[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11237]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  STANWOOD BOOMWORKS AND ABS MATERIALS

  (Mr. BOCCIERI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOCCIERI. Today, I rise to acknowledge two businesses in my Ohio 
district helping to combat the BP oil disaster in the gulf and creating 
jobs. Stanwood Boomworks in Massillon, Ohio, is one of 10 companies in 
the country producing oil booms designed to help contain spilled oil. 
Over the past few weeks, Boomworks has hired 80 new local workers and 
is producing 250 booms a day. Boomworks supplied more than 1,000 oil 
booms for Gulf Coast workers already, and I want to honor their hard 
work today.
  Another local company, ABS Materials in Wooster, Ohio, is taking 
advantage of National Science Foundation grants to create jobs at home 
and provide solutions for the Gulf Coast oil spill. An NSF grant helped 
fund research leading to the formation of ABS Materials in 2009. As a 
result of that funding, it currently employs 28 people at two locations 
and will expand to over 100 in the upcoming year. ABS Materials is 
currently working on producing a more environmentally friendly way of 
separating oil from ocean water in the Gulf of Mexico.
  I congratulate both of these companies on their perseverance and 
success during these tough economic times and their leadership in 
combating the worst oil spill in our country's history.

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