NAM names Dudek & Bock as Sandy Trowbridge Award winner

NAM President/CEO Jay Timmons presents Kathleen and John Dudek from Dudek & Bock with the 10th annual Sandy Trowbridge Award.
Photo by David Bohrer/NAM.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), Washington, D.C., has awarded Dudek & Bock Spring Mfg. Co., Chicago, as the winner of the 2016 Sandy Trowbridge Award. This award recognizes a NAM member company that demonstrates exemplary leadership in serving its community or state and is a leading example of the nation’s manufacturers and businesses.

Dudek & Bock, a manufacturer of springs, wire forms, and light metal stampings, is recognized for its broad community engagement. The firm is dedicated to offering manufacturing training and education programs to encourage the next generation of manufacturers, including partnering with local high schools and community colleges, partnering with a local library to create a robotics program for middle school and high school students, and offering hands-on site visits and community career counseling.

The company has selected the Jane Addams Resource Corp. (JARC) to receive the award funds. The Center for Working Families at JARC focuses on job training and workforce development.