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Superior Battery hosts community open house and Chamber By Linda Waggener Superior Battery hosted members of the Russell County Chamber of Commerce at its main campus, 2515 Hwy 910, Russell Springs, KY for lunch and tours of the plant. The company also held a community open house earlier in the day, June 19, 2018, for the public. Lunch, catered by Sonny's BBQ of Somerset, was served in the "Superior Battery University" room where "intense day and a half training sessions" take place regularly for employees and for all customers who wish to take advantage of it. In comments before the plant tour, company founder Randy Hart said, "if young entrepreneurs wanted one word to guide them, it's perseverance. That's the main thing in getting a company going." Hart talked about his job as a tool and dye man 35 years ago, thinking about the possibility of making batteries and how he cut one open and how that worked out for him. He decided he could make one. He said in his first lean years he asked Jim Ramsey president of Mutual Federal for a loan to build a battery making business and, in a kind way the banker explained that he had nothing to loan against, no collateral. Hart said two weeks later he stopped in again and Ramsey asked if anything had changed. Hart said he told the bank president, "no, but I thought I'd stop by and see if you'd changed." Again on visits two, three, and four, every two weeks, asking for the loan each time, he was still given the same kind reply, no collateral, no possibility of a loan. Hart thinks it may have been on visit five, President Ramsey told him that with his persistence he just might make it and he gave him the loan. The rest is history. From there, with that first backing, working in his dad's garage next door to the main plant, Superior Battery has grown into today's huge operation providing 163 jobs in Russell County, building and shiping batteries all over the world. There's a second location just down the road from the main plant and a $7 million expansion is getting underway there now with more jobs to come. This story was posted on 2018-06-20 00:27:16
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