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Rushing Machine Shop celebrates milestone
By Mike Elswick
| Friday, July 18, 2008, 02:59 PM
White Oak’s Rushing Machine Shop along with owner and founder Leon Rushing celebrated 30 years of serving East Texas on Friday.
The machine shop yard took on a festive atmosphere with inflatables for children, vendors offering freebies and plenty of barbecue served up to a crowd Rushing estimated at about 300.
Rushing Machine is a production shop focused on producing wellhead equipment of the energy industry. Rushing, 67, said he has about 45 employees now after starting out as a one-man operation in 1978.
He plans to ease out of the business and turn things over to Brian Johnson in coming months.
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