{"id":7139,"date":"2012-06-06T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2012-06-06T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:57:41","slug":"connecticut-lures-okc-chemical-firm-with-3m-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/06\/connecticut-lures-okc-chemical-firm-with-3m-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut \u2018Lures\u2019 OKC Chemical Firm With $3M Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7141\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Tronox's Oklahoma City headquarters.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/tronox.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7141\" title=\"Tronox\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/tronox-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Provided \/ Tronox Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tronox&#39;s Oklahoma City headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma City chemical firm Tronox is relocating its corporate headquarters to Stamford, Conn., a move company and state officials there say will create 100 jobs over three years.<\/p><p>The company \u2014 which produces titanium dioxide, a white\u00a0pigment commonly used in paint and various coatings \u2014 will retain some officies in OKC,\u00a0Connecticut Gov. Daniel P. Maloy said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ct.gov\/malloy\/cwp\/view.asp?Q=505532&A=4010\">statement<\/a>.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Connecticut offered Tronox a $3 million loan with discount rates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/business\/hc-tronox-moves-hq-to-connecticut-20120605,0,5099319.story\">reports<\/a> the <em>Hartford Courant<\/em>&#8216;s Mara Lee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first $2 million would be forgiven if 60 full-time jobs were established in the first year, and the entire loan would be forgiven if the company sustained 100 jobs for three years.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Tronox filed for bankruptcy in 2008, and emerged from restructuring last year. &#8220;The company was spun off from\u00a0<a title=\"Kerr-McGee Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/keysearch\/?er=1&CANONICAL=Kerr-McGee+Corporation&CATEGORY=COMPANY\">Kerr-McGee<\/a>\u00a0in 2005,&#8221; <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s Paul Monies reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City chemical firm Tronox is relocating its corporate headquarters to Stamford, Conn., a move company and state officials there say will create 100 jobs over three years.The company \u2014 which produces titanium dioxide, a white\u00a0pigment commonly used in paint and various coatings \u2014 will retain some officies in OKC,\u00a0Connecticut Gov. Daniel P. Maloy said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[381],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}