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April 16, 2007

Metal fabrication is a bright spot in Ore. manufacturing

  • What's driving the boom? Oregon's $1.3 billion bridge-renovation program, new condos in Portland and the aerospace industry.
    • By JONATHAN BRINCKMAN
    The Oregonian

    PORTLAND — Oregon's metal-fabrication factories — where welders and machinists make steel structures for bridges and metal components for the condominiums changing Portland's skyline — are approaching the record employment levels of the late 1990s.

    “It's wonderful,” Drew Park, president of Columbia Wire & Iron Works in Portland, said of the sustained boom. “Things are the most backlogged we've ever seen.”


     
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