The Wallaceburg and District Chamber of Commerce is honouring some of the community’s best.
The annual Business and Community Excellence Awards are being handed out this week – a little different than the usual ceremony thanks to COVID-19.
As heard on CKXS this morning, Whyte’s Foods has been given this year’s Agriculture award.
Whyte’s is Canada’s largest pickle and pepper packer. Last year Whyte’s opened a manufacturing facility here in Wallaceburg and have invested within the area ever since. Whyte’s values Canadian agriculture and supports our local farms by producing as many of their products as possible with Canadian crop.
Debot Farms Popcorn Barn and DVS Farms Limited were also nominated.
The Industrial Achievement honour goes to North Element.
North Element supplies wholesale and retail customers de-icer 1,300 kms south to 2,200 kms north, covering the entire snow belt region in both the USA and Canada with branded and private label products all coming out of the Wallaceburg facility. President and CEO Randy Furlan who lives just outside of Wallaceburg has been operating the business in town for over 10 years.
The runners up in the Industrial Achievement category include Source Designs Ltd and Select Finishing.
Aarkel Tool and Die won the Technology award.
AarKel has been engineering and building precision tools and strong customer relationships since 1977. Their team is continuously working on new innovative technologies that make AarKel the supplier of choice.
the other two finalists for the Tech award include Authier Print and Promotional and Deeply Creative.
More award winners will be announced on 99.1 CKXS throughout the week, each morning just after 8:30am.
