DELTA PLANS EXPANSION.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - Vehicle-barricade manufacturer Delta Scientific plans to expand its Palmdale plant, adding a second building that will allow the company to add as many as 100 workers. The $4 million, 57,000-square-foot staging and shipping and receiving building will be built near the company's $8 million, 125,000-square-foot plant in the Fairway Business Park on Avenue O just west of Division Street. Moving shipping and receiving functions to a new building will allow the company's manufacturing operation to become more efficient, 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 Valencia-based company's senior vice president. 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 150 workers in Palmdale and the new building will allow the company to grow by as many as 100 workers. ``We love working in Palmdale,'' Dickinson said. ``We enjoy the community.'' The company plans to keep its headquarters in Valencia. The Valencia operations include the company's 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. 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. Mayor Jim Ledford said he was pleased to see the company expand. ``Their business is a great business, an international business,'' Ledford said. ``I think they see the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley as a place to build facilities and consolidate their operations.'' 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. Its customers also include 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. . Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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