Beloit company shifts manufacturing
BELOIT, Wis. (AP) - A Beloit company will end manufacturing operations and move the work to Tennessee.
United Industries makes stainless steel tubing, in part used in automotive industry. The company says the industry's weakness has caused a dramatic decline in orders.
Products made in Beloit will be transferred to United Stainless - an affiliated company with a manufacturing plant in Selmer, Tennessee.
Sales, purchasing and administrative jobs will stay in Beloit.
The company has been based in Beloit since 1934.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Apr 5, 2008 at 10:40 a.m.
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We stay together... pray together, we work together, and if the good Lord smiles kindly on our endeavor, we share in the wealth together.
Apr 5, 2008 at 8:44 a.m.
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how about a foul up!
Apr 4, 2008 at 9:34 p.m.
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followup, that is.
Apr 4, 2008 at 9:34 p.m.
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I'm guessing there will be a fllowup. How many jobs will be lost?
Apr 4, 2008 at 7:40 p.m.
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Well, I was just reading about a leading information technology company that took over a disused manufacturing complex over in Woodstock, donated by the city. They committed to remain in the community for five years.
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The company was the Oliver Typewriter Company, and the year was 1896. (They stayed for decades, and by 1922 almost half the typewriters in the world were made in Woodstock.)
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All in all, Beloit's economy is much better now that it was 10 or 20 years ago. So is Janesville's. The peak of manufacturing employment in the United States was around 1940. There have been a lot of good years since 1940.
Apr 4, 2008 at 4:18 p.m.
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Let's not all act so surprised. You have a government that is nothing less than a "corportation". People at the top who benefit financially through the labor of others.....the American people. Until there is enough people that have integrity and character whom are willing to get off the fence and step up and do something about the erosion of our culture, this is your fate and this is your children's fate. We are in a new age. The information age. Industry is washed up and so are the people who think that it's their future. It's time to flush out the corrupt evil and transfuse it with people of character and integrity and instill true honor and duty back into our communities. That's what needs to happen. I'm refusing to sit on my hands and watch what's going on. How about you? (no excuse that there's nothing that can be done either, because that's just not true!)
Apr 4, 2008 at 12:48 p.m.
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They didn't tell you the whole story. this plant is moving to China soon. The Tennesse plant is an option for some employees, but not all
Apr 4, 2008 at 11:58 a.m.
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One less overseas
Apr 4, 2008 at 11:17 a.m.
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More to follow.
Apr 4, 2008 at 11:04 a.m.
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More jobs lost.
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