International Propeller Service Selected as Export Business of the Year

International Propeller Service has been named the 2016 Export Business of the Year by the Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC). The awards were presented formally during a luncheon March 17 at the Capitol in Lincoln attended by 21 senators from the Unicameral, including Senator Matt Hansen representing District 26.

NBDC awards the Export Business of the Year annually to a Nebraska business that is successful in selling and delivering products or services internationally.

From Argentina to Egypt and Denmark to South Africa, International Propeller Service has shipped to customers around the world. Bob Finke, managing partner, says the company has sold parts and overhauled airplane propellers for clients in 43 countries since April 2012. This service is complicated and time consuming. The shop must be certified by the FAA and every part used must be traceable to an approved vendor. “An overhaul is a job that takes 40 hours, minimum,” he says. “There are only 30 shops in the country that do this kind of work.”

In 2016, the Nebraska Business Development Center provided business analysis, training and consulting to 2,187 businesses throughout Nebraska resulting in more than $398.9 million in cumulative economic impact for the state.

NBDC is a cooperative program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Learn more about NBDC and the 2016 Business Award winners at nbdc.unomaha.edu/about/annual_report_2016.pdf.