Jim Gessner

Originally from western New York State, disabled Vietnam Veteran Jim Gessner, majored in Business Administration at State University of New York at Alfred. He worked in Production Control at Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation in Dansville, NY and worked with Howard Perrine from Shop Management. In 1985, with the energy field decline, Jim was laid off. Perrine had left Foster Wheeler in 1980. Jim then moved to Illinois to be an Assistant General Governor at the International Headquarters of the Loyal Order of Moose at Mooseheart, IL. Five years later while shopping at a local mall, Jim and his wife ran into his previous colleague Howard and his wife. After eight years apart since Foster, the two got together to compare notes. Perrine had this idea for an Automatic Recycling System for high rise buildings and offered Jim a position in his start-up company, and thus, Nu-Recycling Technology, Inc. was born. The rest, as they say, is history!