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Article: Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-Area Manufacturer Becomes Major Player in Aerospace Industry.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- December 10, 2001
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By Marques G. Harper, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 10--WRIGHT TOWNSHIP, Pa.--A faint odor of burning metal lingers inside the factory of King Fifth Wheel Co. as the sounds of bubbly pop music, pumping through speakers, fill the drab building in the Crestwood Industrial Park.
The odor grows stronger after the factory workers, some of whom have been employed at the plant for decades, finish a break and get back to operating various mammoth-sized machines.
The Wright Township factory, which opened in 1954, is a leading supplier of parts used in airplanes and fighter jets -- ones like those with ...