John A. Boccieri: “Today, I rise to acknowledge two businesses in my Ohio district helping to combat the BP oil disaster in the gulf and…”

“Today, I rise to acknowledge two businesses in my Ohio district helping to combat the BP oil disaster in the gulf and creating jobs. Stanwood Boomworks in Massillon, Ohio, is one of 10 companies in the country producing oil booms designed to help contain spilled oil. Over the past few weeks, Boomworks has hired 80 new local workers and is producing 250 booms a day. Boomworks supplied more than 1,000 oil booms for Gulf Coast workers already, and I want to honor their hard work today. Another local company, ABS Materials in Wooster, Ohio, is taking advantage of National Science Foundation grants to create jobs at home and provide solutions for the Gulf Coast oil spill. An NSF grant helped fund research leading to the formation of ABS Materials in 2009. As a result of that funding, it currently employs 28 people at two locations and will expand to over 100 in the upcoming year. ABS Materials is currently working on producing a more environmentally friendly way of separating oil from ocean water in the Gulf of Mexico. I congratulate both of these companies on their perseverance and success during these tough economic times and their leadership in combating the worst oil spill in our country's history.”