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Batching Systems’ Don Wooldridge passes away

Donald “Don” Wooldridge, co-founder and President of Batching Systems, Inc., passed away February 20, 2012.

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A businessman and entrepreneur, he held more than a dozen patented designs.  He co-founded the company with his wife Beverly in 1989.  An automation machinery manufacturing company, Batching Systems, Inc. began as a home-based business that has expanded to its current location in the Calvert Industrial Park in Barstow, MD.

 

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