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This is surely good news for the current employees of Eakas and should give them a little job security knowing the plant is expanding. Little has been made public about the reasons for the previous layoffs that amount to over 200 employees. Will they be able to be recalled? Or are the new jobs being put into a different category for a different type of disadvantaged worker? The Mayor was exuberant about this project but we need to also look at the long term project and how it will affect us who live in town. Our benefits will be and our cost will be? I AM NOT in the inside circle and would like more long term details if any to the residents of Peru. Is this a clean processing? What about the waste being discharged through our soon to be built system?
Lois you have presented very good questions. Whenever our country has a economic downturn and high unemployment the government becomes very lax in its enforcement of environmental laws. Air and water pollution are still air and water pollution no matter what the conditions of the economy.
Who and how many manufactures does Eakas supply and who are they? Several years ago Mayor Baker was very influential in creating a direct line of manufacturing facilities along 51 to supply the Diamond Star plant in the Bloomington Normal area. The idea was to have many smaller plants than one big plant for employment. Peru had recently lost the Westclox plant. Also the Just in Time (JIT) concept was a key player in industry and we were fortunate to be one hour away from Diamond Star on super highway. Ottawa, Illinois invested money in a beautiful typewriter plant north of town to only see it shut down within ten years. Computer keyboarding set in, there is no need of manufacturing typewriters anymore. It would be beneficial to Peru to attract manufacturing of the future, along with the basics.
Since they supply to the auto industry, I wonder if this is at all associated to the auto bail-outs? Are they still going to be a closed-loop system? What does a "potential" for jobs actually mean?
Why didn't Peru plan ahead and incorporate an industrial park instead of having factories adjacent to shopping areas where many people congregate daily? It has never made any sense to me to place industry side by side with shopping malls. Are all the plants on 251 north, clean and do not discharge any pollutants into the air, water or sewer?
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This is surely good news for the current employees of Eakas and should give them a little job security knowing the plant is expanding. Little has been made public about the reasons for the previous layoffs that amount to over 200 employees. Will they be able to be recalled? Or are the new jobs being put into a different category for a different type of disadvantaged worker? The Mayor was exuberant about this project but we need to also look at the long term project and how it will affect us who live in town. Our benefits will be and our cost will be? I AM NOT in the inside circle and would like more long term details if any to the residents of Peru. Is this a clean processing? What about the waste being discharged through our soon to be built system?
Lois you have presented very good questions. Whenever our country has a economic downturn and high unemployment the government becomes very lax in its enforcement of environmental laws. Air and water pollution are still air and water pollution no matter what the conditions of the economy.
Who and how many manufactures does Eakas supply and who are they? Several years ago Mayor Baker was very influential in creating a direct line of manufacturing facilities along 51 to supply the Diamond Star plant in the Bloomington Normal area. The idea was to have many smaller plants than one big plant for employment. Peru had recently lost the Westclox plant.
Also the Just in Time (JIT) concept was a key player in industry and we were fortunate to be one hour away from Diamond Star on super highway.
Ottawa, Illinois invested money in a beautiful typewriter plant north of town to only see it shut down within ten years. Computer keyboarding set in, there is no need of manufacturing typewriters anymore. It would be beneficial to Peru to attract manufacturing of the future, along with the basics.
Since they supply to the auto industry, I wonder if this is at all associated to the auto bail-outs? Are they still going to be a closed-loop system? What does a "potential" for jobs actually mean?
Lois, I to am worried about the waste that will be discharged. Hopefully we will not see an increase in the number of cancer and leukemia.
Why didn't Peru plan ahead and incorporate an industrial park instead of having factories adjacent to shopping areas where many people congregate daily? It has never made any sense to me to place industry side by side with shopping malls. Are all the plants on 251 north, clean and do not discharge any pollutants into the air, water or sewer?
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