Crawfordsville Electric Light & Power and Accelplus will be presented with the
Montgomery County Economic Development, “Bright Star Award” for Outstanding Corporate Citizenship on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at CEL&P/ Accelplus.
There are certain companies in our community that have a reputation for giving back and sponsoring local initiatives. These companies are stakeholders in the community and deserve to be recognized for their generosity and service to the community.
Chase bank is certainly one of those companies, which is why they were recently awarded the Montgomery County Economic Development “Bright Star Award” for Outstanding Corporate Citizenship.
Chase is Indiana’s largest financial institution and is the U.S consumer and commercial brand of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Annually, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation gives more than $100 million through grants and sponsorships to thousands of not-for-profit organizations around the world, including more than $2 million in Indiana.
Pace Dairy Foods of Indiana, located in Crawfordsville is a production facility within the Manufacturing Division of The Kroger Company. Employing approximately 300 associates, Pace Dairy of Indiana who processes and packages cheese products for distribution to retail stores will receive the Montgomery County Economic Development, “Bright Star Award” for Outstanding Corporate citizenship.
Accepting the award on behalf of Pace Dairy - the former General Manager, Pat Dilts.
Ms. Dilts, who recently accepted a Regional Retail Operations position with The Kroger Company, was a key volunteer in planning for the MCED Retention Committee. We greatly appreciate the time she donated to our community considering her very busy schedule with the Pace Dairy operation.
Crawfordsville is the absolute world leader in bottle cap production.
Not only do we have Alcoa CSI producing more plastic bottle caps than any other city in the world, but their process and equipment to produce plastic bottle caps was invented here.
Crown Cork and Seal is also located here and is the only metal cap manufacturer still remaining in the United States. These two companies have an intertwining history in Crawfordsville starting back in 1932 when Robert A. Smith founded what was then known as Hoosier Crown.
MCED recently had the privilege to present Crawford Industries with the Montgomery County Economic Development “Bright Star Award” for outstanding corporate citizenship.
Founded by Ken Crawford in 1959, the company was one of the first to manufacture plastic three ring binders with the capability to custom print on the plastic cover. Sounds simple enough until you find out that traditional inks will stick to polyethylene for about 5 minutes, after which they just fall right off. This problem became an opportunity and the birth of another Crawfordsville company, Norcote. It is safe to say that Crawford industries faced and conquered many challenges over the years as a leader in quality plastic sheet manufacture, information packaging and printing
