ARCHIVED  January 1, 1999

Forney Industries expands into N.Y.

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FORT COLLINS – Forney Industries Inc., founded and headquartered in Fort Collins, has opened a new distribution center in Horseheads, N.Y.The Horseheads facility is the company’s fourth location in the United States and Canada. Its construction is an indication of the company’s increasing concentration of clients along the east coast; until recent years, Forney Industries’ clientele have been concentrated in the midwestern states.Forney Industries began as a single manufacturing plant founded in 1932 by J.D. Forney. Forney, who invented the instant heat soldering iron and greatly contributed to invention of the arc welder, manufactured a variety of products from the…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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