MACNY’s Highest Honor is to be inducted in the Manufacturers Wall of Fame. Winner’s accomplishments are celebrated at the MACNY Annual Dinner. Prior winners include Donald F. Dew, founder of Diemolding Corporation; Sam Haines, founder and President of Nixon Gear; Jacob Steigerwald, President of Cathedral Candle Company; Milt Stevenson, founder and CEO of Anoplate Corporation; and John Vensel, Chairman and CEO of Crucible Materials Corporation.
The winners have been a chief executive or top local officer of a successful manufacturing firm and a major contributor to their companies and the economic well-being of the region.
Carl Byrne
Byrne Dairy, Inc.
2024
Jackie Ferrari
American Fashion Network
2023
Mike Wetzel
Air Innovations
2023
Ross Berntson
Indium Corporation
2021
Louis DeMent
Giovanni Food Co., Inc.
2020
Kathleen Alaimo
Syracuse Label & Surround Printing
2020
Rick Harrington
The Raymond Corporation
2019
Patrick Morocco
Bartell Machinery Systems
2019
Kirk Wardell
Marquardt Switches, Inc.
2018
Greg Owens
Liberty Tabletop
2018
Raymond Currier
Currier Plastics
2017
Arnie Rubenstein
United Radio
2017
James Beckman
Crucible Industries, LLC
2016
Hamdi Ulukaya
Chobani
2016
Dave Freund
Selflock Screw
2015
Cheryl Maines
Allen Tool Phoenix
2015
Jerry and Anne Menter
Hollowick
2014
Bill Byrne
Byrne Dairy
2014
Joseph ‘Joe’ Talerico
C.H. Thompson Co.
2013
Leon Chandler
Cortland Line Co.
2013
Peter Maier
INFICON
2013
James J. Malvaso
The Raymond Corporation
2012
Robert Barbero
Gray-Syracuse, Inc.
2012
M. Brian O’Shaughnessy
Revere Copper Products, Inc.
2012
James J. McNamara, Jr.
Endicott Interconnect
2011
Lawrence E. Wetzel
Air Innovations
2011
Mark Pulver
Syracuse Castings
2011
Mary Ann Tyszko
SRCTec, Inc.
2010
Philip Wenzel
Briggs & Stratton Yard Power Prod. Grp.
2010
John & Betty Armstrong
Armstrong Mold
2009
Ralph BeVard
The Eraser Company
2009
J. Kemper Matt, Sr.
Dupli Graphics
2009
David A.A. Riding
Pass & Seymour
2008
Robert H. Feldmeier
Feldmeier Equipment, Inc.
2008
Robert R. Andrews
Morse Manufacturing
2008
Chester D. Amond
Syracuse China
2007
Milton Stevenson, Sr.
Anoplate
2007
Ronald M. Ruzic
BorgWarner Inc.
2007
Donald F. Dew
Diemolding Corporation
2006
Henry Beck
Tessy Plastics
2006
Samuel R. Haines
Gear Motions
2006
Jacob Steigerwald
Cathedral Candle Company
2005
John Vensel
Crucible
2005
Mark Golden
Golden Artists, Inc.
2005
David Harden
Harden Furniture
2004
Anthony Henninger
New Process Gear
2004
Richard H. Pass
Pass & Seymour Legrand
2004
Donald S. Jaquith
Jaquith Industries
2003
Chris J. Witting
Crouse-Hinds
2003
Larry Leatherman
Bristol-Myers Squibb
2003
Pierrepont T. Noyes
Oneida Ltd.
2002
Vincent H. Callahan
Crucible Materials Corp
2002
Richard F. Schneider
Schneider Packaging Equipment Co., Inc.
2002
William F. Allyn
Welch Allyn Corporation
2001
Willis Carrier
Carrier Corporation
2001
Alfred and Aminy Audi
L & J.G. Stickley Co.
2001