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Greenville plant expansion expected to add 200 jobs

INTRO – The Governor’s Office has announced a business expansion expected to bring 200 new jobs to Greenville. George Olsen has more.

ASMO North America has announced plans to expand its manufacturing operations in Greenville. ASMO has been in Greenville since 1995 and currently employs over 530 people. The planned expansion will bring a $50 million investment to the Greenville facility and add 200 new jobs to the plant by the end of 2016. ASMO manufactures wiper motor linkages, arm and blades and radiator fan motors. The expansion will enable the addition of assembly lines and diecast machines. ASMO could receive up to $1.2 million over 12 years from the Job Development Investment Grant program depending on actual job creation. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.