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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. New Mexico’s Job Training Incentive Program Board allocated funding to eight businesses to support a total of 87 jobs in December.
The following companies received funding, according to the New Mexico Economic Development Department:
Beck & Bulow Buffalo, which received $41,000 to support six trainees in Santa Fe.
Boeing Co., which received $1.113 million to support 34 trainees in Albuquerque.
Indica Labs, which received $63,431 to support two trainees and five interns in Albuquerque.
KiloNewton, which received $95,666 to support four trainees and an intern in Albuquerque.
National Water Services, which received $35,640 to support four trainees in Santa Fe.
Systems Integration, which received $11,700 to support a single Albuquerque trainee.
New Mexico Borderplex draws Taiwanese manufacturers Cymmetrik is the third Taiwanese company to announce operations in southern New Mexico over the last year 342 2 minutes read A line of tractor-trailers cross through the US-Mexico port of entry in Santa Teresa, New Mexico/San Jeronimo, Mexico. (Photo: CBP/Donna Burton)
Lured by a proximity to the Mexican border, Cymmetrik recently became the third Taiwan-based company to announce construction of a facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, over the last year.
Label maker Cymmetrik recently signed a lease in the Santa Teresa Border Zone and will begin operations in 2021, company officials said in a release. The Santa Teresa plant, which will initially create 20 jobs, will be the company’s first in North America.
LANL Community Conversation Highlights COVID, Economy
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The focus was primarily on the economy at Tuesday’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Conversation via Zoom. Laboratory Director Thom Mason opened with an update on the Lab’s response to COVID-19.
“We had to be very adaptable in our response to COVID-19,” Mason said. “The Lab is considered an essential service. Seventy percent of our staff is working remotely.”
Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes
The Lab is testing personnel working onsite and other employees with concerns they might be infected, Mason said. Although the Lab is on the same trajectory as the surrounding area, in which cases increased over the past month, Mason said that recently, the Lab has seen “a tapering of growth.”
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