FOR RELEASE August 1, 2008: Inter-Motion, Incorporated announced today the expansion of employment at the company’s plant located in Kearney, Nebraska. The plant presently employs 15 and with the expansion, total employment will reach 30 within the next 18 months. Inter-Motion specializes in machine tool rebuilding and modernization and with the expansion will be moving in to metal fabrication contracts for other manufacturers in the area. This expansion will allow the company to more broadly utilize the considerable skills of their employees.

“Inter-Motion has been in operation since 1984 and we are pleased to be able to announce the expansion of production at the plant” said Ronny Roberts, joint owner with Jim Zecha. “I am especially pleased the area manufacturers have confidence in the quality of our work and have allowed us this opportunity” he concluded. Inter-Motion began life in the machine tool rebuilding and modernization market and a considerable amount of the annual work is still in this niche. They rebuilt machine tools for companies like John Deere and Caterpillar, to name but a few of their ongoing customers. Taking a machine tool, such as a grinder or metal lathe, rebuilding it and turning it in to a computer controlled machine with robots is highly skilled work performed by the Central Nebraska employees.

“We are very pleased with the decision of Inter-Motion to expand and increase employment. Inter-Motion is a perfect example of economic development programs working with small, primary employers” said Dale Pohlmann, chairman of the board of the Buffalo County Economic Development Council. “While we are really pleased with Inter- Motion’s expansion, this is also solving a problem for our other manufacturers looking to contract out some of their components without having to go far afield to do so. Inter-Motion is solving problems through their expansion" concluded Pohlmann.

Of the Buffalo County labor force, 15.1% are employed in manufacturing. Combined with the neighboring counties, that number climbs to over 19%. Nationally, that figure is 10%. Since 2003, Buffalo County’s labor force has grown 7.2% while the population of the county, since 2000, has grown over 9%.

Representing Buffalo County and Kearney, the Buffalo County Economic Development Council (BCED) has been in existence for 22 years and provides economic and industrial development services for existing primary employers and to the recruitment of new, compatible industry. The Council is overseen by a 15 member board of directors who’s chairman for 2008 is Dale Pohlmann, vice chairman Tom Henning and secretary/treasurer Butch Brown. Mayor Stan Clouse of Kearney and Gerald Reimers, mayor of Ravenna and the city manager of Gibbon are also on the board as is the chairman of the Buffalo County board of supervisors, Richard Pierce. More information, including existing buildings and industrial/commercial land sites in Kearney and Buffalo County can be found at www.ci.kearney.ne.us.