The electrical/mechanical contractor who helped build the factory in 1986, bid on and received the contract for disconnection, skidding and shipping the equipment in 2003. They had already developed and demonstrated expertise in factory closures by that time. They did lay off some in the mid-2000s, but seemed to recoup that when they got into traffic control, commercial networking, fiber optics and so forth. That particular locally owned company seems to roll with the punches rather well.
The trucking company that moved the machines was able to get the contract to transport the discs produced into the US.
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I wanted to add that this closure left several hundred without a good paying benefited job. Many of them went to school under the Trade Act and received unemployment benefits for a full two years as well as a tax credit much like Obamacare to help with insurance. The big trouble with the Trade Act benefits was that the training available was for jobs that didn't exist. In many cases the training for available jobs would take more than two years because things like HVAC tech, automobile repair, etc. were no longer two year programs. They had become an apprenticeship plus school programs which took four years.
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