W Industries received a $9.7 MEGA grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp (MEDC)for the following project. It is investing $36 million in Detroit to retrain its work force and expand it's presence in the aerospace, energy and defense markets.
W Industries, owned by Metal and Welding Industries, has traditionally been an auto company but is now expanding into aerospace, energy and other industry market sectors.
W Industries is looking to renovate one of its facilities in downtown Detroit and purchase a second facility by the second quarter of 2009.
This expansion will allow W Industries to fulfill an existing military contract for military material handling vehicles and add a gantry mill that will allow Metal and welding Industries to expand into aerospace and alternative energy.
It seems alternative energy is the way to go.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
$9.7 Million Grant Given to W Industries for Expansion
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4 comments:
Sounds like a wonderfull thing for Michigan. But if you don't have a friend who works at W, no job for you. How fair is that? nepotism at its best, what a waste of everyones tax dollars.
Anonymous,
Nepotism sounds like a serious accusation towards this company. What facts do you have to back this up showing where one would have to be related or a friend to an employee to be hired? If they are receiving government grant money, it seems that there would have to be some type of stipulations of fairness for use of that money.
I worked there for a year and a half and was let go without any verbal or written warnings, just spoke to a smiling boss in the morning and was let go that afternoon. Also, I can confirm there is nepotism at W.
Maybe someone in the news industry ought to check out this company to see if nepotism really exists, seeing that they received all of this money. Isn't MEDC a state department that issues out government money? I don't know if it is or not, but an accusation such as nepotism should raise some eyebrows. Anonymous, I don't know how far this will go as far as someone reading this, but I posted your comment.
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