Gun Manufacturer Starting Operations In Arkansas

(LITTLE ROCK)  The U.S. arm of a Czech Republic gun manufacturer has chosen Little Rock for its North American headquarters and its first U.S.-based production facility as part of a $90 million investment that is to employ nearly 600 people within six years.

Preliminary work on CZ-USA’s 265,000-square-foot facility already has begun on a 73-acre site off Zeuber and Fletcher roads east of Interstate 30 on land owned by the Port of Little Rock.

The headquarters and factory will mean new jobs for assemblers, test firers, machine operators, packers and loaders, skilled laborers, warehouse workers, engineers and production supervisors who will be paid an average of $22 per hour, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said during the announcement Tuesday.

Some hiring is expected to begin as soon as this fall with more hiring in the spring of 2020, according to a CZ-USA page on the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce’s website.

Landing the project is “the result of everything that we have to offer in Arkansas — from a skilled workforce to a business-friendly environment to our central location to the beauty of our great state,” Hutchinson said at the news conference in the governor’s conference room of the state Capitol.

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