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City Denies Rumor of Thwarting Sale

By Brian Hagen

03/17/2016

(KAIR)--The Northwest Pipe Company plant in Atchison has been quiet for the past year. The drop in gasoline prices have dampened oil markets putting kinks in businesses like Northwest Pipe that manufacture parts for oil fields.

Northwest Pipe’s idle has put more than 100 people out of work in Atchison, said City Manager Trey Cocking. He explained one of the options the company is exploring is to sell the plant.

But now, the company is at the center of an untrue rumor that the city has blocked an interested company from buying Northwest Pipe by refusing to issue tax credits. Cocking says nothing could be further from the truth.

“We have not had anybody contact us,” Cocking said. “We don’t issue tax credits. Our incentives are mainly issuing industrial revenue bonds.”

Cocking stressed the city has been in contact with Northwest Pipe offering assistance in finding businesses to purchase the plant, while working with the Topeka Workforce Center to set up a job fair in Atchison.

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