DEUTREL PROJECT CELEBRATED NUTRITION, SKIN PRODUCTS COMPANY WILL EMPLOY 30.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - City officials celebrated Tuesday the arrival of a new addition to the Lancaster Business Park - a nutrition and skin products company that will employ 30 people. Deutrel Industries and city officials held a brick-laying ceremony for the company, which expects to complete a 14,000-square-foot corporate office and production facility in December. The company is spending $1 million in land acquisition and construction costs to establish its new headquarters. The company has been operating out of scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. locations, including a leased building in Lancaster. ``That's not what we wanted to do,'' said Jerry Rhoten, the company's chief executive officer. ``We wanted a central location.'' In addition to skin and nutrition products, the company also makes soil and water treatment products. One of the company's research efforts is to look for ways to treat the polluted pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. water in the famed canals in Venice, Italy, said company vice president Kevin Negrete. The Deutrel building is part of a surge in new construction projects at the Lancaster Business Park, which now has only five parcels remaining, said Vern Lawson Jr., who markets the park for the city. Businesses buying into the park in recent months include a sheet metal company relocating from Pacoima and a company constructing the largest industrial building built on speculation in 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 . Both companies are constructing 62,000-square-foot buildings. The 240-acre business park was created in the early 1980s to lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. the Antelope Valley's dependence on the boom-or-bust aerospace industry, but it fell into hard times in the 1990s. After struggling with bond payments, the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Lancaster Economic Development Corp., which oversaw o·ver·saw v. Past tense of oversee. the business park, sold off its assets in the park to the city in 1998 and dissolved. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) Lancaster Vice Mayor Henry Hearns, left, and Deutrel Industries CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Jerry Rhoten help lay bricks to celebrate the company's new 14,000-square-foot production facility, which will employ 30 people. (2 -- color -- ran in AV edition only) Tuesday's brick-laying ceremony at the Lancaster Business Park. (3 -- ran in AV edition only) Lancaster Councilwoman Michelle Idleman and Redevelopment Agency Director Stafford Parker try skin cream produced by future business park tenant Deutrel Industries. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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