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PROFILE: BROOKS TRAP MILL OF THOMASTON
Continued from Page 5.
all those items right here, which includes all was better than last year. Overall it is about ucts and bring them into the U. S. and sell
the bricks and runners. roughly the same sales wise. As far as them to different companies. Mostly wire,
out and being killed, that’s bad.” With the downturn in the lobster indus- lobstering goes the busiest times are from fencing, that type of thing. A lot of products
“We were the first ones to invent the try Brooks as looked at other industries. June to the end of October. It depends obvi- we use. We actually rent most of the space in
Ergo blocks,” continued Steve. “They are Steve added, “We are getting into aquacul- ously on the lobstering. The busiest time for that building and have a small space for our
steel weights, but unfortunately we didn’t ture and have been growing that business us actually building traps is July August and own use.”
protect ourselves, now everybody has cop- over the last say couple of years. and we September, and maybe October. We obvi- Karl and his wife are still involved in the
ied them. Those have been huge. Other than definitely see that continuing to grow. We are ously build year around, but the big push is business as well as their children Julie, Mark
that everybody is play with different heads doing shrimp traps, conch traps, eel traps, when the lobsters actually start hitting.” and Steve. They also employ 25 people to get
and so forth. You can easily spend an hour and fish traps for scup and sea bass. Ulti- Several years ago the purchased about the operation going. With their constant look
with some body, just getting how they want mately we want to make sure we’re stay busy 60 acres on Route 90 for Brooks International. to stay diversified they will easily weather the
their traps made. I mean it is endless. As for and you can’t stick to lobstering and do that. Steve added, “We did not want one location economic storm while servicing the lobster
colours, yellow and green are the most popu- Steve added, “It is still kind of early to tell because we do other things besides fisherman.
lar, but we have yellow, green, black, gray, how this year is going, but I wouldn’t say it lobstering. Brook International buys prod-
purple, white, blue, orange, lime green, and
there was also a sand colour. However, there
are probably five main colours.”
Navy Developing FY 2011 Budget
Within the last year they acquired the
Canadian company, Sinko, so now we make The Department of Defense is $18 billion would result in cuts to the Navy’s 300,000 people in 49 states, and is comprised
currently working on its fiscal year long-term ship construction plans, particu- of 6 major shipyards and more than 4,000 first-
(FY) 2011 budget request. While larly for large combatants. In a report issued tier companies that manufacture ship sys-
details of the Navy’s new ship con- by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in tems and components. This does not begin to
struction budget for FY 2011 are June of 2008, CBO estimated the cost of count the thousands of additional second-
presently unknown, the Under Sec- meeting the Navy’s long-term ship construc- tier and third-tier suppliers. Years of under-
& COMPANY, INC.
retary of the Navy, Robert O. Work, tion plan at closer to $25 billion annually in FY investment in shipbuilding has resulted in a
BOATBUILDING
was quoted in a November 2nd issue 2009 dollars. How much the Navy will be major contraction of the industry. Thou-
of Inside the Navy stating that “[the allowed to dedicate for new ships will not be sands of jobs have been lost, and scores of
& Navy] can do what we need to on $15 resolved until December, after the Office of companies have exited the business.
CUSTOM JOINERY
billion a year.” In February of this Management and Budget and the Depart-
year, before becoming the Under ment of Defense decide on a top line budget.
Current Projects:
Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Work, Building Ships, Building Jobs
REBUILDING
29’ Stephens, Waring & White designed cold molded
then an analyst for the Center for The U.S. defense shipbuilding industry
launch powered by a Steyr Hybrid diesel/electric
Strategic and Budgetary Assess- is one of the largest manufacturing and eco-
Continued from Page 6.
system. Just Completed.
ments, cautioned that a shipbuild- nomic drivers in the country. The U.S. ship-
a big 22 and we are excited about it. We hope
8-Meter yacht in for structural repairs.
ing budget that was any lower than building industry employs approximately
to have a boat at the Maine Boatbuilder’s
Number of
Show.”
34-foot sailboat has just been started.
Years Shipyard Supplier
“I will say last year was a bit of a chal-
Ship Type to Build Jobs Base jobs
lenge,” continued Allen, “because we didn’t
Aircraft Carrier 7 years 6,000 30,000
have a facility and we didn’t have the existing
Submarine 6 years 5,500 27,500
facility modified to the point where we could
Multi-Mission Surface Combatant 5 years 2,500 12,500
take on additional work. If you think about it,
21 FRONT STREET
Amphibious Transport Dock 4 years 3,000 15,000
the Eliot facility only had two heated bays all
B
Large Deck Amphibious 5 years 4,000 20,000
of last year. With the amount of work we were
ELFAST, MAINE 04915
Auxiliary 3 years 1,800 9,000
doing, and trying to re-tool it was a challeng-
207~338~6706
Coast Guard Cutter 3 years 1,000 5,000
ing year. This year we are in much better
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Source: American Shipbuilding Association
shape and we are excited about it.”
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