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http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/bus...nter-1.1391750
Carbondale manufacturer helping build One World Trade Center
BY JAMES HAGGERTY (STAFF WRITER)Published: October 22, 2012
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Aluminum plates crafted by a Carbondale specialty manufacturer will become part of the exterior of the new One World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Quality Perforating Inc. is manufacturing 175,000 square feet of pierced aluminum panels that will wrap the lower levels of the main structure at the site of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I think, now, we have really drawn attention," company President Bob Farber said as he sat in an office at QPI's 80,000-square-foot plant on Dundaff Street.
"The whole envelope of the base of the building is wrapped in this," company Vice President Mike Gilboy said as he pointed to a small stack of 16-foot, 68-pound perforated aluminum panels destined for the exterior of the 104-story, 1,776-foot skyscraper. "This is high-profile work."
QPI's involvement in the $3.9 billion, world-renowned development represents a major transformation from the company's origins a decade ago with three employees.
Mr. Farber, an electrical engineer from Carbondale, and other investors in 2001 bought the bankrupt Laubeck Corp. perforating plant that had traced its origins to Cross Engineering Co. at the same location in the late 1800s. Perforators pierce metals and other materials for industrial, architectural, household and artistic applications.
"This place was pretty well decimated, and we started from scratch," Mr. Farber said.
Today, the plant employs 68 people, and QPI has recorded double-digit revenue growth over nine of the past 10 years, Mr. Farber said.
Much of the success results from $7.5 million in new machinery and equipment investments since 2005, including computerized automation. The plant has the capacity to do leveling, degreasing and laser cutting.
"We make all our own tool sets," Mr. Farber said. "We are the fastest-growing, most technologically oriented perforator in the country."
QPI came to the One World Trade Center project through a an Italian engineering contractor with a manufacturing plant in Connecticut that received a $40 million order for the metal curtain wall on the skyscraper's lower section. QPI's 3,600 perforated panels surrounding the bottom 20 stories of the structure will be adorned by exterior, stainless-steel-clad aluminum louvers.
"This is our single biggest contract," Mr. Farber said. "We are about halfway through the project right now."
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