California's 1995 "Small Business Person of the Year" Max P. Schlienger of Retech, Inc.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1995--The San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration is pleased to announce the 1995 California "Small Business Person of the Year," Max P. Schlienger of Retech, Inc., located in Ukiah, California Ukiah (pronounced You-kai-ah) is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California. With its accessible location in the Ukiah Valley along the Highway 101 corridor and just several miles south of the junction with Highway 20, Ukiah serves as the city center for . Max P. Schlienger, known to his customers as Max, is the founder and president of Retech. Retech is one of the largest employers in rural Mendocino County. In a local economy largely dependent on a struggling timber industry, and enduring a higher-than-average unemployment rate, Retech provides 140 jobs for assemblers This is a list of assemblers. Hundreds of assemblers have been written; some notable examples are:
Max started Schlienger Engineering in 1964 with 15 employees which then became Retech in 1974 and has provided a variety of custom-engineered equipment for melting, refining, and casting high grade metals and metal alloys. "This is the second year that a Ukiah business has been selected as `Small Business Person of the Year,'" commented Mark Quinn
Retech has applied its knowledge of melting systems to cleaning up hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. . The Plasma Arc Centrifugal centrifugal /cen·trif·u·gal/ (sen-trif´ah-gal) efferent (1). cen·trif·u·gal adj. 1. Moving or directed away from a center or axis. 2. Treatment system, designed and manufactured by Retech, uses a plasma arc to stabilize hazardous metals and to destroy organics. The process produces a homogeneous, stable, and chemically inert glassy slag that can be disposed of more safely and economically than before. Faced with the decrease in the defense and aerospace markets, Max redirected Retech's efforts towards the hazardous waste cleanup market. In 1986 Retech built its first pilot-scale system and joined with Moser-Glaser & Company in 1989 to produce a full-scale PACT waste treatment facility in Switzerland. A smaller system successfully completed the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation program, and a full-scale system is at the core of the Lockheed Environmental Systems and Technologies Company plan to clean up the Pit 9 hazardous waste site at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratories. In mid-March of 1995, Retech sold certain assets and liabilities of the company to Lockheed Environmental Systems and Technologies Company, a division of LOCKHEED-MARTIN. The Lockheed purchase resulted from mutual interests and Lockheed's superior experience with government contracting, along with their financial capability to expand Retech's efforts to further the worldwide use of Retech's technology and equipment for environmental cleanup The process of removing solid, liquid, and hazardous wastes, except for unexploded ordnance, resulting from the joint operation of US forces to a condition that approaches the one existing prior to operation as determined by the environmental baseline survey, if one was conducted. . All of Retech's employees have been maintained under the new ownership and Max has an extended employment agreement to manage the business. Although Max is too modest to seek recognition for himself, he is held in high esteem by this employees, customers and community. This is shown further by the fact the Max was nominated by his employees for this prestigious award as SBA's 1995 California "Small Business Person of the Year." Max P. Schlienger will be honored at a reception sponsored by the Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. of Mendocino on Monday, May 8 in Ukiah. CONTACT: U.S. Small Business Administration, San Francisco Gloria Minarik, 415/744-8491 |
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