{"id":4416,"date":"2011-06-29T05:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2011-06-29T05:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:51:22","slug":"morning-read-lay-offs-uncertainty-at-drug-plant-in-rouses-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/29\/morning-read-lay-offs-uncertainty-at-drug-plant-in-rouses-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Lay-offs, uncertainty at drug plant in Rouses Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effort to find a permanent owner and operator of the drug manufacturing plant in Rouses Point suffered a setback this week.\u00a0 A company called Akrimax that bought the facility from Pfizer\/Wyeth Pharmaceuticals is now departing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x143829469\/Pfizer-re-acquires-Rouses-Point-plant\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>, Pfizer will continue to operate the plant at least through 2013, but roughly 60 job lay-offs are looming.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>North Country Chamber of Commerce President Garry Douglas said the region had high hopes for Akrimax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However,  they have not been able to develop sufficient business to support a  1-million-square-foot complex, due in part to the economy and to  accelerating changes in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector since  they began,&#8221; Douglas said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question now is whether a long-term operator of the plant can be found for 2013 and beyond.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x143829469\/Pfizer-re-acquires-Rouses-Point-plant\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effort to find a permanent owner and operator of the drug manufacturing plant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}