Worcester Business Journal

30 Worcester Business Journal | October 12, 2020 | wbjournal.com M A N U F A C T U R I N G A W A R D S WBJ Manufacturing Award recipient Over the past 10 years, John Kennedy, Manager of the Valve Technology Center, and his team have been significantly involved in the Worcester community in both his connection with secondary school education and with local workforce boards and events. He has established a pipeline of current employees from Worcester Technical High School by offering them co-op experiences during their senior year. Approximately 75% of these students have stayed on as permanent employees of Neles (and even supporting higher education degrees and certifications) thus helping the students solidify and realize their career goals and creating a talent pipeline for Neles. The Neles Corporation is a well-known global flow control solutions and service provider to the oil, gas, pulp, paper and bioproducts industries as well as chemicals, energy, refining, marine, mining and minerals processing and water and wastewater industries. Neles draws on our long heritage, experience and knowhow to feed our ambition to continu- ously develop and innovate solutions that redefine how process industries experience reliable flow control performance. Our purpose is to deliver the most all-round reliable cus- tomer experience. COLLABORATION IN MANUFACTURING Neles USA Inc. 44 Bowditch Drive Shrewsbury, MA 01545 www.neles.com/careers S omeone drinking, say, Coke or Pepsi, would never know if their beverage was made during a manufacturing process relying on equipment from Leomin- ster's Process Cooling. But the companies themselves certain- ly know – and that's why the small cool- ing equipment maker and manager has been called on to install its equipment from Fiji to Uruguay and from Mexico to Poland. Process Cooling isn't a household name, but it has lasted 57 years by adapt- ing to change, and in more recent years it has gone green. Its equipment is used to cool machinery that heats up during manufacturing processes, oen for con- sumer products, making the company's equipment itself a potentially huge user of both water and electricity. e idea is to use as little of both as possible – and to not end up using too much of one while trying to save on the other. In the past three years, it estimates it has saved its customers nearly 5,000 met- ric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and more than 10 million kilowatt hours of electricity. at's all thanks to equipment improvements and systems technology advances. "When I came to Process Cooling 25 years ago, there was no focus on energy conservation at all," said Ted Rudy, the company's president. "Not just at Process Cooling, but in the industry at all." One manufacturer in New Hampshire that Process Cooling has worked with saved 13 million gallons of water a year and $100,000 in electricity use. e Northeast has some of the highest elec- Growing green Process Cooling Systems has tripled in size and gone worldwide in its efforts, as it seeks to reduce its climate footprint BY GRANT WELKER Worcester Business Journal News Editor Process Cooling Systems opened a new Leominser facility in 2019 more than doubling its manufacturing space. PHOTO | COURTESY OF PROCESS COOLING SYSTEMS tricity rates in the country, so Process Cooling designs systems and provides equipment aimed at greater efficiency than its competitors. "at's where the green side comes into the company," said Rudy, one of three owners with Dave Doucet and Dave Dufresne. "at's why we have such a strong customer base." e trio worked together at Process Cooling before buying the company together in 2004. At that point, the com- pany had about 20 employees. Today it's 67, and the company combined two lo- cations into a new space opened in 2019, more than doubling its manufacturing space. A smaller secondary location in Greenville, S.C., helps the company deploy workers to install or check in on equipment across the country more easily. It's a long way from a company that for years relied heavily on a local plastics industry that's largely dried up. Today, largely through word-of-mouth, Process Cooling has built a customer base that's taken it nationwide and beyond. Green Manufacturing Award Process Cooling Systems Inc. Location: Leominster Industry subsector: Machinery manufacturing Employees: 67 Founded: 1963 Top executives: Managing partners Ted Rudy, president; David Doucet, operations manager; and David Dufresne, project/ installation manager Primary product: Cooling systems Making it work: "When we purchased the company from the previous owner in 2004, a lot of people told us a three-way partnership would never last. In the last 16 years, the three of us have never had a major disagreement. I believe this comes from the shared trust and respect we have for each other's individual abilities and our common goal to do what's best for our customers and employees. This has allowed us to put our egos aside and stay focused and grow the company to where we are today." W

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