{"id":7844,"date":"2012-07-09T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2012-07-09T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:04:48","slug":"asco-aerospace-expansion-means-hundreds-of-jobs-in-stillwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/07\/09\/asco-aerospace-expansion-means-hundreds-of-jobs-in-stillwater\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCO Aerospace Expansion Means Hundreds of Jobs in Stillwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7845\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Belgian aerospace manufacturer AESCO is expanding into the former MerCrusier plant in Stillwater.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/07\/aesco-location.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7845\" title=\"Aesco Location\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/07\/aesco-location-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Provided<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belgian aerospace manufacturer ASCO is expanding into the former MerCrusier plant in Stillwater.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>A Belgian aerospace manufacturer is opening a new plant in Stillwater.<\/p><p>ASCO, which makes components for aircraft designed large manufacturers like Airbus and Boeing, is expanding in Oklahoma because it&#8217;s centrally located and has an existing aerospace industry, <a href=\"http:\/\/kosu.org\/2012\/07\/stillwater-hits-international-stage-with-new-company\/\">reports KOSU&#8217;s Michael Cross<\/a>.<\/p><p>Stillwater Mayor John Bartley is hopeful that Oklahoma State University students will have opportunities to work with ASCO, and company officials say they&#8217;ll likely hire machinists, engineers, assemblers and inspectors from Stillwater&#8217;s Meridian Technology Center, KOSU reports.<\/p><p><!--more-->The company will invest $60 million initially, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newson6.com\/story\/18980342\/aerospace-company-to-open-plant-in-stillwater\">the Associated Press reports<\/a>. The second phase could include $30 million to $40 million in capital investments,<\/p><p>As many as 250 people could find jobs in the first round of hiring, which starts in September. An additional 250-350 jobs could be added over the next few years, KOSU reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CEO of the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce says many of the jobs will be hired locally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belgian aerospace manufacturer is opening a new plant in Stillwater.ASCO, which makes components for aircraft designed large manufacturers like Airbus and Boeing, is expanding in Oklahoma because it&#8217;s centrally located and has an existing aerospace industry, reports KOSU&#8217;s Michael Cross.Stillwater Mayor John Bartley is hopeful that Oklahoma State University students will have opportunities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[372,402],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844"}],"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=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7851,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}