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Salute to Industry

May 25, 2014

Inside PACCAR:The 2014 winner of East Mississippi Community College’s Director’s Award......6



East Mississippi Community College is committed to assuring that the College and its programs are free from discrimination and harassment based upon race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientationgender identity, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, or any other status protected by state or federal law. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Dr. Andrea Mayfield, Vice

President for Scooba Campus, SC Student Services, EEOC/OCR, & Institutional Research Building. Contact her at Davis Administration Building, P.O. Box 158, Scooba, MS, 39358; by email at [email protected] or by phone at (662) 476-5000.

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“All of us know someone who needs a new skill set to achieve the American dream. We are very proud to partner with our in-dustry leaders to help provide the training people need - whether it’s long-term associate’s degree or short-term workforceclasses. The reason America is so great is because of people who give of themselves for the common good - industry leaders,military personnel, local and state-elected officials, economic developers and others. We are proud to be part of that group.”

Dr. Raj Shaunak, Vice President for Workforce & Community Services, East Mississippi Community College

Summer classes begin May 27. Fall classes begin Aug. 18.

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East Mississippi Community College salutes industry:The economic engine driving success in the Golden Triangle!

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4-County Electric Power Association ....................................................17Airbus Helicopters ................................................................................19BancorpSouth .......................................................................................18Baptist Memorial Hospital — Golden Triangle ........................ .............. 18Brunini Law Firm ..................................................................................10Burns Dirt Construction ........................................................................16Cash & Carry Building Supply ................................................................7The Clinic at Elm Lake ............................................................................7East Mississippi Community College .......................................................2Ecolab ..................................................................................................11

Evans Plumbing & Air Conditioning ........................................................5Industrial Fire Protection .........................................................................9Galloway-Chandler-McKinney Insurance ....................... ......................... 7Golden Triangle Regional Airport ....................... ......................... .......... 18Greater Starkville Development Partnership ........................ .................... 4

The Golden Triangle Development LINK .................................... .......... 10Magnolia Business Systems ...................................................................11Mid-South Signs ...................................................................................11Mississippi University for Women ...................... ......................... ............ 9Neel-Shaffer ...........................................................................................7Newell Paper Company ........................................................................16Quality Inn ...........................................................................................16River Chase Inn ......................................................................................9Southern Ionics.....................................................................................18Southwire ...............................................................................................4

Valmet Paper ........................................................................................20Waste Pro USA .....................................................................................11Wheeler Roofng ..................................................................................16Yokohama Tire Corporation ............................... ......................... .......... 17

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PACCAR employs more than 400 people at its Lowndes County engine plant that began operating in 2010.Since it opened, the engine-maker has made approximately 50,000 truck engines. | Courtesy photo

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2013

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Because of the plant’s focus on job growth and its commitment to

community involvement, the Greater Starkville Development Partnership

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Year Award for 2013.

Southwire Starkville, located on Airport Road, has 330 employees that

produce around 100 million lbs. of cable per year that is used throughout

The US, Canada and Latin America. One in three new homes built in the United States contains

wire made by Southwire. Our utility cable and building wire carry electricity to wherever it is needed.

Southwire is the 3rd largest wire and cable manufacturer in the world.

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Seven years ago, construction began

on a massive PACCAR engine plant

that would eventually cover 500,000

square feet along a 400-acre site at the

Golden Triangle Industrial Park.

At the time, it was welcomed news.

The economy was tough and Lowndes

County and the surrounding areas were not

immune. Plants were closing. People were

being laid off.So in the summer of 2007, when PACCAR

announced that it would break ground on

the $400 million state-of-the-art facility

just outside of Columbus, then-Gov. Haley

Barbour said the plant would hopefully “help

maintain economic growth and contribute to

an improved quality of life” in the region.

Looking at the Golden Triangle landscape

today, you would be hard-pressed to argue

that the prediction was inaccurate.Today, more than 400 people go to work

everyday at the facility on Paccar Drive.

They do steady work. In May, Scott Blue,

the plant’s manager, said that since the

plant began operating in 2010 it has had

approximately 50,000 engines assembled

within its walls.

“The Golden Triangle has been a terrific

partner to get the plant started and now

sustain it as the world-class facility that it is,”Blue said.

While PACCAR appreciates what the

region has done for it, the stable leadership

and innovation it has displayed in the area

has not gone unnoticed.

This spring, at the annual Golden Triangle

Industry Appreciation Luncheon at East

Mississippi Community College, PACCAR

earned the Director’s Award, the event’s

highest award.

The award, according to organizers,

was “for the highest level of recognition

through workforce t raining, demonstrating

management excellence with superior

outcomes, continuing to improve and build

upon outstanding results and excellent

systems and deploying world-class process.”

PACCAR was founded in 1905 in Seattle,

Washington. The corporate headquarters

remain there still. The company employed

roughly 22,800 people worldwide in 2012.

Where does the all-caps name come from?

It is an acronym for the company’s original

name, Pacific Car and Foundry.

The company’s focus is the design,

manufacture and sale of premium trucks

under the brands of Kenworth, DAF and

Peterbilt.

The Columbus plant, Blue said, machines

cylinder blocks and cylinder heads for 11-liter

and 13-liter engines that when assembled,

become the MX11 and MX13 engines, which

PACCAR unveiled for Peterbilt and Kenworth

trucks at the Mid-America Trucking Show in

early 2010.

The MX13 engines are assembled at the

Columbus plant. Blue said that in the near

future, employees will also start assembling

the MX11 engines inside the facility.

The MX-11 engine is a 10.8-liter, six-

cylinder engine with power outputs up to

440 horsepower and a torque range up to

1,550 lb-ft. The MX13 engine is a 12.9-liter

rated engine with power outputs up to 500

horsepower, and it is designed to meet the

demands of both linehaul and vocational

heavy-duty truck applications. MX engines

are designed to last for 1 million miles

without a major overhaul.

Blue said the Columbus plant’s assembly

line works two shifts, five days a week. Themachining area, meanwhile, works three

shifts, five days a week.

The plant is totally climate-controlled

year-round and puts zero waste into the

local landfill.

Since PACCAR began producing engines

in Columbus, the Golden Triangle has

slowly rebounded out of a tough economy.

Industries are locating here. Others, already

here, have announced plans to expand. Just last year, it was announced that

Yokohama Tire Corporation had selected

West Point as the location for its new

U.S. commercial truck tire manufacturing

plant, which includes a 931,000-square-

foot facility. It is set to open in 2015, will

eventually manufacture 1 million commercial

tires annually and employ 2,000 people.

The future looks bright in the Golden

Triangle.And PACCAR — whose MX13 engine was

named the 2013 engine of the year by the

American Truck Dealers Association — is a

major contributor to that outlook.

Blue credited EMCC, the Golden Triangle

Development LINK and local government for

the successes the area is having in pulling in

industry.

“(They) have truly worked together

to make this a very healthy business

environment,” he said.

PACCAR helps pave wayfor Golden Triangle industry re-birth

By WILLIAM BROWNING | [email protected]

PACCAR broke ground on a 500,000 square foot engine plant at the Golden Triangle IndustrialPark in 2007. Three years later, the facility began making engines for Peterbilt, Kenworth andDAF brand trucks. | Courtesy photo

ON THE COVER: At its Lowndes County plant, PACCAR machines cylinder blocks and cylinder heads for 11-liter and 13-liter engines. When assembled, those blocks and heads becomeMX11 and MX13 engines. The MX13 engines are assembled at the plant. The company has plans to begin assembling the MX11 engines at the plant, as well. | Courtesy photo

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East Mississippi Community College’s25th Annual Industry Appreciation Luncheon

Photos Mary Alice Weeks | Dispatch Staff

(top left) BMH-GT Assistant Administrator Bill Lancaster, left, accepts the Best Practices Award from East Mississippi Community College Vice President for Workforce Services Dr. Raj Shaunak andLt. Gov. Tate Reeves. | (top right) Retired EMCC Director of Workforce Services and Industrial Services Otis Taylor accepts a Special Recognition from Shaunak and Reeves. | (bottom left) EMCCVice President of Golden Triangle Campus Dr. Paul Miller accepts a Special Recognition award on behalf of The Honorable Terry Brown from Reeves. | (bottom right) Shaunak and Reeves presentrepresentatives for PACCAR with the Director’s Award, from left: Engine Program Manager Lex Lemmers, Plant Manager Scott Blue, Assistant Plant Manager Lance Walters, Controller Tina Albertand Assistant Plant Manager Edwin Sneehuijzen.

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Career & Technical Center); (middle row) Robert McClanahan, Blake Barksdale and Jason Burrell (Stark Aerospace), Jason Collins (Lowndes County Youth Court), Chris Bray (Columbus Municipal Schools), Karen Clay (MUW);

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(top row) Monty Yates, Sandra Murray and Jim McAlexander (BankFirst), Teresa Hughes (Board of Trustees), Thomas Lee Sr. (Lowndes County Industrial Development Authority), Lauren Buntin and Kim Richardson (North

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(this page, top row, from left) Mary Beth Vickers, Susan Baird and Laura Guthrie (EMCC), Lex Lemmers (Paccar), Raj Shaunak (EMCC), Lance Walters (Paccar), Joe Williams (Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisiors), Linda

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Newman (EMCC), Khristy Franklin (Noxubee County Career Technical Center), John Davis (Cadence Bank), Stacy Shelly (MS Precision Cast Parts)




(top row, from left) Terry Grassaree (Noxubee County Sherrif’s Dept.), Meeka Bland (EMCC), Patty Thrash (Weyerhaeuser), Carey Butler (EMCC), Eddie Houston and Jordan Houston (MS Provision Cast Parts); (middle row)

Edwin Smeehuijzen, Scott Blue and Tina Albert (Paccar), Marilyn Maddox, Tricia Corrigan and Debi Valentine (EMCC); (bottom row) Amy Berry (Clay County Chancery Clerk), R.B. Davis (Clay County District 5 Supervisor),

Donna Rupp, Carey Edwards and Doug Robertson (Cadence Bank), Anthony Miller (4-County), David Jernigan (OCH) | Photographs by Luisa Porter & Mary Alice Weeks




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