By Alan Stewart on The Corydon Democrat
If there's a way anything can be done just a little bit better, Forrest Lucas will figure it out.
Last week, Lucas was joined by local dignitaries and some of his employees at the 350,000-square-foot Lucas Oil Plant 2 — the former Tower Automotive site in the Harrison County Business Park — as a ribbon was cut to announce the multi-million-dollar renovation of the site and to introduce an intricate oil viscosity modifier/improver that's already up and running.
Lucas Oil founder and owner, Forrest Lucas, left, is joined by Harrison County Economic Development Corp. director Darrell Voelker and David Lett, CEO of Harrison REMC, at the ribbon cutting for a multi-million-dollar oil viscosity modifier and grand opening of a second Lucas Oil warehouse location in the Harrison County Business Park last week. Photo by Alan Stewart
"We were buying about a train car-load (of the altered oil) a week, and we wondered if we could make it ourselves. We looked into it and found out that we could and got things going from there," Lucas said. "The company that installed this machine, Silverson, said they wanted to make this a model of how it could be and show it off to the world to other prospective buyers. They did it right."
