Member News

The Small Business Association named GT Manufacturing its 2014 Exporter of the Year for the state of Kansas. SBA officials presented the award to GT President Dennis Pedersen and Operations Manager Gary Willmann on June 26.

GT Mfg. is based in Clay Center, Kansas. The company’s portable batch grain dryers are sold in 77 countries on 6 continents.

Nomination criteria include increased sales, profits and/or growth of employment due to exporting; creative overseas marketing strategies; effective solutions to export-related problems; encouraging other small businesses to export; assisting other small businesses entering the export market; and introducing unique trading relationships, products or services.

GT Manufacturing—Association member since 1957; gtmfg.com.

McKay Industries Inc. purchased the assets of M.D. Products Inc., according to a news release from the McKay-Empire-Wiese group of companies (MEW). The new company will be called MD Products and Solutions (MDPS).

At its Mason City, IA, facility, MDPS manufactures a line of powder-coat painted combine header transportation products, including trailer models ranging from 32’ to 48’, economy trailers, and small kits used to convert running gear to short-haul trailers.

MEW produces a wide range of specialty tillage tools and harvesting parts.

MEW—Association member since 1980; mckayempire.com. S