PARIS : Three representatives of Port Angeles will attend a composite materials trade fair in the French capital on March 10-12, along with a side trip to a Composites Facility in Bristol, England.
While they touted the networking advantages of attending the annual JEC Composites Conference and said there’d be no substitute for showing up there in person. Commissioner John Calhoun said the trip’s price gave him “a little bit of sticker shock.”
For Port Commissioner Jim Hallett, Business Development Director Jennifer States and Bremerton-based composites consultant Geoff Wood, the trip will cost less than $20,000, according to States.
That’s roughly a year’s earnings for a minimum-wage worker in Washington.
States said the trip would allow port representatives to watch demonstrations of composite material-handling equipment such as it hopes to install at its Composite Recycling Technology Center at William R. Fairchild International Airport in Port Angeles.
We can go talk to those equipment manufacturers and get the specs that we need,” States said.
