot plant in 1993.

The company has also grown its product line through acquisitions. It acquired Waddell display cases of Greenfield, Ohio, in 1986; Vivid Board of Louisville in 2006; and WoodWare, a Pennsylvania-maker of technology support furniture in 2010.

Typically unassuming, Leasure attributes much of the company’s success to employees.

“Half our employees have been with us for 10 years or more,” says Leasure, who has fostered a family atmosphere among the company’s workers from the beginning.

“Our purpose is to serve our customers, our employees and our community. That’s part of our culture.”

George L. Leasure The Lebanon Chamber of Commerce recognized Leasure as Citizen of the Year in 2010. He’s a board member of LCNB Corp., parent of Lebanon Citizens National Bank, past chairman of the Ralph J. Stolle Countryside YMCA and has served on the boards of numerous other community organizations.

Last year his son, Mark, succeeded Leasure as CEO, but he has no plans to retire. “I plan to leave here on a stretcher,” he says. ■

Honoring the previous winners of the MANNY Awards since 2007 Company AK Steel Alimet-Global Scrap Management Amano Cincinnati American Fan American Micro Products Amylin Pharmaceuticals BAE Systems Batesville Casket Co. Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. B.I.C. Precision Machine Co., Inc. Brighton Tru-Edge Heads Inc. Champion Window CKS Solution Inc.

Top Local Executive James Wainscott Chris Hamm Kash Gokli Greg Card Pierre A. Paroz Bob MacKay Tony Russell Ken A. Camp Matthew J. Shattock Victor Burkhart Mark Lang Donald Jones/Dennis Manes James Braun

City West Chester Milford Loveland Fairfield Batavia West Chester Fairfield Batesville Cincinnati Blanchester Sharonville Sharonville Batavia

Clippard Instrument Laboratory Inc.

William L. Clippard III

Colerain Township

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Website www.aksteel.com www.globalscrap.net www.amano.com www.americanfan.com www.american-micro.com www.amylin.com www.baesystems.com www.batesville.com www.beamglobal.com www.bicprecisionmachine.com www.brightontruedge.com www.championwindow.com www.ckssolution.com www.clippard.com

Phone (859) 442-3382 x145

(513) 346-4600 (513) 947-1277

Winning Year(s) 2008 2012 2009 & 2011 2011 2007 2012 2009 2008 2007 2012 2012 2009 2009

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2009

(513) 697-9000 (513) 874-2400 (800) 479-2193 (513) 881-9800 (812) 934-7500 (513) 948-4704

HALL OF FAME Cold Jet LLC Comfort Care Foods CONTECH Construction Products

Eugene Cooke Millard Long Ronald C. Keating

Coolant Control Inc.

Jorge Costa

D & E Machine Eagle Coach Company

OH KY OH

www.coldjet.com www.comfort-care-products.com www.contech-cpi.com

(513) 831-3211 (859) 586-1535 (800) 338-1122

2008 2009 2010

OH

www.coolantcontrol.com

(513) 471-8770

2009

Kent Coomer Tim Lautermilch

Loveland Burlington West Chester Ivorydale/ St. Bernard Lebanon Amelia

OH OH

www.demachine.com www.eaglecoachcompany.com

(513) 932-2184 (513) 797-4100

Enerfab Inc.

Wendell R. Bell

Winton Place

OH

www.enerfab.com

(513) 641-0500

Emerson Industrial Automation Emery Oleochemicals LLC Fecon Inc.

Florence St. Bernard Lebanon

KY OH OH

www.emerson-ept.com www.emeryoleo.com www.fecon.com

(513) 696-4430

Sharonville

OH

www.ford.com

(800) 392-3673

2009

Formica Corporation Freeman Schwabe Machinery Gallatin Steel Company General Data Co. General Tool Company Ghent Manufacturing Glasshand Gold Medal Products Co. Graeter’s Manufacturing Greg G. Wright & Sons

Anthony Pajk Jay Taylor John Heekin William Clay Ford Jr., Alan Mulally Mark Adamson Greg DeFisher Tobin Pospisil Peter M. Wenzel William J. Kramer Jr. George Leasure Steve Brauch Dan Kroeger Richard Graeter Carl Fries

2011 2011 2008, 2009 & 2010 2012 2012 2008

Evendale Batavia Ghent Cincinnati Cincinnati Lebanon Woodlawn Evendale Cincinnati Cincinnati

OH OH KY OH OH OH OH OH OH OH

www.formica.com www.freemanschwabe.com www.gallatinsteel.com www.general-data.com www.gentool.com www.ghent.com www.theglasshand.com www.gmpopcorn.com www.graeters.com www.gregwrightandsons.com

(513) 786-3400 (513) 947-2888 (859) 567-3100 (513) 752-7978 x2219 (513) 733-5500 (513) 932-3445 (513) 353-1747 (513) 769-7676 (513) 721-3323 (513) 721-3310

2011 2009 2007 & 2008 2007 2009 2010 2011 2011 2010 2008

Hamilton Caster & Mfg. Co.

Dave Lippert

Hamilton

OH

www.hamiltoncaster.com

(513) 863-3300

2007

Hillenbrand Industries

Batesville

IN

www.hillenbrand.com

(812) 934-8692

2007

Cincinnati

OH

www.hillmangroup.com

(800) 800-4900

2010

Innovative Labeling Solutions Intelligrated Inc. It’s A Wrap Ideas LLC Kaivac, Inc. Lafarge North America Inc. LSI Industries MAG Makino Mazak Melink Corporation Meridian Bioscience Inc. Mesa Industries, Inc. The Metalworking Group Micropyretics Heaters International, Inc. Middletown Tube Works Inc. Mil Air MillerCoors Brewery Multi-Color Corp.

Nilpeter USA Nolte Precise Manufacturing Odom Industries Pro Mach, Inc. Ransohoff-Cleaning Technologies Group LLC

Peter H. Soderberg Richard Hillman, Max Hillman, Jr. Jay Dollries Chris Cole Robin Acree, Wendy Robbins Robert Robinson Bruno Lafont Bob Ready, Scott Ready Mo Meidar Don Lane Brian Papke Steve Melink Jack Kraeutler Terry Segerberg Mike Schmitt Anu Vissa Ralph H. Phillips Bruce J. Burton Jon Hussey Nigel Vinecombe Andy Colletta Doug Coster Tim Odom Mark Anderson Barney Bosse

Hamilton Cincinnati Erlanger Hamilton Silver Grove Blue Ash Hebron Mason Florence Milford Newtown Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Middletown Milford Trenton Sharonville Sycamore Township Cincinnati Milford Loveland West Chester

OH OH KY OH KY OH KY OH KY OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH

www.ilslabels.com www.intelligrated.com www.itsawrapideas.com www.kaivac.com www.lafarge.com www.lsi-industries.co www.mag-ias.com www.makino.com www.mazakusa.com www.melinkcorp.com www.meridianbioscience.com www.mesa-intl.com www.metalworkinggroup.com www.mhi-inc.com www.middletowntube.com www.milairinc.com www.millercoors.com www.multicolorcorp.com www.nilpeter.com www.nolteprecise.com www.odomindustries.com www.promachinc.com www.ctgclean.com/ransohoff

(513) 860-2457 (513) 701-7300 (859) 331-6438 (513) 477-9001 (859) 442-3382 (513) 793-3200 (859) 534-4600

Richards Industries

Bruce Broxterman

Hyde Park/Oakley

OH

www.richardsind.com

Rite Track Rotek Inc. Rumpke Recycling Servatii Star Manufacturing Storopack Inc. StratusGroup, Inc. Sweco, a business unit of M-I LLC TSS Technologies Victory Industrial Products ZF Steering Systems

Timothy Hayden Mike Drobik William Rumpke, Sr. Gary Gottenbusch Mario Listo John Mellott Robert Curran Brenda Beers Brent Nichols Dale Freeman Pierre Abboud

West Chester Florence Cincinnati Cincinnati West Chester Cincinnati West Chester Florence Cincinnati Batavia Florence

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2013 CINCY MANNY AWARDS 2013 CINCY

MANNY WINNERS HONORED Manufacturers from across the Tristate will be honored at the seventh annual MANNY Awards presented by Cincy Magazine for achievements in five categories: Best Place to Work; Biggest Breakthrough; New Job Creation; New Product Development and Innovation, and Top Growth.

The 15 winners will be celebrated at a dinner June 4 at the Sharonville Convention Center.

Cocktails and networking begin at 5:45 p.m. with the dinner and presentation following at 6:45 p.m.

Keynote speaker is Greg Morris, leader of strategy and business development for additive manufacturing technologies at GE Aviation in Evendale. Morris has been involved in additive manufacturing since 1994 when he, his brother

EVENT EMCEE To m M c K e e , a reporter, producer and a ssignment editor at WCPOT V (Channel 9) for more than 30 ye a r s , re ce n t l y received a Walter Cronkite Award Tom McKee for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. He won a local broadcast individual achievement award for recording questions from Ohio voters and presenting them to candidates during interviews for the 2012 election.

McKee, who covers government, politics, business and education, graduated from Ohio University in 1974, and joined Channel 9 as a reporter for the Al Schottelkotte News.

From 1978 to 1983 he was the producer for Schottelkotte’s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, and was producer when WCPO launched Newswatch in 1983. He left TV news in 1984 and spent five years in private video production, returning to the station in 1989 as assignment manager.

In 2001, he switched back to daily reporting.

McKee’s wife Claudia is president and owner of MMG Corporate Communication, a B2B multimedia firm in Loveland. They live in Kenwood, and have three grown sons and six grandchildren who all live in Greater Cincinnati.

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and a friend founded Morris Technologies, an early supplier of rapid prototyping services. GE acquired Morris Technologies and its sister company, Rapid Quality Manufacturing, last year to expand its additive manufacturing capabilities.

New this year is the MANNY Hall of Fame Leadership Award. The first recipient is George L. Leasure, founder and chairman of GMi Companies in Lebanon, who will be honored for his contribution to manufacturing in the Tristate, his

leadership and inspiration to others.

For reservations call (513) 297-6215, email jtoon@cincymagazine.com

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reg Morris was an early pioneer in embracing the idea of additive manufacturing, a new technology that promises to transform how things are made.

He is a strategy and business development leader for additive technologies at GE Aviation, also working with other GE businesses to promote and integrate additive manufacturing into other products and processes.

Sometimes called 3-D printing, additive manufacturing is the process of making three-dimensional Greg Morris solid objects by adding material in layers rather than the cutting it away. Advocates say it increases the ability to make more complex parts by using less material with a lower cost.

Morris, who has written extensively and presented at various trade events on the topic, got involved in additive manufacturing in 1994 when he, his brother Wendell Morris and friend Bill Noack launched Morris Technologies to provide engineering and design services using rapid prototyping technology. They continued to expand that business and a sister company, Rapid Quality Manufacturing, and in 2003 introduced the first laser metal sintering technology to the North American market.

As interest in the technology has grown, particularly in aerospace, energy and medical equipment markets, so did the business. Morris Technologies and Rapid Quality Manufacturing had revenues of about $20 million and employed 150 when GE Aviation acquired them last November to expand its additive manufacturing capabilities for its next-generation jet engines.

A graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., Morris started his career working for his family’s steel distribution business, E.K. Morris in Woodlawn, before it was sold. Morris was a member of the Madeira-Indian Hill volunteer fire department for more than 20 years and was part of the group that formed the Hamilton County Urban Search and Rescue Team. He spent eight days at Ground Zero in New York City after 9/11.

He and his wife have two daughters, age 8 and 6.

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ood, Herron & Evans, LLP helps clients in the acquisition, development, protection, licensing, defense and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights. The firm has represented businesses, trade associations, universities, foundations and individuals since 1868.

Wood, Herron & Evans anticipates legal issues that might threaten or compromise IP assets, and handles negotiation and litigation effectively and vigorously when

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHTS clients’ rights require enforcement. Experienced attorneys and a trained professional support staff understand the value of IP assets: patents, trademarks and copyrights.

The firm focuses on in-depth involvement with clients, using its combined experience to address complex IP issues with flexible and dynamic solutions. Its approach fits and enhances business objectives, while

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echSolve enables Ohio manufacturers to thrive in a highly competitive global marketplace by offering business solutions and resources that enhance growth, improve productivity and expand capacity.

For more than 25 years, TechSolve has helped organizations implement process improvement and advanced machining solutions that create measurable top-line and bottom-line results. Its

in-depth business and engineering experience across a wide range of industries allows the company’s experts to identify and quickly prioritize the best improvement and growth opportunities for clients.

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he Cincinnati office of Grant Thornton LLP is an established leader in providing a broad range of accounting and consulting services such as audit, tax, valuation and IT advisory to industry segments that include manufacturing, retail, distribution, food service and nonprofit organizations.

Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. The people of Grant Thornton provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients in more than 100 countries.

Grant Thornton believes that sustaining long-term growth in successful organiza-

tions means looking at many different aspects of the business simultaneously.

Financial measures, process efficiency, new ways of working and stakeholder relationships all must grow in harmony if dynamic organizations are to fully achieve their objectives. With shorter decisionmaking chains, more senior personnel involvement and empowered client service teams, Grant Thornton is able to take a wider view and operate in a coordinated way that’s as fast and agile as its clients.

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tock Yards Bank & Trust Company has built its business in the simplest and most straightforward way, according to David P. Huntsman, chairman and CEO – one account at a time, relationship by relationship.

A wholly owned subsidiary of S.Y. Bancorp, Inc., with company assets totaling $2 billion, Stock Yards has evolved from a

small bank serving the Louisville livestock industry to a nationally recognized and

simultaneously increasing the value provided to shareholders and owners.

Wood, Herron & Evans offers a seasoned and informed view of technology, identity and branding in relation to the complex laws protecting intellectual property rights in business, manufacturing, entertainment, sports, publishing, electronic media and commerce.

For more information, go to whe-law.com, or call (513) 241-2324.

TechSolve, formerly the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. (IAMS) was founded in 1982 by the City of Cincinnati, the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and large industrial firms with the objective of assisting local manufacturing companies to improve efficiency in the newly competitive world market.

For more information, go to TechSolve.org or call (513) 948-2000.

It’s what makes Grant Thornton able to deliver actionable and responsible advice. Put simply, it’s how Grant Thornton unlocks the potential for growth in dynamic organizations.

“Growth is the dominant issue facing businesses today,” says Managing Partner Robert Taylor. “Our strategic focus is helping clients achieve smart, quality growth in all aspects of their businesses. We successfully apply reason and instinct on behalf of our clients as we partner with them to meet challenges and achieve the growth they need to thrive.”

For more information contact Robert Taylor, Cincinnati Managing Partner, at (513)345-4527 or email robert.taylor@us.gt.com

trusted business known for exceptional service and financial performance.

With more than 100 years under its banking belt, it offers a full range of financial services to meet the needs of each customer.

For more information, go to syb.com or call (513) 824-6100. w w w.

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or 85 years, Gardner Business Media, Inc. has been the premier publisher for the heart of manufacturing in North America—the plants, shops and factories, and the people that make them work.

Gardner Business Media was founded in 1928 in Cincinnati with the introduction of Modern Machine Shop magazine, the premier metalworking and machine tool publication in North America. Other maga-

zines focus on topics such as automotive design and production, plastics technology, production machining, products finishing, mold making technology, high performance composites and composites technology.

From the start, Gardner Business Media

has built its niche in one area: manufacturing. They bring industrial buyers and sellers together through an integrated approach to media. By striving to use different media (including publications, websites, research or in-person events), the company allows its customers to do better.

For more information, go to gardnerweb.com or call (513) 527-8800.

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he Clermont County Office of Economic Development was established to provide assistance to companies of all sizes that wish to grow in Clermont County. The Board of County Commissioners has initiated one of the region’s most aggressive economic development programs, actively engaging in massive infrastructure improvements, shovel-ready site development, image enhancement and improved communications with the business and development community.

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eadership, service and teamwork are the values at the core of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Partnering with almost 6,000 member businesses, the Chamber aims “to grow our regional economy and community, stimulating opportunities for everyone,” while helping the city become an international premier business destination. The Chamber provides numerous services to members: program and events, benefits to improve businesses’ bottom lines, solutions to workforce challenges, government advocacy and more.

For more information, visit www.clermontcountyohio.biz.

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orthern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce The Chamber focuses its efforts on education, workforce development, international trade, leadership development and government relations at the federal, state and local level. Its dynamic business journal and networking opportunities keep members in the know, and its advocacy on behalf of its diverse membership helps bridge the gap between Northern Kentucky businesses and all levels of government.

The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, Inc., founded in 1969, is the leading business organization of Northern Kentucky. It is a nationally ranked Five-Star Chamber with more than 1,900 member companies representing more than 170,000 employees.

For more information, visit www.nkychamber.com.

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For more information, visit www.cincinnatichamber.com.

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C’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research’s mission is to be a world-class center for entrepreneurship education, research and service. Founded in 1997, the Entrepreneurship Center’s vision and mission is not only provide a state-of-the-art entrepreneurship curriculum and research base, but also for people in the many organizations that interact with small, entrepreneurial and family owned businesses on a daily basis. The center seeks collaborative efforts between students and faculty from across the university to remove barriers and create gateways to becoming an entrepreneur.

For more information, visit www.business.uc.edu/centers/entrepreneurship.html.