Coining Wins New Good Neighbor Award

NJBIA President Philip Kirschner (left) presents Gary Holcomb, CEO of Coining, with 2011 New Jersey New Good Neighbor Award.
 
April 5, 2011

The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) has selected Coining, Inc.'s new Montvale headquarters and manufacturing facility to receive the association's prestigious 2011 New Good Neighbor Award. This award is presented annually to New Jersey companies who have recently built outstanding commercial or industrial buildings, improving the economy as well as the landscape of New Jersey.

"Coining is honored to be recognized as a new good neighbor in Montvale and the state of New Jersey," remarks Gary Holcomb, Coining's CEO. "We are thrilled with our new facility in Montvale which we moved into in October of 2010. Many of our customers and vendors have told us that Coining has the most physically impressive manufacturing facility they have ever seen."

Coining assembled an experienced team of professionals to complete the interior build-out of its new building at 15 Mercedes Drive in Montvale. SNS Architects & Engineers, PC (www.sns-arch-eng.com) of Montvale served as the architect, Sweetwater Construction Corp. (www.sweetwatercorp.com) from Cranbury was the general contractor, TMG Engineering Inc. (www.tmg-engr.com) in Edison performed the detailed engineering design and The Walsh Company (www.walshcompany.com) in Morristown supported Coining as a project consultant. The Walsh Company also oversaw a complete renovation of the building's exterior in 2007 under the director of the building's owner, The Hampshire Companies (www.hampshireco.com), also located in Morristown.


From left, Roger Fife (Mayor of Montvale, NJ), Gary Holcomb (CEO, Coining), John Lignos (Principal, SNS Architects & Engineers, PC) and Lorin Sonenshine (Principal, SNS Architects & Engineers, PC).

Coining was nominated for the NJBIA's 2011 New Good Neighbor Award by Roger Fyfe, the mayor of Montvale. NJBIA's panel of judges selected award winners on the basis of economic benefit/job creation, architectural merit and community involvement. In all, eleven companies including Coining were chosen for the 2011 award from a much larger pool of nominees who collectively were responsible for $1.7 billion in new investment, over 8,000 jobs and a commitment to the economic and civic well-being of New Jersey.

The New Jersey Business & Industry Association is an employer association providing services and advocacy for its members to build a more prosperous New Jersey. With nearly 22,000 member companies, NJBIA is the nation's largest state-level employer association. NJBIA has been presenting its New Good Neighbor Award annually for fifty-one consecutive years.

Coining, Inc. is the largest manufacturer of gold tin, pure gold and other solder preforms and brazing preforms worldwide and a leading producer of gold, copper and silver bonding wire, aluminum bonding wire and ribbon, solder wire, jumper chips, bonding pads, tabs, heat sinks, lead frames, solder spheres and cover assemblies for microelectronics packaging and assembly. The company manufactures products at its facilities in Montvale, New Jersey, USA; Penang, Malaysia; and Casablanca, Morocco, maintains a workforce of 200 employees worldwide and supplies more than 1,000 customers in over thirty countries.

For more information about Coining, please visit www.coininginc.com or email sales@coininginc.com.


Manufacturing area in Coining's Montvale, NJ facility