Advanced Energy mulled busing workers from Wyo.

FORT COLLINS – At one point, Susan Schell thought the answer to her company’s labor problems might be to bus employees in from Denver or Cheyenne, Wyo.But the vice president of quality and human resources for Advanced Energy Industries Inc. soon realized that Denver had an unemployment level at least as low as Fort Collins’ and Cheyenne couldn’t offer the qualified work force the high-tech company needed.
Back to the drawing board.
Advanced Energy is suffering from the same problem that plagues so many other companies in the region. The 16-year-old Fort Collins-based manufacturer of power-conversion devices for the semiconductor…