Columbia Industries headed to Starkville.
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Do you mean building an operation in Oktibbeha county or relocating from Oregon? I am assuming you mean the Rig System manufacturers. I can't find a link mentioning anything, yet.
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Well, I am out the 17n loop. Followed your google suggestion and found out they announced this back in March. That's big. Great for Starkville. They do good work.
Oilfield equipment manufacturing.
I'm a little surprised it was based in a state where there's not been much oil production.
But I'm wondering why Starkville of all places in Mississippi was chosen?
Not that there's anything wrong with Starkville...
I'd just expect this to be either near the Jackson area (probably Pearl or Madison County) or in either of the oil producing areas of the state: Natchez and Laurel.
Heck, even our Columbia. It's close to Baxterville Field.
I'm a little surprised it was based in a state where there's not been much oil production.
But I'm wondering why Starkville of all places in Mississippi was chosen?
Not that there's anything wrong with Starkville...
I'd just expect this to be either near the Jackson area (probably Pearl or Madison County) or in either of the oil producing areas of the state: Natchez and Laurel.
Heck, even our Columbia. It's close to Baxterville Field.
I just went back and found the WCBI story from March. I didn't know about that either. I just saw stuff popping up on Facebook and Google today so I figured it was new. I'm guessing all the paperwork must have finalized today.
Looking at it some more, it's good that Starkville found a company to come in and use some long vacant space.
I'm a little surprised this story got picked up by Y'all Politics.
It seems to be more local interest than anything else.
It's awesome that East Mississippi CC can supply them with welders. That's a profession with a lot of demand.
From this WCBI article: Link.
I'm a little surprised this story got picked up by Y'all Politics.
It seems to be more local interest than anything else.
It's awesome that East Mississippi CC can supply them with welders. That's a profession with a lot of demand.
From this WCBI article: Link.
Looks like they are heavily involved with scrap meatal industry too. The cost to ship their equipment to this part of the US from Oregon would be $10,000 - $12,000 per truckload (or more). So it may be mainly about just getting a location on this corner of the country.
My company builds heavy steel industrial equipment and we run into that. It's just easier to compete on the eastern side of the US when you're selling $100,000 worth of equipment with $2,000 shipping cost, versus trying to ship that same thing 2000+ miles to California @ $10,000.
My company builds heavy steel industrial equipment and we run into that. It's just easier to compete on the eastern side of the US when you're selling $100,000 worth of equipment with $2,000 shipping cost, versus trying to ship that same thing 2000+ miles to California @ $10,000.
Looks like metal fabrication for several industries is what they do.
One of the biggest factors in this type of thing at this juncture is access to people / talent - people who can do the work. A closer proximity to the Texas, Louisiana, and the Sunbelt in general than what they had in Oregon was probably a factor too.
One of the biggest factors in this type of thing at this juncture is access to people / talent - people who can do the work. A closer proximity to the Texas, Louisiana, and the Sunbelt in general than what they had in Oregon was probably a factor too.
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