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Just a few years ago. then a sales person got a call from a famous fashion designer and a whole new world opened up. cnn's tom foreman has our "building up america" report. >> reporter: in pennsylvania, this is the sound of success, aluminum chairs being shaped, tempered, polished. but a few years back it was the sound of trouble for ceo greg buckbinder. >> this company was ready to go out of business. >> right, right. the company was really on its last legs. >> reporter: the emeco company started in world war ii, making tough lightweight chairs for military shifts. for quite a few years it ke...

Additional 2,000 troops to keep the peace. to maintain the peace to help out with the peace, i should say. and this comes -- we saw this video last week, when the women were marching peacefully in the city, attacked which left seven dead. >> and this situation is happening in the ivory coast. and of course just raises the spotlight on women and all of these uprisings, not the one that the ivory coast is what's happening in the middle east in north africa, but putting the spotlight on women. and we're wondering during this time of unrest, are women benefittinging from this, are they getting str...

Those chairs anymore, the business was failing until it transformed itself. here's tom foreman. >> reporter: in rural pennsylvania, this is the sound of success. aluminum chairs being shaped, tempered, polished. but a few years back, it was the sound of trouble for ceo greg buckbinder. this company was ready to go out of business. >> right, right. the company was really on its last legs. >> reporter: the company started in world war ii, making tough, lightweight chairs for military ships. and for 40 years, that kept them afloat. but in the 1990s, the big contracts were drying up, and bugbinder...

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