Helios Technologies has its headquarters in Sarasota but employs workers worldwide, and when they heard Hurricane Milton was aiming for the Gulf Coast, colleagues from around the country wanted to help.
“They immediately after the storm started pulling together emergency supplies and getting them on trucks,” says Tania Almond, vice president of investor relations and corporate communication for Helios, which has more than 2,700 employees across the globe.
Food, drinks, paper towels, dog and cat food, sheets, towels and baby items began flowing in to Sarasota to assist Helios employees who may have lost their belongings in the hurricane.
The first shipments arrived on Oct. 14, in time for the reopening of the company’s two Sun Hydraulics manufacturing plants in Manatee County the following day. Sun Hydraulics makes hydraulic cartridge valves for Helios, and Almond says it employs 600 to 700 people locally…