DANBURY – The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce has named Bethel-based Deltron Precision Inc. President Ralph McIntosh its 2024 Cecil J. Previdi Award recipient.
McIntosh, of Newtown, has worked for Deltron the past 35 years having taken over his father’s business and turning it into a global company for the past 25 years. The company produces linear slides used in medical analyzing and testing machines, semiconductor and electronic chip processing equipment, printers, lasers.
A 1968 graduate of Immaculate High School in Danbury, McIntosh has contributed to Greater Danbury communities. According to the high school’s website, some of the organizations he has helped include the United Way, where he served as a council member and on its Resource Development Committee for over a decade; the Danbury Hospital Development Fund and for the Danbury War Memorial. He was a major supporter of the Hanahoe Memorial Children’s Clinic and the Boy Scouts of America, receiving the Greater Danbury Good Scout Award, and earning the Old Timers Athletic Association Award for his support of area sports.
Also, he is on the board of the Savings Bank of Danbury (now Ives Bank) and member of its Executive, Loan and Audit Committee. He is also a past board member and chair of the Board of the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce and a member of the chamber’s Cecil J. Previdi Award Committee.
The award is named after Cecil J. Previdi, the former president of Danbury Printing & Lito that became Banta. Through his leadership and guidance, he restructured his family business, relocated it to Danbury and grew it into a $20 million organization. In 1987, he and five others from his company were killed in a plane crash in Wisconsin. Nominees for the award are limited to entrepreneurs from Greater Danbury who embody the spirit of Previdi.
Previous recipients of the award include Gary Hawley, president of Hawley Construction Corp. (2023); Lucie Voves, founder and CEO of Church Hill Classics (2022); and Stew Leonard Jr., president and CEO of Stew Leonard’s (2010).
The chamber will honor McIntosh Dec. 13 at its annual Previdi Award and State of the City at the Amber Room Colonnade, 1 Stacey Road in Danbury. The luncheon takes place from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For information about tickets or sponsorships, contact jessica@danburychamber.com or call (203) 743-5565.
