Akron

PSC Metals Inc., based in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, has announced the acquisition of the ferrous and nonferrous assts at the Akron and Barberton, Ohio, yards of Ravenna Salvage Inc., also known as Akron Recycling.

The Akron metropolitan area--home to 702,000 residents--stretches across Summit and Portage Counties.

Six Ohio college students were selected for scholarships honoring Akron Beacon Journal editor and Knight Ridder Newspapers founder John S.

In the past, I've written about Canton's Cornelius Aultman and Akron's Lewis Miller, and the Russell Co.

10--Anthe's Restaurant, Akron, Ohio; Joint Meeting with AFS Northeastern Ohio.

In a dingy, defunct, red-brick manufacturing complex in a nondescript quarter of Akron, Ohio, the old order of Midwestern manufacturing is literally giving birth to a new, lighter-weight generation.

David Adamsen, group vice president of Dean Foods, parent company to the Akron-based Reiter, noted: "Business is good, but the company has decided we can offer our customers more advanced packaging and other things we aren't able to do in Akron. We will no longer make ice cream here." The move will eliminate about 25 jobs, seven percent of the work force.

After Akron Extruders sold its single-screw extruder business to Cincinnati Milacron in early 2000, director of manufacturing Thomas Allen and other employees who didn't want to relocate from Akron to Cincinnati continued feed-screw manufacturing under the name Akron Quality Feedscrews.

His loss is deeply felt, but the Rural Studio's evangelizing work continues, with two of its most recent projects, the Akron Girls and Boys Club (p50) and Lucy's House (p54) shown here.

and a part-time professor at the University of Akron, is the general chairperson of the Ebony Fashion Fair show in Akron, Ohio.

offices and North American technical center in Akron, OH.

The City of Akron, Ohio, long recognized for its volunteer spirit, has completed a meaningful mission that it began following the September 11 terrorist attacks.