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Pennsylvania BY KRIC CARLSON A Pennsylvania-based firm that makes fasten ers for the defense and aerospace industries plans to move its manufacturing operation to the Lcland Industrial Park, where it will build a S2 million factory and hire more than 50 local workers. The company, QRP Inc. of Williamsport, Pa., plans to close down its factory there and begin operation in Lcland by April, 1994, according to Tom Monks, executive director of the Brunswick County Economic Development Commission. At the county commissioners' meeting Mon day, Monks was authorized to apply for S45.575 in N.C. Industrial Building Renovation Fund grants to extend water and sewer service to the 6.2-acrc site where QRP plans to construct a 30,000-squarc-foot building. All but "three or four" of the 50 to 60 em ployees at the new plant will be hired locally through the N.C. Employment Security Com mission, Monks said, flic company will be seek ing skilled machinists, machine operators, labor ers and support personnel to include engineers, supervisors and accounting and clerical staff. Training for the new jobs will be offered on site and through Brunswick Community College at its industrial park training centcr. Monks said. The company's name is an acronym for the "quick release pins" it manufactures primarily for large aerospace and defense contractors such as the Boeing, Grumman and McDonnell Douglas. "These products have been used regularly in 50 NEW JOBS Fastener Firm military applications and arc now eagerly being sought out for many commercial uses," Monks told the commissioners. In addition to their use in the aircraft industry, the pins are frequently employed on farming equipment and wheel chairs. Monks said QRP al so takes special orders for customers that need quick release pins for other applications. Contacted at the company's home office in Williamsport on Tuesday, QRP General Manager William Baker said he could not discuss plant op erations or comment about the move to Leland. "It hasn't been announced here," Baker said. He directed inquiries to QRP President Tom Kievit at the company's "sales officc" in New Jersey. There was no answer Tuesday morning at the telephone number given. Bob Raleigh, business editor at the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, said Tuesday that QRP is a "very quiet and private" company that has been a "good, stable and reserved" corporate citi zen since it opened a plant there in the mid 1980s. He said the company is probably one of sev eral Finns that have entered into lease purchase agreements with the Lycoming Industrial Pro perties Corp., a development arm of the local chamber of commerce. If so, Raleigh speculated that QRP may have decided not to purchase its fa cility when the lease expires. Although Monks would not reveal the loca tion of the QRP factory slated for closure, he said Plans Factory the company had decided not to purchase a build ing it was leasing for a factory in Pennsylvania. Telephone directory assistance in Pennsyl vania has only two listings for QRP Inc., one in Williamsport and one in Stcelton, a suburb of Harnsburg. The Stcelton number connected calls to a telephone answering service where a repre sentative said she had knowledge of a Tom Kievit or a William Baker. A business reporter at the Hanisburg Patriot News said the paper's library shows no record of a QRP factory in Stcelton. Raleigh said that QRP's Williamsport opera tion employs about 50 non-union workers. If the plant closes, it will be the latest of several manu facturers who have left the area, mostly lured to locations that offering lower wage, he said. The new factory will be the ninth tenant at the Lcland Industrial Park. Monks said machine in dustries like QRP are "the most active type of projects" of those the EDC is trying to attract to the area. He said QRP's choice of Brunswick County was "a direct result" of a like decision by one of the area's newest industries, the HSM Machine Works in Phoenix. HSM is also a machine shop operation that supplies parts for the aircraft indus try. A 512,000 study recently completed for the EDC lists fabricated metal operations as one of the seven manufacturing industries most likely to locate in Brunswick County. NRC, CP&L Will Discuss Second Unit Restart Restart of Unit 1 of the Bruns wick Nuclear Plant was the subject of a meeting set today (Thursday) at 1 p.m. between Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials and Carolina Power & Light management at the plant in Southport. The meeting is open to observa tion by the public, with NRC offi cials available afterward to answer questions. As of Tuesday CP&L spokesman Mac Harris said CP&L's schedule calls for beginning the restart pro cess Thursday, Sept. 23. Following a "slow and deliberate" process similar to that used in bring ing Unit 2 on line this past spring, the utility cxpects it to take about a week to bring the unit into service, and several weeks more before the unit is operating at full power. "The actual time will depend on how successfully the restart goes," said Harris. "It's about a month-long process." CP&L allowed approximately 30 days to 40 days to bring Unit 2 back into scrvicc and to full power, with intermittent testing. Though time had been allowed for two shutdowns should repairs or conditions warrant, none was needed. At a meeting of NRC officials in June, Regional NRC Director called that start-up "probably one of the smoothest I have experienced." Unit 2 is now approaching 100 continuous days on line since restart, Harris said. 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