Carrier to shut Syracuse plants

kiss more jobs goodbye...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Carrier Corp., the world's largest maker of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment, said Monday it will close two manufacturing plants in Syracuse, N.Y., next year and shift most of the work closer to its customers in Asia.

About 1,200 of the site's 2,800 employees will lose their jobs as a result. Carrier, a unit of Hartford, Conn.-based United Technologies Corp. (UTX: up $0.03 to $81.83, Research, Estimates), employs about 40,000 people at 81 locations worldwide.

The Syracuse plants currently make refrigeration equipment used on shipping containers as well as the compressors used in such equipment. Its compressors also are used on tractor-trailer units and in large rooftop units that provide heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Carrier said it will consolidate the production of container refrigeration equipment at an existing plant in Singapore.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/06/news/companies/carrier.reut/

Those poor people who are losing their jobs. Hope they remember when they vote next year...

This should be a growth industry. Yet another example of the ruination caused by the administration's spinning.

That Ford shut down its River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Mich. Heck, Syracuse is where Carrier--and the air conditioner itself--was FOUNDED, for goshsakes! :wtf:

(I mean, they don't call the indoor stadium at Syracuse the Carrier Dome for nothing!) :crazy:

This is still more "great" news from Dub's econmy--and his recession. WE already know the answer to "Can Dub actually do ANYTHING right?"; I just hope that, by this time next year, many more of our fellow citizens will WAKE UP and understand that answer!x(

One thing the BFEE HAS given us in eight years: two "No-Jobs" presidents! :mad:

B-)

I used to live about 4 miles from there (Carrier Circle). My fathers farm is located about 2 miles from there.

When I was young, I figured that I would probably end up working either there or GE.

I guess they are both gone now.

Cheers
Drifter

On Edit: I meant to reply to the original post

on the folks in Pittsfield, MA

you mean laying people off or turning the city into a superfund site.

This company seems to have a lock on the NYC market for cooling towers. Anyone know anything about Baltimore Air Coil?
http://www.baltimoreaircoil.com/index.html

This is the bending end!!