Since Day 1, AES Industries has played a strong role in Tallassee. Although it’s served Tallassee since its creation, it has grown to serve several other areas of the country and serving a national customer base since day 1. It merged with Lennox nearly a year ago.
It all started in east Tallassee in 1988 with founders and Tallassee natives Ricky Benton and Lenard McGharr and moved to its current location on Highway 229 about 20 years ago. It’s now managed by Benton’s son Jason Benton since his father’s death.
“We had half the county shop, about 5,000 square feet when we started in east Tallassee,” Jason Benton said. “There were just three or four employees. Now we have grown to be almost 300 employees with manufacturing facilities like this in West Virginia, Texas and Nevada.”…