White County Abrasives and Industrial Supply Inc., of Carmi has won national attention.
The business was featured in a main story of a recent issue of FF Journal, a trade publication that features information on metal fabricating and forming technologies.
The business is owned by Jim and Penny Lindley, with Penny having the majority of the stock in the business, making it a minority-owned business.
Jim is a native of northeastern Mississippi and Penny is a native of southern Wisconsin. The two met on a tour at Disney World. Later, while riding their touring motorcycle through Carmi on a long ride, they stopped here for a break.
"We got to looking around and really just thought it was a nice area," Jim said. "It was about halfway between my family and her family and just seemed like a good place to settle."
That was in 1988. The two now share a 12-year-old daughter and a grown son and have exceeded $1 million in sales with their 20-year-old business.
For the last 15 years, the business has been an authorized Scotchman industrial equipment dealer -- it is now one of the top-10 Scotchman dealers in the U.S. Jim said he has probably sold 300 of the units over the years and, more recently, has sold about seven such pieces to Elastec/American Marine, also based in Carmi.
The business sells welding and industrial equipment in Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and western Kentucky. It provides hand tools, grinders, heavy drills and many other items to area farmers, coal mines and auto body shops, to mention just a few of the types of business supplied.
The business has one employee, Grayville native Ray Sanders, who now lives in Carmi.
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