DELTA MOVING HQ TO VALLEY.Byline: JIM Jim Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] See : Escape SKEEN Do you mean:
PALMDALE -- Vehicle-barricade manufacturer Delta Scientific is moving its headquarters from Valencia to its Palmdale plant, bringing about another 50 workers to the high desert. Delta Scientific expects to compete the move of its headquarters operations to Palmdale by mid-July. The Valencia operations include administration, engineering and some specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. manufacturing functions. ``We are making the final move to Palmdale because we really enjoy working here,'' said David Dickinson For other persons named David Dickinson, see David Dickinson (disambiguation). David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry. , the company's senior vice president. ``Everything we had hoped for is coming to fruition fru·i·tion n. 1. Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment: labor finally coming to fruition. 2. Enjoyment derived from use or possession. 3. .'' The company is also nearing completion of an expansion with the addition of a $4 million, 57,000-square-foot staging and shipping and receiving building. The building will join the company's $8 million, 125,000-square-foot plant in the Fairway Business Park on Avenue O just west of Division Street. The company's first Palmdale building was built to eventually include the headquarters operations, Dickinson said. ``This is a company we are very, very proud of,'' said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. ``For them to move their corporate headquarters here is a good statement. They are a great partner for the business park.'' Delta, a manufacturer of vehicle barricades, parking control equipment and guard booths, opened its manufacturing plant in Palmdale in April 2004 to keep up with the demand for its products since the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The company has about 220 workers. The company also has operations in Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). and in the United Kingdom. Delta Scientific's products are in use at more than 160 U.S. embassies around the world and at more than 110 federal buildings, including courthouses and FBI offices. Among its customers is the U.S. Air Force. The company's products include a pop-up barricade capable of stopping a 10-ton truck traveling at 50 mph and guard booths made with steel plating thick enough to block bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle assault rifle Military firearm that is chambered for ammunition of reduced size or propellant charge and has the capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire. . Earlier this year, the company announced it had installed anti-terrorist vehicle barriers at the international cruise ship terminal at Sydney Harbour in Australia. Each of the barricades is designed to stop and destroy a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 50 mph. It is set in a foundation only 18 inches deep. At Sydney Harbour, the barriers prevent speeding vehicles from getting past the guard post at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay QUAY, estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled key. 2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between the first row of houses of a city, and the sea or river 5 L. R. 152, 215. , where about 90 vessels are expected to dock during the busy summer months. james.skeen(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5743 |
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