Native American-owned
Ojibway Industrial
Opens for Business

Ecorse — Ojibway Industrial LLC www.ojibwayindustrial.com, a Native American-owned company, opened for business in April, doing erection of structural steel and miscellaneous iron. The new company, which recently joined the Great Lakes Fabricators & Erectors Association, has been certified as a Minority Business Enterprise by the Michigan Minority Business Development Council. It currently is completing work on a project for Walbridge Aldinger Co. at the Compuware headquarters' construction site in downtown Detroit, and it also has been approved by Ford Motor Co. as a Tier I supplier.

Paul Bresette, a member of the Bad River Band of Chippewas of northern Wisconsin, is president and majority owner of the new company. Other principals include Don Makins and Al Green, president and executive vice president, respectively, of MBM Fabricators & Erectors, Romulus. MBM Fabricators is a long-time customer of Ojibway Inc., which Bresette has owned for 20 years. Ojibway Inc., which does sandblasting and painting of structural steel and miscellaneous iron, is sharing its 20,000 square foot plant in Ecorse with the new company. Bresette also is current vice president of the national Native American Business Alliance www.native-american-bus.org, based in Bingham Farms.