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Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Hennig Manufacturing Company continues to grow in Machesney Park, hires 200 workers
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. (WTVO) — Leaders of a manufacturing company in Machesney Park said their business continues to grow with each passing year. That's the word from Hennig chairman and CEO Dietmar Goellner. He gave Eyewitness News a tour of their facility on North Second Street. He said he's been in his role for roughly a quarter century. 'I love it because I love working with our people,' Goellner said. 'I love the fact that we've been able to do something that's extremely difficult. We've scaled our business every year for the last six, seven years. We've doubled our business year after year after year, and that's something we're proud of.' While giving us a tour, he had to stop at times to marvel at the work his employees do. 'I come more from a machine tool background and so I just feel like every day I'm learning something new,' he said. The facility manufactures large generator enclosures. They provide critical emergency backup power in case there's a primary power failure at places like massive data centers for companies like Amazon and Meta. 'We need to turn that that power on very quickly and it has to have a very high reliability that indeed it will come on when it needs to come on,' he said. Goellner said it takes a lot of talented workers to make sure things run smoothly. 'Right now Hennig has probably north of 900 working here,' he said. 'We need to hire another 200 or so by the end of this year to meet our customer demand.' They are hiring, he said. He said it's necessary to achieve the company's goals for growth. 'Our goal right now is to do 650 units this year,' he said. 'We want to do 800 to 900 units next year. And for the orders that we're receiving in 2027, our goal is to do 1200 units.' Goellner said Hennig is always looking to improve how they run the business. 'There's a saying that your current state should be your worst state which means that we are striving for excellence and that every day, every week, every month we want to be better at what we do,' he said. He said the sky is the limit for how far Hennig can grow in the years to come. 'So we are a family owned business. We're private. We're not owned by private equity. We're not publicly traded company,' he said. 'So as far as the future goes, everyone said that, 'hey, let's keep growing the business,' so this will get turned over to that third generation and we're excited about the future.' Hennig's generator enclosures are up for being voted as the Coolest Thing Made in the State for this year's Makers Madness contest. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Yahoo
Blue Valley parents concerned over sex offender attending school dance
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Blue Valley School District parents are angry after a registered sex offender who once admitted to having child pornography was allowed to go to an elementary school dance. 'When you go read about what he was charged with, then I'm not so fond of him taking videos,' said Blue Valley parent Colter Daubert. FOX4 isn't naming the offender but, parents shared a picture of the man appearing to capture images or video on a cell phone of the Sole Mate Dance for students in grades one through six at Blue River Elementary School in early February. Kansas City area school closings, remote learning for Thursday In 2011, that same man pleaded guilty to having and sharing child pornography and went to prison before getting supervised release. He's still on the sex offender registry for the next 17 years because court documents say, at the time, detectives found hundreds of pictures and videos of naked girls between one and 14 years old, including of a six to eight-year-old girl being sexually assaulted. 'There's no way I would let someone like that even around the children,' said Daubert. Parent Natasha Goellner claims the district often stresses safety and security in its events but she says allowing a sex offender to attend a school dance contradicts that. '[The School District] should know better,' said Goellner. 'It's a school district. They have policies for everything. But they really didn't have a policy put in place for sex offenders.' Working For You, FOX4 reviewed numerous email exchanges between school leaders and angry parents. In those messages, district leaders lay out what they claim is the district policy: allowing sex offenders with family members in the district to request permission to come to school events and be monitored during them. In this instance, the offender in question is living with a woman who has kids in the district and got permission to be at the dance. 'I understand that they had a process to go through but they didn't let any of the parents know,' said Daubert. Olathe man charged after crashing car into roof of building in Excelsior Springs Wednesday, the Blue Valley School District sent us this statement: 'We have heard the concerns expressed by some of our families. In March, the Board will review and revise policy, followed by a 30-day patron review period before final approval in April. We remain dedicated to maintaining a safe and supportive school environment. This policy update will reflect our ongoing commitment to student safety.' Daubert and Goellner say they plan on being involved in the district process and reaching out to state lawmakers to see how they could also impact Kansas state law. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
