Full Text of HR1343 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Fifty years ago Bruce Nesbit founded Orion | 3 | | Industries, Ltd. - a company that applies Teflon coatings on | 4 | | products from consumer bakeware to automotive and industrial | 5 | | products; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Orion
Industries has been a Dupont Licensed | 7 | | Applicator of Teflon since 1979; it not only
applies Teflon and | 8 | | other functional coatings but creates, develops, and builds | 9 | | application
equipment to apply the coatings; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Bruce Nesbit attended Lane Tech College Prep High | 11 | | School,
Wilbur Wright Junior College (now Wilbur Wright | 12 | | College), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; | 13 | | in 1963 and 1964,
while recovering from a broken ankle, he | 14 | | started Orion Industries in his parents' basement at
4654 | 15 | | Laramie Avenue in Northwest Chicago; in that basement, he first | 16 | | applied coatings to race car
engine parts, one of his lifelong | 17 | | passions, which resulted in him winning many road racing
| 18 | | championships; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, In 1964, Bruce Nesbit required start-up financing | 20 | | that was obtained by selling stock to friends, relatives,
his | 21 | | initial suppliers, and anyone he could convince; this allowed | 22 | | him to open his first
production facility at 346 North Justine |
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| 1 | | Street in Chicago; he eventually repaid all of his 45 initial
| 2 | | shareholders with a handsome return on their investment and | 3 | | continued to grow his company; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Since that initial 3-person production facility, | 5 | | Bruce Nesbit has moved his company twice, first to 4640 Clark | 6 | | Street in 1981, and then in 1991 to the present production | 7 | | facility - a 22,000
square feet facility at 5170 North | 8 | | Northwest Highway; Orion Industries will be relocating in the | 9 | | near future
to a new 68,000 square feet facility at 5480 North | 10 | | Northwest Highway; it has grown from 3 employees in
1964 to 138 | 11 | | today; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Bruce Nesbit often gets kidded about his prototype | 13 | | machines, many of which have been patented; his unofficial
| 14 | | title is CTO - Chief Tinkerologist; he holds 31 United States | 15 | | Patents, with 9 more pending; he is
on the national board of | 16 | | the Society of the Plastics Industry and is a member of other | 17 | | committees
and organizations such as Vistage International; he | 18 | | was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall
of | 19 | | Fame in 2013; his company was awarded the DuPont Plunkett Award | 20 | | for Industrial
Innovation in 2014; gain-sharing, where | 21 | | employees are rewarded for productivity and
efficiency, is the | 22 | | cornerstone of his management
philosophy; and
| 23 | | WHEREAS, Bruce Nesbit continues to reside in Chicago; he |
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| 1 | | has 2 married daughters, one grandson, and another on the way; | 2 | | he is truly a Chicago guy, and along with his wife, Diane | 3 | | Jacobson, donates to several museums, artists, and theater | 4 | | groups, such as the TimeLine Theatre Company; they are also | 5 | | supporters of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, Adaptive | 6 | | Adventures,
the Wounded Warriors Project, the Anchor Cross | 7 | | Society at Rush University Medical Center, breast cancer | 8 | | research, leukemia research, and
other local charities and | 9 | | civic organizations; therefore, be it
| 10 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 | | we recognize Bruce Nesbit and congratulate him on the success | 13 | | of his company Orion Industries, Ltd., and we wish him many | 14 | | more years of success; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to Bruce Nesbit as an expression of our esteem and | 17 | | respect.
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