Sentences with phrase «capacitor factories»

The company, which operated electric capacitor factories in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls, for years dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — in the river until the practice was banned in 1977 amid concerns that the chemicals are carcinogenic.

Last November, General Electric announced it was closing its capacitor factory early next year in a cost - saving measure, taking its 200 jobs to Florida.

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He knew that the Mass MoCA complex is located in the old Sprague Electronics factory complex, where paper capacitors were invented and radios and electronic components were made for three - quarters of a century.