Ohashi gives village gift for 17 years in Sunbury

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Den­nis Leck­ron, Admin­is­tra­tive Man­ager with Ohashi Tech­nica U.S.A., Inc., located at 111 Bur­rer Drive in Sun­bury, was in cham­bers dur­ing last Wednesday’s (Sep­tem­ber 5) Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing bear­ing a gift.

Ohashi Tech­nica, which man­u­fac­tures col­lars, fas­ten­ers and nuts for the auto­mo­tive indus­try, has oper­ated in the United States for 25 years and opened a plant in Sun­bury in 1995. Ohashi has 30 ware­house employ­ees on one shift; man­u­fac­tur­ing has 20 employ­ees on two shifts.

Ear­lier this year, on April 27, the vil­lage teamed up with Delaware County to plant three Yoshino Cherry Trees at the Ohashi plant; and the pres­i­dent of Ohashi trav­eled from Japan to Sun­bury in July to par­tic­i­pate in the plant­ing two addi­tional trees to com­mem­o­rate the firm’s quar­ter cen­tury of oper­a­tions in Ohio.

At last Wednesday’s coun­cil meet­ing, Leck­ron pre­sented the vil­lage with an engraved com­mem­o­ra­tive crys­tal vase.

“This gift is on behalf of Ohashi Tech­nica Incor­po­rated and our employ­ees,” Leck­ron said. “In 1995 we built our facil­ity on what was then the out­skirts of the vil­lage. Bur­rer Drive was just being devel­oped. You are to be com­mended on your growth as a vil­lage, and we take pride in Ohashi Technica’s 17 years in Sun­bury of its 25 years incor­po­rated in Ohio.”

Leck­ron said in 1995 Ohashi opened its Sun­bury plant with 23 employ­ees. Today the com­pany has 57 employ­ees at its Sun­bury oper­a­tion and is growing.

“We thank the vil­lage for five Yoshino cherry trees,” Leck­ron said. “Thanks to (Sun­bury Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor) Dave Mar­tin and the vil­lage main­te­nance crew. They were instru­men­tal in our 25th year cel­e­bra­tion. This gift is in appre­ci­a­tion of our busi­ness relationship.”

Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field said the vil­lage thanks Ohashi Tech­nica for being a good cor­po­rate citizen.

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