DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
16 comments:
I know,it's our election to lose,or whatever.
What plant?
This economy does not seem to be improving at all. Joe can you provide us with a list of all the businesses that have closed.
When is Maryland going to get that our state in not business friendly?
Greed is running businesses away!
Labinal the place next to the civic center is closing.
12:49, I have heard NOTHING about that.
Labinal is not leaving until 2017. the announcement was made to the staff about that.
They pay well, also a big loss for Salisbury.
Standard Register is a dying industry...it was bound to happen soon enough. It's due to technology and the digital age. They sold to the stone age.
They announced it yesterday will close by the 3rd quarter July or S start lay offs mid April
There was no announcement to staff about Labinal leaving in 2017. Some of you crack me up.
S.R. employees voted in union couple years ago in a close vote. Certainly was a factor in closing decision I bet
Just another nail in the coffin that is the eastern shore...... The real bad times are coming and most of you people have no clue...
I know this posting is a few days old but I'll leave a comment anyway about K & L Microwave which has been in business over 30 years. Having been employed there the last 23 years I have seen our business succeed though low points and come out strongly profitable and continue to grow. In the last 5 years we have declined in profitability but still maintained a healthy future earnings outlook. The last 24 months I have seen cutbacks in staff. Cuts is production supply's. Building maintenance has been reduced to where our facility looks sad at best. This was a once thriving company and now all we hear from management is what we're not doing right with the little we have to do it with. We have stacks of test equipment too old to fix and too expensive to replace. We recently switched production suppliers(they supply hardware, razor blades, production aids, etc) all made in China and all the bare minimum in quality. Junk. The outlook for us is grim at this point. Our main source of purchase orders were coming from military contractors. You can imagine what has happened to that demand under Obama. Most of our purchase orders now are commercial(which means low profitability) and overseas reps. If our mother company wants to see us continue. There is no way we can hit any kind of acceptable profitability in the state of Maryland with the average revenue we're generating. None. Not to mention the added burden of being in Wicomico County. For us the writing is on the wall.
One of the main issues plaguing this area is simply a lack of qualified people to do the work. I work at one of the Industrial Parkway companies and not a single manager or engineer is from this area. I am a member of the Salisbury Chapter/ American Society For Quality and through this organization know others in this type of field that say the same thing. The lack of quality engineering types of education in this area plays a part. Wor Wic can barely get enough students to fill its technology classes. Salisbury University has the Physics program with some basic engineering classes thrown in, but it is has no engineering school. I am not talking down to someone that finishes with a Physics degree, but they aren't engineers. UMES has an engineering school, but I have only met a handful of graduates. If you want to build a thriving community that can attract quality companies to invest in building an operation in this area you have to be able to show that they won't have to import their entire workforce from somewhere else. This area has more than enough doctors, lawyers and nurses.
7:54-So let me get this straight;one aquires the skills of which you speak and then goes to work at a company in the Industrial Parkway for squat?
Post a Comment