Category: Economy
Part I–An Era Comes to an End Once upon a time in the early 1950s, Westinghouse Electric decided to put a vacuum tube manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Bath. By the early 1980s, Philips North America decided to buy the facility–and the concentration had long ago moved from tubes to specialty lighting applications. When they ABANDONED the site and…
Have you ever driven past the Upstate Niagra cheese plant on I-86 by the Campbell exit and seen the “torch” burning in the back? This is done to process gasses produced when the waste products of the plant are ‘digested’ and made safe to discharge. Large landfills that have been capped also produce large quantities of methane gas (among others)…
LP Corp., mainly doing business as LP Building Solutions (Louisiana-Pacific) will construct a new $24 million, 74-acre manufacturing plant in Bath. As planned, it will be located in the old Steuben County Industrial Park on SR54. The company plans to build its new LP® SmartSide® ExpertFinish® at the Bath pre-finishing facility. The company will receive its raw exterior home siding stock…
Since the announcement earlier this year that Amazon was planning to locate a new distribution center in the old Mercury Aircraft building, this writer has taken a great interest in following the development–and the possibilities that this could mean for our community. Imagine my puzzlement when one month turned into another, then another, and nothing seemed to happen. It seemed…
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