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The next time a harried commuter gets on a bus in New York City, he can take some solace from knowing that the vehicle was made just 320 miles away at Nova Bus' new assembly plant in Plattsburgh, NY.
The $25 million, 140,000-square-foot facility began assembling buses in June 2009, just 14 months after construction began in April 2008. Since then, the plant has been humming. It has already produced orders for the Disney Co. and the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC. It's now working on a 90-vehicle order from the New York City Transit system.
"It's been quite an exciting and energizing startup," says Jim Tooley, plant manager.
A subsidiary of Volvo Bus Corp., Nova Bus already had two production facilities in Quebec, Canada-in St. Francois-du-Lac and St. Eustache. However, if the company was going to pursue the U.S. public transportation market, it needed a U.S....