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Pittsburg factory is no pipe dream.

Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
Publication Date: 03-NOV-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Tom Abate; Chronicle Staff Writer

Sparks flew at a new factory in Pittsburg on Monday, where a skeleton manufacturing crew christened a state-of-the art assembly line designed to shape and weld massive steel pipes used to transport oil and natural gas.

Everything about the new United Spiral Pipe plant is gargantuan, starting with the $130 million capital investment required to build a factory that will create 120 manufacturing jobs.

At a time when the Bay Area has been losing factory jobs, as exemplified by the looming shutdown of the New United...

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