[quote="On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:08 p.m. In an article entitled "Vertex Rail on track to begin hiring blitz", Wayne Faulkner of the StarNewsOnline.com staff"]
Vertex Rail on track to begin hiring blitz
Don Croteau (left), CEO of Vertex Rail, and Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover and Pender County, sit in the WHQR studio prior to the 'Coastline' talk show in Wilmington on Wednesday.
Photo by Matt Born
Vertex Rail Technologies is within a week or two of being on schedule to hire workers and begin its first production of rail tank cars in Wilmington, the company's CEO said Wednesday.
Donald Croteau's comments came following a radio interview on WHQR's Coast Line program that also included District Attorney Ben David.
Vertex will invest some $60 million and hire 1,300 people to build 4,500 to 5,000 rail cars a year at the 559,000-square-foot former Terex plant on Raleigh Street.
Potential revenues could total $600 million to $800 million, Croteau said.
"We will be building our first sample rail cars in March or early April of this year," he said. The samples are required to be certified by the government to build cars.
"Once that is done, we will be ramping up and hiring very aggressively and will be building cars for production in May or June of this year," Croteau said.
Vertex has already hired a few managers, but the company will be hiring for the production floor by the second week of February at the latest, he said.[/quote]
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