ILION, NY --(AmmoLand.com)- Freedom Group’s COO, Joseph B. Gross, today announced that the Remington Arms facility in Ilion, New York, will add 100 manufacturing jobs as it relocates certain production from its Marlin factory in North Haven Connecticut. The 194-year-old Ilion Firearms Plant, which is the Mohawk Valley’s largest employer and the nation’s longest continuous manufacturer, will receive $5.9 million in building improvements, equipment and machinery investment over the next two years. The project will be supported with $1.5 million in grants from the Empire State Development Corporation, $200,000 in 2010 electricity cost subsidies, and the New York State Office of Community Renewal has earmarked a $750,000 New York State Community Development Block Grant for the project.
Or, is this expansion in addition to? Regardless, they should be moving out of, instead of expanding in, this state.
The Marlin acquisition and "expansion" has been something of a disaster so far, but maybe another $20M would fill that particular hole if they don't tamp it down too hard.
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