图为Mowrey电梯公司员工正在生产电梯活塞

　　美国Mowrey电梯公司决定将在Marianna市制造总部建造一座新型3层办公室。
　　当美国还被困于经济衰退之中时，Mowrey公司的老板Tim Mowrey表示他相信经济复苏不久就会到来，Mowrey公司已经为此做好了准备。
　　公司原址将被用于发展其钻探业务。
　　将要修建的新大楼每层有500平方英尺，带有一座测试塔，用来检测新推出的、即将销售的电梯产品。
　　Ｔim Mowrey希望新办公楼于6月开工，开建当天还有庆典，那时人们可以参观工厂，这将是公司几年来第一个公众开放日。参观者会欣赏到公司电梯及其部件的生产过程，其中木工和机械工厂是两个主要生产领域。
　　Tim Mowrey认为经济复苏的前景对其他人来说并不乐观，经济衰退曾使公司小规模停产。之前，公司劳动力短缺，许多职位空缺，现有工人需要综合培训，一人当多个人用，以应付电梯生产中多方面的问题。
　　Mowrey公司工厂现有125名员工，将来计划扩至250人。  Mowrey公司的业务主要在美国东南部的佛罗里达州、阿拉巴马州、佐治亚州、路易斯安那州和密西西比州，在海外也有小规模的客户群。
　　公司自1970年中期创建以来，已经两次从低谷中崛起，去年年收益为1000万美元。Tim Mowrey说这次扩建公司还享受到了建筑方提供的优惠利率和价格。
　　他坚信美国经济一定会复苏，“美国政府正在采取措施，各企业也在努力，佛罗里达州仍是经济发达地区，许多人每周还在前往这里。”
　　Mowrey公司正在恢复元气的道路上，这次花费150万美元的扩建也表示其迈出了一小步——扩建将暂时雇佣15名建筑工人。
　　公司介绍：Mowrey电梯股份有限公司成立于1976年，是横穿美国东南部、拉丁美洲和加勒比海岸的电梯供应商。自成立之日起，该公司已经为公寓、家庭、学校和大学设计、生产和安装了10000多部电梯。该公司致力于安装、服务和维修商业住宅电梯，包括客梯、货梯、液压梯、小型提升机、轮椅提升机、楼梯升降机和牵引电梯。

Company plans expansion

　　Mowrey Elevator will soon start building a new three-story office suite at its manufacturing headquarters in Marianna.
　　While the nationwide economic downturn lingers, owner Tim Mowrey Sr. said he believes recovery will come soon and that he is positioning the company to be ready for it.
　　The old office space will be used to further expand the company’s drilling operation, already being ramped up to a small degree.
　　Each floor of the new building will have about 500 square feet, with Mowrey’s suite on the top floor. The new structure will also have a training tower, where newly designed elevators can be tested and adjusted prior to being sold on the market.
　　He expects to start construction in June and plans to have an open house celebration to mark the beginning of work. He will offer plant tours at that time, the first such publicly announced opportunity in several years. Visitors will be able to see the various processes involved in the creation of an elevator and its component parts. Woodworking and machine shops are two of the key operational areas.
　　In 1999, the elevator company moved into the old Lehigh furniture manufacturing plant after Lehigh closed its Lafayette Street operation. The property includes 380,000 square feet of space under roof; about 240,000 square feet of that currently in active use.
　　Mowrey’s vision of an imminent economic recovery might be difficult for others to see, in light of the slow-down that caused a small-scale layoff at the plant earlier this year. Before that, the workforce was trimmed by attrition, with many vacated positions going unfilled. Additionally, the remaining workers have been cross-trained so that they can handle more aspects of elevator construction.
　　The plant currently has about 125 employees, but Mowrey said he believes his operation will eventually have a full compliment of 250 when the recovery he anticipates takes hold. A few months ago, he bought an engraving machine so that he’ll no longer have to outsource the finishing work on control panels and other components that require wording. Mowrey serves the southeastern states of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi, and has a minor customer base in overseas.
　　The company has already survived two major recessions since the business opened in its original Ft. Lauderdale location in the mid-1970s, and has revenues in excess of $10 million a year. Mowrey said he’s expanding now to take advantage of favorable interest rates and the competitive pricing being offered by a construction industry eager for building contracts.
　　He said he has no doubt the economic recovery will happen, and in the near future.
　　“We’re Americans,” he said, “Government will do what it does, but the business community will bring it back. Florida is still a key player, and thousands of people are moving here weekly.”
　　Mowrey said he believes he’s putting his company in line to ride the recovery all the way to the top floor, and his physical expansion alone represents one small step – an investment of approximately $1.5 million that will temporarily employ about 15 construction workers.