Business View Magazine | March 2019

213 vocational school and we provide funding for them for automation, robotics technology, welding, programmable logic controllers, and things of that nature, so that we can get kids moving into the manufacturing realm, as well. “And then Rose has a program called Rose-Hul- man Ventures, which is a for-profit, prototype process in improvement and development, and we offer the opportunity to do that on our dime. For example, Knauf Insulation, which is one of our larger employers, when they went from a formaldehyde-based binder to a glu- cose-based binder, Rose Ventures helped them develop that technology and now, when they are making fiberglass, on some days, it smells like cotton candy instead of formaldehyde in Shelbyville.” According to DeBaun, helping to make Shelbyville sustainable is part of the city’s agenda – creating a 21st century environment for its 21st century workforce. “We just part- nered with a company called POET Biofuels,” he recounts. “The city and the county came