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the entire region. “The job opportunity that’s going to be in this area, the amount of skilled labor that’s going to be needed to come into this area, it’s just a very exciting time,” he said.
ABOUT MARATHON PETROLEUM CEO: Kevin Bogard, division manager Location: 3801 23rd St. SW, Canton Product or service: A wide range of crude oils from light sweet to heavy sour. Gasoline, diesel, asphalt, heavy fuel oil, propane, and sulfur. Crude distillation, catalytic cracking, catalytic polymerization, hydrotreating, reforming, alkylation, and sulfur recovery. Refining capacity: Total company capacity 1.2 million barrels a day; Canton plant has 78,000 barrel capacity. Number of employees: 350 in Stark County
Years in Stark County: 81 (Local refinery built in 1931, was acquired by Ashland Inc. in 1948 when Ashland merged with Allied Oil company; Ashland Inc. formed joint venture with Marathon in 2005, which dissolved in 2008; in 2011, BOGARD Marathon Petroleum separated from Marathon Oil.) About Stark: “From 22 years of Marathon, I've lived in Illinois three times, Kentucky, Detroit, Houston ... Canton is one of our favorites; it’s a small enough town to get around, and not fight all the people that you have to in Houston, but it’s big enough that you have all the things that you want to do.” -Kevin Bogard
H-P PRODUCTS H-P Products was founded in 1945 to make gas conversion burners for coal furnaces in households. Today, the company makes engineered tube bends for the automotive, construction and agricultural industries at two Louisville plants. Residential central vacuum systems, bearing brand names such as Dirt Devil and VACUFLO, are produced at the company’s Jackson Township plant. Company spokeswoman Pam Corneliussen said roughly 35 to 40 percent of new homes in the United States have these systems installed — and that the systems are even more common in Canada. Employment at the three plants and corporate headquarters totals 375 people, said Corneliussen. Continued on page 46