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Article: The Philadelphia Inquirer Andrew Cassel Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- September 16, 2002
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By Andrew Cassel, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 16--What Les Schaevitz was telling me the other day sounded like an industrial-development dream come true.
His local start-up firm, using a promising new technology, plans to set up its first manufacturing facility in the heart of our region.
When fully ramped-up, the Ceraphim Corp. production line in West Conshohocken is expected to crank out millions of units, supplying a growing global market with its genuine, made-in-the-Philadelphia-area product.
Visions of Silicon Valley began to dance in my head. High-tech manufacturing! Production jobs! ...