[CPEO-BIF] Lawrence Aviation, Port Jefferson Station, NY - vapor an issue

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Aviation plant spurs worry

BY JAMES BERNSTEIN
Long Island Newsday (NY)
April 17, 2006

The titanium came out of the roaring furnaces at Lawrence Aviation 
Industries at white-hot temperatures of around 1,800 degrees.

Even with protective clothing, workers' skin would turn red as they 
handled the 300- to 400- pound titanium slabs that were shipped to 
Grumman Corp., Fairchild-Republic Co. and some of the nation's other 
huge aerospace and defense companies for use in building fighters like 
Grumman's F-14 Tomcat.

Lawrence Aviation's facility in Port Jefferson Station hummed almost 
from the day it opened in 1959 until the early 1990s, when the Cold War 
ended. That event and a bitter, four-month strike in 1984 put the 
company into a tailspin. It never recovered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlawy0417,0,7910088.story?coll=ny-business-leadheadlines
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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