Kasich ED rep tours local companies

Van Wert independent/submitted information

With Ohio Governor Kasich’s priority on new job creation, Chase Eikenbary, the Northwest Ohio Regional liaison to the governor, is making her way around northwest Ohio, meeting with businesses to learn more about them and to express the governor’s goal to create new jobs.

Earlier this week, Eikenbary visited National Door & Trim to tour the newly completed showroom expansion, and Advance Biological Marketing (ABM) to learn about its growth and future plans in Van Wert.

During the visit with ABM, company representatives noted that farmers, agronomists and agricultural consultants dedicated to pushing the limits of technologies available to the agricultural community were the people who founded the company. ABM is focused on the farmer, both domestically and internationally, and dedicated to increasing the output and profitability of farmland.

“Everything we do is in the best interest of the farmer,” said ABM CEO Dan Custis. “We understand that farmers not only provide food that feed the world, but their own families as well.”

In addition, as farmland is passed from generation to generation, ABM is committed to offering sustainable solutions to the grower.

Currently, ABM is exporting products to 15 countries and has plans to double that by 2015. Custis noted that, with ABM’s products expected to increase yield production of rice, corn and wheat by 30-40 percent, developing countries are extremely interested in their product, as are the U.S. farmers.