Article: City boasts manufacturing e'ship.

Byline: Adrian Sanchez

Mar. 3--This is one in a series of stories about local entrepreneurs. Feb. 24 through March 3 is Entrepreneurship WEEK USA.

COLUMBUS -- Columbus achieved the status as the biggest manufacturing community in the region because of entrepreneurial enterprises such as Behlen Mfg. Co. and Duo-Lift Mfg. Co. Inc. Walt Behlen began Behlen Manufacturing Company in 1936 at the garage behind the local family home. Behlen is one of the most renowned entrepreneurs in the area, the state and in the nation and his eventual predecessor, Tony Raimondo, chairman and CEO of Behlen Mfg., has received similar recognition.

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