Economic
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Quarter 1, 2006:
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funded by Operation Oswego County Foundation, Inc. and our economic
development supporters.
Fulton Machinery Locates to Business Incubator
Facility in Schroeppel
Fulton Machinery, a manufacturer of machinery
components for the paper, film and foil-converting industries,
recently located its business in the Start-Up Facility (SUF) in
the Oswego County Industrial Park in the town of Schoeppel.
The
company is owned by Bernhard Plato and was formed in 2004. In addition
to a part-time design engineer, Fulton Machinery currently employs
three full-time employees who have more than 35 years of combined
experience in the design, supply, installation and start-up of
equipment for the paper, film and foil converting industry. Services
provided by the company include mechanical design/engineering,
manufacturing and field support service.
Fulton Machinery recently
formed a partnership with Circonix Technologies LLC, a systems
integrator in the web conveyance industry, to provide complete
electrical and mechanical solutions to its clients.
“As a
result of the Circonix partnership and the fact that business keeps
trending upward, we decided that we needed a solution for our manufacturing
and office space needs,” Plato said. “Because
many of our clients are from the southern United States, we could
have relocated the business to the Carolinas, but we wanted to
stay right here in this community. The SUF was the perfect solution
for us because of its central location and its proximity to major
highways.”
The 10,000 square-foot SUF is one of two
business incubator facilities managed by OOC and offers affordable
rental space for non-retail, industrial and service businesses.
The goal of the facilities is to help businesses grow during the
first few years with the intention of eventually moving out of
the building and into private commercial space. The Business Expansion
Center, OOC’s incubator facility
located in the city of Oswego, consists of about 10,000 square
feet of office space and 9,000 square feet of factory space and
a receiving dock.
“One of our primary goals is to promote
and develop strategic initiatives to compete for and attract new
manufacturing employers to the county,” said L. Michael Treadwell,
CEcD, executive director of OOC. “We are pleased to welcome
a growing manufacturer like Fulton Machinery to the Start-Up Facility.”
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Novelis
Provides “Top Boost” for
Fund Drive
Novelis was
the top economic development “booster” in
OOC’s 2005 annual fund drive, with a contribution of $10,000.
Topping
the next category of Corporate Boosters were: Brascan Power; Caraccioli
and Associates; Constellation Energy; Eastern Shore Associates;
Entergy Nuclear Northeast; Fulton Savings Bank; Hiscock and Barclay;
Huhtamaki Consumer Packaging; Key Bank of New York; NRG Energy
Inc.; National Grid; Oswego County National Bank; and Pathfinder
Bank, each contributing from $1,000 to $3,000.
Other supporters of the annual fund drive include:
Business Boosters: contributing between $500 and $999 were Birds Eye Foods; Black
Clawson; Broadwell Development; Paul A. Castaldo Inc.; The Fulton
Companies; International Wire; Laser Transit Ltd.; Oswego Wire
Inc.; Port of Oswego Authority; Scottish Inn & Suites;
and Sure-Lock Industries.
Associate Boosters: contributing between
$100 and $499 included Alcan Employees F.C.U.; Jack B. Alter, CPA;
Thomas Arctander Architects; Biospherix Ltd.; C&C Metal Fabrications
Inc.; C&S Engineers
Inc.; Caswell and Associates CPAs, P.C.; Century 21 Galloway Realty;
Steve Chirello Advertising; Community Bank, N.A.; Hosmer F. Culkin;
DKR Investments; DeWald Roofing; Empire Fresh-Cuts; Fulton Tool
Company Inc.; Giovanni Food Company Inc.; Dee C. Heckethorn; Majestic
Mold and Tool; Mirabito Development Inc.; Doren P. Norfleet, Esq.;
Oneida Lake Petroleum; Oswego County Business Magazine; Oswego
Growers & Shippers; Oswego Valley Insurance Agencies; QMP Enterprises
Inc.; Charles Rock Associates; Carol Rutledge; Paul W. Schneible,
CPA; Corte Spencer; Millard S. Sullivan; Thomas-Gatas, Inc.; The
Ultimate Edge; Vickery Insurance; Central Square Wal-Mart; and
Wiltsie Construction.
Other contributors included: Joseph and
Muriel Allerton; Associated Dental Arts of Oswego; David Hawthorne,
Esq.; Arthur E. Jones; Dr. Lakshman Prasad; Lou Pettinelli; Eugene
Saloga; Samuel J. Sugar, Esq.; and David Turner.
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Business Management Series To Begin
March 21
The Center for
Business and Community Development (CBCD) at SUNY Oswego will
host “Growth Through
Effective Leadership,” an
Allstate Business Management Series beginning Tuesday, March 21.
The series will convene weekly, each Tuesday, until April 18. All
sessions will be held from 6-9 p.m. in Rich Hall, room 118-A, on
the SUNY Oswego campus.
The series is geared toward entrepreneurs
who have been in business for at least two years and are interested
in growing their business.
Series presenters will include William
Hoosty, president of WRH Consulting Group; Peter Connell, training
and human resource development consultant; Kelly Sullivan, founder
of The Center for System Thinking and Innovation; Marcene Sonneborn,
business development and management consultant; Alex Grimshaw,
CEO of PPS International; Larry Perras, small business development
advisor with the Small Business Development Center at the CBCD;
and Fred Thomas, vice president and senior portfolio manager for
HSBC Bank.
The series schedule is as follows:
Tuesday,
March 21:
- Managerial Attitude: William Hoosty, 6-7
p.m.;
- Team Development and Management: William
Hoosty, 7-8 p.m.; and
- Communication Style: Peter Connell, 8-9
p.m.
Tuesday, March 28:
- Business Visioning: Kelly
Sullivan, 6-7 p.m.; and
- Strategic Planning: Marcene Sonneborn,
7-9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 4:
- Ethics Workshop: Alex Grimshaw, 6-9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 11:
- Entrepreneurial Spirit:
Larry Perras, 6-7 p.m.;
- Leadership Practice: business panel, 7-8:30
p.m.; and
- Trade Associations: speaker to be determined,
8:30-9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 18:
- Survey of Economic Issues:
Fred Thomas, 6-7:30 p.m.; and
- Guest Speaker: Allstate representative,
7:30-9 p.m.
Pre-registration is required. A registration
fee of $250 will be collected prior to the first session.
For more information or to register for the series, call the CBCD
at (315) 312-3492.
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OOC Business Assistance
Precision Wood Flooring
Products is a
new company that will manufacture high quality, pre-finished
flooring to be sold to national and international distributors.
The company will acquire the 200,000-square-foot former Jefferson-Smurfit
plant in the town of Volney. The project will create 54 jobs
and will receive funding assistance from the County of Oswego
Industrial Development Agency (IDA).
Ambulatory/Urgent Care
Center: Patsy M. Iannolo, M.D., Ph.D., P.C. will convert a former restaurant
facility in Fulton into medical offices including an urgent care
center. The center will provide acute evaluation and therapy for
ambulatory patients and will include X-ray and lab facilities.
The project will create 17 jobs and will receive funding assistance
from the IDA, Pathfinder Bank and the city of Fulton Community
Development Agency.
Huhtamaki Consumer
Packaging will acquire
equipment for its Ben & Jerry
expansion project and the warehouse optimization project at the
paper converting packaging plant in Fulton. The $2.7 million
project received funding assistance from the IDA and through
a New York State grant secured by Sen. James Wright. The project
will create 60 jobs.
The Captain’s Steak and Seafood
Restaurant will remodel and expand its location in the city of Oswego. The
project will create 11 jobs and will receive funding assistance
from the IDA and the city of Oswego Community Development Office.
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“Power for Progress” Program
a Success in 2005
One of OOC’s key goals last year was
to promote the Oswego County Public Utility Service’s “Power
for Progress” low-cost
electrical energy program for new and expanding businesses in Oswego
County. The goal of the program is to create jobs using low-cost
electricity produced by Entergy Nuclear Northeast at the James
A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba.
In 2005, 12 companies
were awarded over 1.8 megawatts of discounted power. OCPUS will
continue to allocate up to 10 megawatts of low-cost power at $32
per megawatt-hour per year until 2010. This low cost power allocation
is a unique incentive in upstate New York that could be structured
in economic development finance packages to expand and compliment
existing incentive programs such as the Empire Zone program, IDA
and SBA financing, and Empire State Development and National Grid
economic development funding programs.
OOC received a $10,000 grant
from National Grid’s Cooperative
Business Recruitment Economic Development Program to help promote
the “Power for Progress” program through local, regional
and national advertising.
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