WPTZ: Norsk Titanium CEO envisions company Little League team,
generations of company workers
Published:
Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 16:14
Warren Boley talks company culture, hiring, construction
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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — Norsk Titanium will open its doors in
Plattsburgh sooner than expected in order to meet its customers’
demands and build -- what CEO and president Warren Boley hopes is --
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The company services big-name customers such Airbus, Boeing and Alcoa, according to Boley. He said the factory will be the first in the world to produce the titanium parts at this scale. He credits the company's ability to now do this to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s and a partnership with SUNY Polytechnic.
“It's a great opportunity. I would be remiss if I didn't stress the importance of SUNY Polytechnic here. The building will say SUNY Polytechnic Norsk Titanium,” Boley said. “They are providing the game changing opportunity to this game changing technology. What SUNY Polytechnic is doing is enabling the industrialization, the first industrial scale 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, factory in the world."
Touting what its executives call “first-in-the-world technology,” aerospace manufacturing company Norsk Titanium has leased a space yards away from the plot they intend to house its permanent manufacturing facility, according to Boley.
“It is a temporary transition point that allows us to get the machines into New York and start hiring and satisfying customers about a year earlier,” he said. “Norsk Titanium can sponsor a Little League team the summer of 2017, not the summer of 2018. It's a great strategy to bring the technology to Plattsburgh even faster.”
Norsk Titanium is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, but after two years of discussions with regional leaders, Boley said Norsk will call the former Clinton County Airport home by the end of 2017. Norsk uses additive manufacturing, similar to 3D printing, to create parts for airplanes. Boley explained that its machines take melted titanium wire and using its Rapid Plasma Deposition (“RPD”) machinesand print it into print airplane or engine parts.
