AT Ferrell recently celebrated its 143rd anniversary as a manufacturer of agriculture and food processing machinery with an open house at its company headquarters in Bluffton.
The following companies joined the Apartment Association of Fort Wayne-Northeast Indiana as regular members: Abbey Stombaugh (independent rental owner), and Savannah Springs. New associate members are America’s Floor Source, Asphalt Maintenance Service, John Hogan Insurance Agency, Naylor & Sons Property Management and Precision Concrete of Holland, Mich.
Strebig Construction won the renovations to Room 218 in the visual arts building and the acoustic sound-proofing project for the recording studio inside Rhinehart music building at IPFW.
Terex Roadbuilding, a front-discharge ready-mix concrete truck manufacturer, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary and announced it is restarting its assembly line.
The Hagerman Group won the contract for the Fort Wayne Neurological Center tenant build-out.
Sauder Manufacturing Co.’s Wieland Healthcare brand of furniture products earned six major furniture and interior design awards: NeoCon Gold 2010 and 2012, The Nightengale Award 2011, Best of HealthCare Design Show 2011, IDEA Design Award 2012 and Product Innovation Award 2012.
KB Search Team is expanding its office and services. It is now located at 111 E. Ludwig Road, Suite 104. For information, call 489-3350 or go to www.kbsearchteam.com.
Baker Street Office Furnishings completed the installation of dorm room furniture for the new Warrior Row 3 residence hall on the Indiana Tech Fort Wayne campus.
Franklin Electric Co. completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the outstanding stock of Cerus Industrial Inc. Franklin agreed to pay $25.7 million in an all-cash transaction.
The winners of the 2012 Excellence in Recycling 3R Awards were Press-Seal Gasket and Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream for Industrial/Manufacturing Firm; Ivy Tech Community College for the Institution Category; and the University of Saint Francis in the Not-for-Profit Category. Partnership Awards were given to OmniSource Corp., Batteries Plus, Navistar, Citilink, City of New Haven, Sears, Hires
Automotive, Connolly’s Do it Best, Sam’s Club, Kroger/Scott’s, Umber’s Hardware, Grabill
Hardware Store, Town of Leo-Cedarville and City of Monroeville. Honor Roll Awards were given to National Serv-All, Waste Management of Fort Wayne, Serv-All Recycling, Safety-Kleen Corp., Liberty Tire Recycling, Quincy Recycle, Earth First and Recycle Logic.
Yolo Event Center recently celebrated the opening of its new outdoor patio with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4201 N. Wells St. For information, go to www.yoloevents.com.
Manchester University was named in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Honor Roll of 2012 Great Colleges to Work For.
Leadership Fort Wayne announced the location of the 2012 Regional Leadership Experience will be Wichita, Kan. Business and community leaders will be there from Oct. 25 to 27.






