Drew Taylor It’s no accident why Amerex arrived in Trussville. That’s how Ned Paine, co-founder of the fire extinguisher manufacturer, described it to The Birmingham News back in March 1971, just eight months before the company officially opened its headquarters along Gadsden Highway. “We found a friendliness and a heart here that just isn’t evident anywhere else,” Paine said. Now, 55 years later, the company still calls Trussville home, employi…
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