The City of Cheyenne responded very positively to our needs and helped seal the deal. The facility manufactures railway trackwork products including railway switches and specialty devices used to divert traffic between tracks. The Cheyenne workforce includes welders, machinists, fitters, laborers, supervisors and office staff. He noted that only 3.4 percent of Laramie County's employment sector falls in the manufacturing arena. We target clean manufacturing firms for recruitment because those careers typically pay very well.
Manufacturing offers tremendous spin-off benefits bringing new money into our local economy.
Each 40 new manufacturing jobs creates 25 additional support jobs within a community. Expansion plans call for the facility to grow to 125,000 square feet. Gorden Deisch of Regency Construction and Noel Griffith of Noel Griffith Architects were awarded the bid. The manufacturing facility in Cheyenne serves railroads like Union Pacific and Southern Pacific with trackwork products. Trackwork manufacturing involves machining of castings, steel rails and steel flat bar.