Presidential "E" Award from the U.S. Government for "Outstanding Contribution to Export Expansion", 1974

Received the "Celebrate Literacy" award from the International Reading Association for the promotion of literacy for developing and proving a system by paying students to tutor other students and starting a foundation called Students For Other Students (SOS)

Winner of the “Master Entrepreneur Of The Year Award”, 1994, sponsored by Ernst & Young, Merrill Lynch, and Inc. Magazine

Honored at The Entrepreneur Of The Year Institute’s International Conference in Palm Springs, California, 1994

Received honor into Libbey High School’s Hall of Fame, 1994

Honored as one of “The Fifty Most Influential Business People in Northwest Ohio” by Business Venture Magazine, 1996

Received the “Horace Mann Award”, 1999 from the American Humanist Association, in recognition of philanthropic work funding student tutors in several public schools. (Other recipients of the award: Ted Turner, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Jonas E. Salk, Erich Fromm.)

Developed Lithium products to revolutionize U.S. glass plate industry by applying lithium to glass for electrochromics and new manufacturing devices for the glass industry. Received Distinguished Service Award from the University of Toledo

Received the “Patriot Award” from the U.S. Armed Air Forces for hiring Iraq and Vietnam war veterans and helped a Vietnam veteran buy a steel processing business, 2007

Received 2008 Ohio Governor’s Outstanding Exporting Award for Medium Size Manufacturing Business

Received Jefferson Awards’ Certificate of Excellence 2013 for Outstanding Community Service Developed by Jacqueline Kennedy and Senator Robert Taft, Sr. and Sponsored by the U.S. Government and promoted by The Toledo Blade newspaper