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Friday, June 26, 2009
Around N.M.
Journal Wire Reports
SUMCO May Shift
Jobs to Duke City
A small number of jobs might be moving to the SUMCO semiconductor operation in Albuquerque in the wake of the company's plans to close its southwest Ohio plant next year. Arizona-based SUMCO Phoenix Corp. said this week it will stop all operations at its plant in Mainville, Ohio, north of Cincinnati, by July 2010. About 360 jobs will be lost in Ohio.
The Ohio plant makes silicon wafers for use in cell phones and other electronic devices.
"The production of some of the particular things made at the Ohio plant will be moved to Albuquerque and Phoenix," SUMCO spokeswoman Nancy Norman said. "We are not moving all 360 jobs. That number has not been determined, but it is not going to be large."
The Albuquerque plant, which employs 160, is a finishing facility where an epitaxial layer of silicon is applied to the 200 mm wafers made in Phoenix, Norman said. Some of that work was done in Mainville.
"That is the part of the business that will be going to Albuquerque," she said.
AAA Sees Uptick
In Holiday Travel
AAA-New Mexico projects the Mountain Region, which includes New Mexico, will see a slight increase of 1.2 percent in July Fourth travel during the holiday compared to last year's holiday.
The organization is forecasting that nearly 2.6 million people in the region will travel.
AAA also says the Mountain Region is the only one among nine regions in the U.S. that's expected to show an increase for the holiday. It says nearly 2.1 million travelers will drive, while 250,000 will fly.
The region includes New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
Overall, AAA expects a decrease of 1.9 percent in Independence Day holiday travel this year.
Cruces To Start
Convention Center
LAS CRUCES — Nobody remembers exactly when the idea of a convention center was first publicly floated — perhaps sometime in the mid- to late 1970s — but it's now evolved from concept to reality.
At 10 a.m. Monday, the first shovels of dirt will turn, symbolizing the start of construction.
After years of debate over a suitable location, the convention center will finally be built at the southwest corner of El Paseo Road and University Avenue here.
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