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F a l l 2 0 1 6 • S T U F F 29 Community Engagement: Dexter-Russell and its employees are very engaged with the local community. The company sponsors various food, relief, and toy drives, Relay for Life teams, United Way campaigns, as well as numerous health related clinics. Dexter employees are also engaged with the community through coaching youth sports, involvement in civic organizations and are members of local volunteer fire departments. Environmental Awareness: Dexter-Russell, Inc. has converted from oil to natural gas and reduced energy in HVAC, automatic faucets, low flush toilets, and hand dryers, automatic LED lighting, insulating etc. The company makes fewer trips to landfill by recycling waste and byproducts, using recyclable packaging, going paperless through email, reports, archival etc. Dexter-Russell, Inc. AT A GLANCE: Address: 44 River Street, Southbridge, MA 01550 Phone: 508-765-0201 Website: www.dexter1818.com Full-time/ FTE employees: 220 Year founded: 1818 President: Alan S. Peppel, President and CEO D exter-Russell has been manufacturing quality professional cutlery and tools in America since 1818 – 198 years. The 2000+ products offered by the Southbridge, MA manufacturer encompass a broad and varied spectrum of markets and users. From foodservice, processing and agriculture, to custom fabricated, purpose-built and a host of industrial applications, Dexter-Russell continues to demonstrate why it remains America's oldest and largest manufacturer of professional cutlery. Products: Dexter has more than 2,000 different products and serves many markets. In the Food Service sector, Dexter-Russell offers an expansive array of knives, sharpeners, turners, spatulas and specialty tools for the professional kitchen, making it the universal choice of America's restaurants, hospitals, schools and mass feeders. In the Bakery industry, Dexter offers spatulas, turners and other related baker's tools. Processing encompasses a broad spectrum of industries such as Poultry, Pork, and Red Meat. Dexter-Russell has the knives, hooks, and tools needed to meet all needs of this industry. In Commercial Fishing & Fish Processing Dexter offers fillet, custom processing and special use fishing knives, as well as clam and oyster knives. Finally in the Industrial hand tool market, Dexter-Russell manufactures virtually every type of tool used in the Paint, Rubber, Shoe, Textile, Ink, Roofing and Manual arts trades. Markets/customers: The products offered by Dexter-Russell encompass a broad and varied spectrum of markets and users. From foodservice, processing and agriculture, to custom fabricated, purpose-built and a host of industrial applications. Our network of stocking dealers is spread across the United States, as well as across the globe. Careers/Job opportunities: Inclusive of manufacturing, sales, business administration, research and development, maintenance, customer service, shipping, receiving and marketing. Company Benefits: In addition to our health plan, Dexter- Russell, Inc. provides its employees with a great benefit package that includes a health reimbursement account (HRA), life insurance, tuition reimbursement, 401K, profit sharing and a generous time-off policy. Alan S. Peppel, President and CEO "They say that manufacturing is dying and that's not the case. Manufacturing is changing. It used to be you stood behind the machine and turned the dials and manufactured the part. Well now, it is not so much that, now you program the ma- chine to machine the part for you so you can go to the next machine. So, instead of standing behind the machine and making one part, you make a program to set up five machines and go on to the next one and these five machines are working for you, while you focus over here. It's just much more efficient." - Tristan Newton, Dexter-Russell, Inc. EMPLOY EE PROF ILE: Tristan Newton Position: Apprentice Tool & Die Maker Age: 21 School: Graduated Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School and is currently enrolled at Quinsigamond Community College Years at Company: 4