“Owners of Duanesburg Airport have landed the first in what they hope will be a string of light-industrial and other business on the open land away from the runway.
HP-You will move from its Knox and Colonie locations to a new building it hopes to start constructing next month. As the name implies, the company designs and assembles smart hydraulic power units (HPU — get it?) for industrial users large and small.
Pat Waltz has been in this line of work for 30 years and is joined in the new venture by two sons and a daughter-in-law. They’ve been doing the assembly work at his home workshop in Knox, and are running out of elbow room.
“We’re at a point where we can only build one machine at a time without being congested,” Waltz said.
It’s an assembly business rather than manufacturing, he explained: They take other manufacturers’ hydraulic equipment and improve its functionality and interface with a better computer control system, relying as little as possible on custom or proprietary parts, which complicate the supply chain and repair process for the customer over time.
Most town permits are in hand, Waltz added. The building permit is the last one, and he thinks it will be granted soon enough to allow.”
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Cropley, John. Schenectady Gazette 25 August 2019.