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Xerox on steady course here
Toner plant exemplifies local commitment, says CEO Mulcahy.
(July, 2007) — Construction is wrapping up on a five-story, 120,000-square-foot plant that will “grow” a new type of toner for Xerox Corp.
The plant is being built in Webster, will mean 40 new jobs when it is operational, and is an example of the printing and imaging company’s commitment to Rochester, Chief Executive Anne Mulcahy said Tuesday.Xerox, the world’s largest maker of photocopier toner, broke ground on the plant in late 2005. Manufacturing — using chemicals to grow toner from the molecular level instead of crushing and grinding material to make it — is to begin this fall.”There’s a stability around what we intend to do in this community from an employment perspective,” Mulcahy said during an interview at Xerox Square in downtown Rochester.”We’re very committed and we don’t sense there’s going to be a lot of change there.”Xerox was founded in Rochester and historically has been one of the area’s largest employers. But it moved its corporate headquarters to Connecticut in 1969 and, during the company’s financial troubles of 2001 and 2002, cut back from a local employment level of more than 12,000. Xerox now employs about 7,600 in Monroe County.In a wide-ranging discussion Tuesday, Mulcahy and President Ursula Burns said local employment should remain steady for the foreseeable future.”There will always be some ups and downs,” Mulcahy said. “When we say stable, we don’t mean ‘to the person, to the job.’ Change can happen. (But) we don’t view it as dramatic change or strategic change.”
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