Nordson Corp. recently announced that President  and CEO Michael F. Hilton has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2013 award in the Public Company Category for the Northeast Ohio Region.

“On behalf of Nordson’s entire worldwide team, I’m honored to accept this award which recognizes the outstanding growth and sustained excellent performance of our company,” Hilton said. “Nordson’s continued success is the result of the hard work of our employees and is rooted in the strong leadership of several previous Nordson CEOs, including co-founder Eric Nord, whose encouragement of innovators and entrepreneurs was core to his vision of Nordson as a highly successful, venturesome company operating on the leading edge. Innovation remains at the heart of the value we provide to our customers today. This combination of entrepreneurship, innovation, steadfast core values, personal accountability and execution has enabled Nordson to outperform its peers over an extended period and generate record results for three consecutive years.” 

Hilton is reportedly now a contender for the National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Overall award, which will be announced in November.

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