By: E&P Staff After years of legal action, Goss International prevailed against four foreign competitors found to have sold presses in the United States for less than their fair value. It takes dumping very seriously.
The printing equipment maker has yet to decide if it will permit the town of Durham, N.H., to dump 11,000 cubic yards of pond-dredging spoil on the company's nearby property, according to a report in Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H. Goss has facilities in both towns since acquiring Heidelberg Web Systems.
The University of New Hampshire already rejected the material, which, as Democrat staff writer Bruno Matarazzo Jr. reported Wednesday, may be used as a fill or as a cap for other material. It is hoped that a previously filled portion of the Goss property will use the dredged material below the topsoil and turf of a future town-maintained athletic field for the company and the community. Any project awaits the return from Iraq of a local Army Reserve unit's heavy equipment.
On Tuesday, the state's junior senator, John Sununu, visited Goss' Dover plant, where he identified protection of local businesses and trade deficit reduction among his priorities.
Democrat reporter Hiroko Sato quoted Sununu saying he will "continue to work to eliminate the budget deficit, make sure exporters like Goss remain strong and help reduce the trade deficit."
While touring the plant, Sununu watched the assembly and testing of equipment that included a Mainstream press, according to the account in the Democrat. The senator later talked privately with Goss CEO Bob Brown and others from the company. Sato quoted Brown identifying the biggest challenge as "currency situations ... around the world" and noting also the issue of increasing health-care costs.
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