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Photograph by: Arturo Vera, Arturo Vera Photography
47th Annual Industrial Technology BBQ
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2011 Agricultural Hall of Fame
Stockton Restaurant Week 2011
On the cover: Ron Scatena, Allied Waste Services; James Pope, Green Horizons; Linda Foth, Applied Aerospace Structures Corp.; Phillip Gill, Weber Logistics; Douglass Highsmith, Dorfman Pacific
PORT CALLGREATER STOCKTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
www.stocktonchamber.org SEPTEMBER2011
Vol. 57 No. 5
CONTENTS
PORT CALL
47th Annual Industrial Technology BBQ 15
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Don’t Miss!Networking Mixer
Stockton Golf and Country ClubThursday, September 1, 5:15-7:15 p.m.
3800 W. Country Club Blvd Stockton 95204
42011 Agricultural Hall of Fame
Photographs by Arturo Vera, Arturo Vera Photography
Events 4
From Your President 5
From Your CEO 6
Leadership Stockton 7
Programs and Public 10 Policy Department
Convention & Visitors Bureau 12
New Members 13
Ribbon Cuttings 14
Cover Story 15
News Briefs 19
Calendar 21 StocktonRESTAURANT WEEKSeptember 16-25 DINE & ENJOY
Restaurant W
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StocktonRestaurantWeek.com
PORT CALL
GREATER STOCKTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE445 W. Weber Avenue, Suite 220, Stockton, CA 95203
2011 Industrial Technology Barbeque HonoreesWednesday September 14, 2011
New Companies:
American Custom Meats, LLC
Dole Packaging Foods, LLC
ECS Refining
Green Horizons Manufacturing, LLC
Terex Equipment Services
Turkhan Foods
Expanded Companies:
Allied Waste Services
Applied Aerospace Structures Corp.
Diamond Pet Foods
Dorfman Pacific Co., Inc.
Scientific Specialties, Inc.
The Wine Group
Weber Logistics
PG&E Green Award:
Lange Twins Winery & Vineyards
Bold companies are Greater Stockton
Chamber of Commerce members
ITBQ Sponsors as of 8/3/11
Founding Sponsors:
Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce
PG&E
San Joaquin Partnership, Inc.
SJC Economic Development Association
Gold Sponsors:
Allied Waste Services
Builders Exchange of Stockton
Dorfman Pacific Co., Inc.
Pacific Records Management
Silver Sponsor:
United Way of San Joaquin
Bronze Sponsors:
Arturo Vera Photography
Premier Staffing
Proline Media
Roland Construction
San Joaquin HR Association
Stockton East Water District
Sutter Gould Medical Foundation
Utility Telephone
PORT CALL Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce15
47th Annual Industrial Technology BBQ By Justin Souza
Each of the companies profiled here, along with the eight other honorees, has helped raise the profile of San Joaquin County and helped Stockton back onto the road to recovery.
Linda Foth
and customer satisfaction.
AASC is being honored for a facility
improvement and expansion that
increased the size of the facility to over
270,000 square feet and totaled more than
$1 million in work. The business also
saw the addition of 61 new employees to
their Stockton-based workforce this year,
which raises their total employees to 370
highly qualified engineers, designers,
machinists, and technicians. This
expansion is only the latest in a series
of major expansions for the company
since 2000.
Dorfman Pacific
Dorfman Pacific
opened its doors in
Oakland, California
in 1921 as a small
cap manufacturing
company. The
company is currently headquartered
in a 315,000 square foot distribution
facility near the Stockton Airport. After
90 years in business, the present day
Dorfman Pacific is a multinational
powerhouse in the headwear industry
with manufacturing and distribution
facilities in Texas, Mexico and China and
more than 160 full-time employees.
In the last year, Dorfman Pacific has
added more than 20 full time positions
at their Stockton location as well as
making some significant environmental
improvements to their facility. With the
complete solar system newly installed
on the roof of its Stockton distribution
center, Dorfman Pacific is now supplying
as much as 85% of its own energy needs,
with solar power coursing through
everything from building lighting to hand
dryers to forklifts. The business is green-
minded at every level of production.
Whether it is reducing water usage
with waterless urinals, or recycling and
reusing boxes, Dorfman Pacific is doing
everything possible to reduce, reuse and
innovate in their industry.
Green Horizons Manufacturing LLC
Green Horizons
Manufacturing
develops and
manufactures unique,
modular, on-demand
structures that are
designed to fit the wide-ranging needs of
customers worldwide. These structures
can be utilized for everything from
emergency housing to secure storage
with minimal changes, and are designed
to be set securely on virtually any type of
topography as well as withstand a wide
variety of weather conditions.
Green Horizons was founded in 2007
in San Francisco and opened a substantial
manufacturing facility at the Port of
Stockton this year. From this facility,
Green Horizons’ innovative structures
can be quickly transported by truck, rail
or sea to locations locally and across
the globe. Green Horizons location in
Stockton includes a staff of 14 people
who manufacture and ship the company’s
revolutionary, patented building system
to customers including the US Marine
Corps and major international disaster
relief agencies.
Weber Logistics
Weber Logistics is
a leading third party
logistics and supply
chain management
provider that has
been in operation
in California for more than 86 years.
Founded in downtown Los Angeles in
1924, Weber now serves a long list of
well-known and respected companies
from their many locations continued on page 17
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47th Annual Industrial Technology BBQ By Justin Souza
Douglass Highsmith
James Pope
Phillip Gill
COVER STORY Cont’d from pg. 16
throughout the western US, including WalMart, Safeway, General
Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Topco, Storck, Hain, Ricola, California
Innovations, Scholastic Books and PPG Industries.
Weber opened its first Stockton distribution location in 2010 in
order to utilize the city’s substantial rail and surface transportation
infrastructure to put northern California and western Nevada
within easy reach. Now, less than a year later, Weber has opened
an additional location with more than 150,000 square feet of
useable space and hired a total of 15 warehousemen, 2 supervisors
and a new manager for the new facility. These hires bring their
employee count to 45 across their two Stockton locations.
Allied Waste
Allied Waste Services, a division of
Republic Services Inc., is a leading provider
of solid waste collection, transfer and
disposal services. The Company’s various
operating units are focused on providing
environmentally sound and cost effective
services to commercial, industrial, residential and municipal
customers. These services include construction debris, the
curbside collection of residential solid green and recyclable waste
and the provision of a variety of recycling services to commercial
and industrial customers.
Allied Waste Services operates the Forward Landfill on Austin
Road in Manteca, where the recent incorporation of a composting
facility created nine new jobs for the county. Each day, the new
composting site takes in 250 tons of green waste that is ground,
filtered and made into more than 75,000 yards of compost
annually. The composted material is available at your local home
improvement stores.
Each of the companies profiled here, along with the eight other
honorees, has helped raise the profile of San Joaquin County and
helped Stockton back onto the road to recovery. According to
Timm Quinn from the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce,
the event “is our way of recognizing and thanking these businesses
for choosing to invest in our community.” Their support in helping
to grow our local economy through job creation, tax revenues
and investment in the future of our community is essential to our
area’s success.
The 47th Annual Industrial Technology BBQ will begin at
5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 14 and will include a mixer,
a formal dinner and special profiles of each company honored.
Honorees will receive a plaque and proclamations of support from
local elected officials.
In addition to the 13 honored businesses, PG&E is also
presenting a Green Award to Lange Twins Winery & Vineyards
at the event.
PORT CALL Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce17
Ron Scatena
Programs Cont’d from pg. 10
New Stormwater Mandates to be Reviewed at the September 8 Manufacturers Industrial Distribution Roundtable (MIDR)
Where: CALAMCO Corporate Office, 1776 West March Lane,
Suite 220 in Stockton at 7:30 a.m.
Speaker: Condor Earth Technologies
The State of California under the State Water Resources Control
Board is mandating that municipalities and agencies in which you
do business must now inspect, prioritize and enforce Stormwater
Pollution Prevention Programs on those of you under these
categories. The cost will be totally on your business to implement
the Best Management Practices (BMPs) necessary to ensure that
no trash/debris or other pollutants leave your property and are
allowed to enter the stormdrain system. Business/Industries
under new mandates:
Agricultural chemical dealers, fertilizer/pesticide mixing •
facilities and green waste/compost facilities
Compost facilities•
Airplane repair, maintenance, fueling or cleaning•
Animal facilities/pet washing and veterinary facilities•
Automobile and other vehicle body repair or painting•
News BriefsSubmission Guidelines: News Briefs must be submitted before the first of each month to [email protected]. Please put “PORT O CALL” in the subject line. Submissions must be no longer than 50 words total and should include contact information. News Briefs will be included on a space available basis and may be edited for content.
Herum Named a Top Lawyer – For the sixth consecutive year,
Steve Herum has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer
by the prestigious Law & Politics Magazine. This selection was
made after surveying approximately 47,000 lawyers in Northern
California and represents a compilation of the top five percent.
Six years ago, the California State Bar Association’s California
Lawyer Magazine named Steve Herum Land Use Lawyer of the
Year. It is the only time that a Central Valley attorney has received
this statewide recognition.
The 2011-2012 United Way of San Joaquin County Campaign
Kick Off luncheon will take place at the Alex G. Spanos Center at
the University of the Pacific on Tuesday, September 13, 2011. For
more information and tickets contact Donna Ng at 209.320.6206