Scott Besson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You learn things in the manufacturing process.
I did it walking around this factory today.
This is super impressive.
And they sent these folks.
I was talking to many of the workers.
Many of them had never been out of the country before.
I think they said 10% of them had never been on an airplane.
They were flown over to Germany, did a 12-week apprenticeship program, and now here they are.
And these are, like I said, high-paying jobs.
And the size of this facility may go up 10x.
So, Steve, whenever you have capital expenditures, jobs always follow.
Jobs always follow.
So we are going to see this CapEx boom.
And again, this magnets facility here, there were 800, and it's still continuing, there are 800 construction jobs going.
going on as they're building, those will keep going as this facility gets six, eight times bigger.
And every line they add is 300 permanent jobs.
So I just think we are at the beginning of this liftoff.
I wish that we could have thrown a switch and the jobs and the manufacturing would have come right back.
It is a process.
We didn't get here