{"id":8454,"date":"2012-08-01T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2012-08-01T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:56:40","slug":"hundreds-of-new-jobs-and-another-doomed-plant-in-stillwater-is-filled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/01\/hundreds-of-new-jobs-and-another-doomed-plant-in-stillwater-is-filled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of New Jobs, and Another Doomed Plant in Stillwater is Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial fabricator Total Energy is expanding into Stillwater, a move expected to bring hundreds of new jobs to the area by the end of 2013.<\/p><p>Total Energy \u2014 which makes storage tanks, high-pressure vessels and other products for industrial and utility customers \u2014 will move into the\u00a0Quad\/Graphics plant, which is slated for closure this year.<\/p><p>This is the second manufacturer this month to announce expansion plans in Stillwater. Belgian aerospace company <a href=\"http:\/\/kosu.org\/2012\/07\/stillwater-hits-international-stage-with-new-company\/\">ASCO is moving in<\/a>, too, and will start hiring up to 250 workers in September. ASCO is also making use of a doomed manufacturing facility, the Mercury Marine plant, which closed down last December.<\/p><p><!--more-->Total Energy&#8217;s Stillwater location will become the company&#8217;s new engineering and construction division, and serve as its new corporate office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stwnewspress.com\/local\/x328559759\/Total-Energy-promises-200-jobs-in-Stillwater\">reports<\/a> the <em>Stillwater NewsPress<\/em>. Company officials say 100 additional jobs are likely to be added by 2015. The company has about 100 employees and is currently headquartered in North Salem, N.Y.<\/p><p>CEO Robert Armentano\u00a0praised the &#8220;strong engineering program&#8221; at\u00a0Oklahoma State University, where it&#8217;s planning to help build and fund a research program, reports\u00a0<em>The NewsPress<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStillwater and the state of Oklahoma are business friendly with strong ties to the oil and gas industry, as well as they offer a quality workforce and convenient location to many of Total Energy\u2019s customers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial fabricator Total Energy is expanding into Stillwater, a move expected to bring hundreds of new jobs to the area by the end of 2013.Total Energy \u2014 which makes storage tanks, high-pressure vessels and other products for industrial and utility customers \u2014 will move into the\u00a0Quad\/Graphics plant, which is slated for closure this year.This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[240,413],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454"}],"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=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}