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Growing faster that a speeding bullet, able to produce enough steel to construct a tall building in a single bound. Nucor Steel is the super plant of Montgomery County. Reporting an amazing average production wage of $75,000 per year, Nucor is certainly one of the best all around employers in the state. Their technological breakthroughs have resulted in opportunities to make steel faster, more efficiently, and more environmentally friendly than ever before. Nucor Steel, in Crawfordsville, was the first thin-slab cast mill in the world.

Eighty five years in Crawfordsville and still the number one employer in Montgomery County with over 1400 employees!

RR Donnelley started operations in Crawfordsville in 1921 as the company’s first “country” plant. Founded by Richard Robert Donnelley in 1864, the company grew to be the largest printer in the United States with 25 domestic plants and international plants in Brazil, Mexico, China and Europe. In 2004 the firm merged with the Moore-Wallace Corporation.

For many years the Crawfordsville Plant has produced millions of best selling novels, reference books, school books, children’s books and Bibles.

Acuity Brands Bright Star Award 5/23/06

We are proud to announce May 2006 recipient of the “Bright Star” award is Acuity Brands Lighting. An industry formerly known as Lithonia, the company has grown to be the second largest employer in Montgomery County with over 700 employees. Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, the company employs over 7.000 people worldwide, operates 18 plants, 13 distribution centers and some 30 sales offices around the world.

A recent book by New York Times contributor Thomas L Friedman enlightens our perspective on the global economy with the startling revelation that the world is indeed flat. While the fact that we are in a global economy could be news to some, you won’t have to break the news to the average business.
This is not a critique of the book, it is true, there is more global competition for everything. My issue is with the title, “The World is Flat” and how it might be perceived. If you assume the world is flat or level by reading the title, (and way more people see the title than actually read the book), you would assume we are in some kind of fair economic battle.
Let’s look at three major factors that would support the Christopher Columbus reality that the world is still round.