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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

This past year, the PPL Foundation received an outpouring of
support from our local business community, led by our long-time
partner Tech Etch, located in Plymouth’s Industrial Park.

Tech-Etch is a proud sponsor of the Plymouth Public Library Foundation
and the Plymouth Public Library. We were delighted to have an
opportunity to interview VP of Engineering, Plymouth resident and
patron of the Library, Kerry Kearney about Tech-Etch and all the ways
they love their Library.

Q: As a company whose impact is in the medical, aerospace, defense
felt globally, why is it still important and energy sectors would not be
to act locally in this community? possible if libraries and schools didn’t
invest in and foster knowledge and
KK: As we’ve evolved into an education. Our Plymouth, Fall River
employee-owned company, I think and Litchfield, MN employees make
we’ve become especially community great things happen, and we’d never
conscious. Most of us that work be able to do that without a diverse
in Plymouth also call this town our learning community that developed
home. We’re the second largest our collective skills. At Tech Etch we
employer in Plymouth, and we’re like to say that we’re “innovating a
working really hard to make a better world, one part at a time”. We
difference and to demonstrate our can’t do this without institutions like
company values. Our employee schools and libraries, who, I think,
owners take pride in the small and “develop great minds, one person at
large things we do, from metal a time”.
plaques on the waterfront to long-
term support of the Beth Israel Q: Did you attend Taste of the
Deaconess’s medical imaging center. Town? What did you like about the
We also want our neighbors to know fundraiser?
that Tech Etch is a great place to
work. KK: I couldn’t make it this year, but
I’ve attended at least a dozen times.
Q: What connects a public library This event is exciting because you
to defense, engineering, energy, can really feel the community ties.
and your other lines of work? Plymouth has lots of great events
that draw huge crowds, like the
KK: Among other things, the public waterfront festival and the parade,
library represents the shared body of but Taste of the Town feels much
knowledge of our society. The high more intimate. Almost all attendees
tech work we’ve been doing at Tech are fully engaged locals and the
Etch is built on the bedrock of that vendors are genuinely excited to
body of knowledge. The work we do connect with them.

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