Column: With firefighting helicopter refill pump, Plano company can claim ‘coolest thing made in Illinois’

Column: With firefighting helicopter refill pump, Plano company can claim ‘coolest thing made in Illinois’

MTH Pumps, which makes its products in a non-descript metal building in Plano, may not sound like that cool of a company. But the aerial firefighting helicopter refill pump that’s produced there has just been named “The Coolest Thing Made in Illinois,” an award presented recently by Gov. JB Pritzker during a ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield, which was hosted by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association and sponsored by Comcast Bus…