Ideal Manufacturing & Sales Corporation   is pleased to announce the winner of their first annual "Sales Associate of the Year" award, Mr. Oner M. Onergil of Alpha Engineered Process Equipment, St. Louis, MO.  The award is based on the total number of individual sales, total dollar volume of products sold and the representative's quality of communication with the customers and Ideal from October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2004.

Mr. Onergil was born in Turkey.  He moved to the United States in the early seventies working for a chemical distributor and specialty packaging company in St. Louis.

In 1991, Mr. Onergil started his own marketing company, Alpha Engineered Process Equipment.  Alpha represents many manufacturers offering a variety of products such as liquid filling machines, packaging systems, mixers and dispersers.   Alpha services the paint, ink, specialty coatings, adhesives and pharmaceutical manufacturers in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Southern Illinois.  He has been representing Ideal Manufacturing & Sales Corporation since 1988.