INFOTECH AEROSPACE SERVICES OPENS PLANT
Infotech Aerospace Services Opens 2nd Facility in Puerto Rico, Plans
to Hire 100 New Employees
Yahoo Finance / Associated Press
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August 23, 2006
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Engineering firm Infotech Aerospace
Services has opened a second facility in northwestern Puerto Rico
and plans to hire 100 new employees, the company said Wednesday.
The 22,000-square-foot (2,044-square-meter) facility in Isabela will
help the company meet demand for its engineering work, said Rita
Peralta, president and general manager of Infotech.
The Isabela-based company began operating in this U.S. Caribbean
territory in 2003 as a joint venture of India's Infotech Enterprises
Ltd. and Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United
Technologies Corp.
United Technologies was investing US$7.3 million (euro5.7 million)
in Infotech to create the new jobs, for mainly engineers and
draftsmen, which will increase the company's work force to 500,
Peralta said.
The company will recruit Puerto Ricans for the positions, allowing
the "intellectual talent to remain in the island, contributing to
economic development," Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila said in a statement.
Infotech specializes in aerospace engineering, mechanical design and
software development. Its projects include work on the Joint Strike
Fighter, a U.S. Defense Department program to build the next
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