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Solano Manufacturing

Due to a lack of contracts, this building was sold to Hartley Construction Company. It now houses the equipment and office for the company.

Metal business funded in Harding County

Solano Manufacturing recently broke ground on a metal fabrication shop to be located seven miles north of Mosquero in rural Harding County. It is hoped the new facility will help to reverse a trend of population loss is Harding County by providing an employment opportunity. It is expected that the company will provide about nine new jobs with wages ranging from $8 to $14 per hour.

The allocation of funding for a new metal fabrication business to be erected seven miles north of Mosquero in Harding County was announced Monday, November 22.
A host of dignitaries from throughout the state have been instrumental from the beginning of this project. State Rep. Brian Moore and Sen. Clinton Harden were instrumental in gaining monies from the legislature this past session.

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What kind of products will be made?
It is a welding shop - will start making road side shelters that are used in picnic areas, etc, and expand into site furniture - benches, tables, etc. we are also hoping they will be able to secure cattle guard contracts with the State.

News Article

ROY, N.M. (June 12, 2006) — The company has received nearly $500,000 in state and local incentives to assist with the facility expansion.

Solano Manufacturing recently held the grand opening of the company’s new metal fabrication shop in Harding County, N.M.

The facility is the product of long-term joint efforts between the state Economic Development Department, the state Public Education Department, Harding County Economic Development Corporation, Roy Mayor Lee Fluman, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico Rural Development Response Council, Eastern Plains Council of Governments, USDA, New Mexico Manufacturers Extension Program, New Mexico Tourism Department, Harding County Commission and Road Department, Senator Clinton D. Harden, and Representative Brian Moore.

In 2003, the state Economic Development Department assisted Harding County in receiving a $50,000 rural response grant to research the possibility of a metal fabrication shop that would manufacture metal site furniture, cattle guards, rest area shelters, and playground equipment.

In 2005, the project received $100,000 in severance tax money to be used to plan, design, construct and purchase land for the metal fabrication building and local economic development offices; $170,400 to Harding County from the state’s general fund to support to build a local economic development office; and $170,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to purchase equipment for the metal fabrication shop

“By investing in innovation, people, infrastructure and responsive local governments we are creating sustainable businesses, good jobs and a healthy revenue flow for our rural communities,” said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.