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Continental Structural Plastics a division of Tejin, and
Helena Chemical Company a division of Marubeni.
“The list of FDI projects in Huntington County is
impressive, especially for a small market like ours,”
added Wickersham, who is completing his 11th year
as the executive director for the Huntington County
Economic Development Corporation. “We’ve taken
our lumps too as most of the world has heard about
the transition of manufacturing from the local UTEC
plant, however, the world really hasn’t heard about
the growth in UTEC’s local engineering team. It’s
very impressive,” he remarked.
The industrial projects in Huntington County are
complimented by numerous community quality of life
development projects in 2018. Airport expansion,
downtown revitalization projects, vocational education
efforts, park enhancements, and the completion
of recent transportation corridor projects like the
$30 million connector from U.S. 24 to I-69, the
$5.2 million Etna Avenue corridor project in the
City of Huntington and the opening of the $1.7
H un t i n g t o n A lum i n um million Archbishop Noll Parkway on Huntington’s
east gateway corridor, and miles of new multi-use
trails, demonstrate a quiet tenacity in this County
which very simply sums up why the title of the April
economic development efforts in Huntington County, Golfo di Napoli joins other FDI investors such as, article was “Getting It Done.” It’s evidence of how
Indiana. The April issue of this magazine used the Brazil’s Gerdau Steel Corporation, Canadian-based hard work rooted in quiet tenacity, continues to
title, “Getting it Done” when describing the success Onward Manufacturing Company, French-based produce impressive results in Huntington County,
of Huntington County’s economic development team. Schneider Corporation, German-based Bendix Indiana, USA.
And foreign direct investments have appreciated Commercial Vehicle Systems, and Japanese-based
these “Huntington traits” as well.
The State of Indiana recently announced the addition Mark Wickersham
of Italy’s Golfo di Napoli company to the list of FDI Executive Director
projects in Huntington. The company plans to develop Huntington County Economic Development
a $9.5 million facility, creating 35 new jobs on a
development site in southern Huntington County.
8 West Market Street Huntington, IN
The location had long been a dream of the local 467509
planning community, however, it took a collaboration Office: 260-356-5688
of local, County and State efforts to designate the
location as an Indiana PRIME Certified Site. That Email: mark@hcued.com
designation drew the attention of the development Website: http://www.hcued.com
world to the potential possibilities for the location.
“The project was announced almost exactly one
year after Indiana’s Lt. Governor, Suzanne Crouch,
came to Huntington County to announce the site
as ready for development,” said Mark Wickersham,
executive director of the Huntington County Economic Ne w S u s p en s ion B r i d g e
Development Corporation.
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