Diamond Electric expanding West Virginia operations

State Journal, The, February, 2002 by Forinash, Danny

ELEANOR - A Japanese tradition that holds the same meaning as sticking a shovel in the earth for a groundbreaking calls for one eye on a "daruma doll" to be painted in, signifying the beginning of the project. When the project is complete, the other eye is painted to match the first.

The tradition was brought to West Virginia last week with the announcement that the Diamond Electric plant in Eleanor would be expanding by 28,800 square feet. Diamond was originally founded in 1937 as a small research organization in Osaka, Japan. The Eleanor plant opened in 1996 and began coil production to serve automakers Toyota and DaimlerChrysler.

The five speakers at last week's ceremony, which was held inside Eleanor's historic Red 'louse, helped color in the left eyeball of the...

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