
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994                   TAG: 9406030113
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY

Martin Brothers Contractors Inc. of Roanoke said it has been contracted to build a proposed 53,000-square-foot expansion of the Uttermost Co., a home accessories maker in Rocky Mount. The structure will be an American PreEngineered Metal Building, a fabricated product of American Buildings Co. The latter company recently began construction of a new fabricating plant in the Mecklenberg County Airport Industrial Park near South Hill.

Cooper Industries Inc., Houston parent of the Crouse-Hinds electrical products plant in Roanoke, has sold its Cameron Forged Products Co. unit to Wyman-Gordon Co., a Massachusetts maker of castings and composite products for the aerospace industry. Terms of the transaction were 16.5 million shares of Wyman-Gordon common stock plus $5 million.

by CNB