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Company Woos Buyer for Fort Wayne, Ind., Concrete Block Plant.

By Doug LeDuc, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 29--FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Florida-based Hydro Conduit Corp. has found an area buyer for a Fort Wayne plant that makes Masolite brand concrete blocks.

Monroeville-based Precast Specialties on Friday purchased the plant with its equipment, four buildings and 18-acre site at 2200 LaFontain St. for more than $1.5 million.

The plant kept its 13 employees and added a person to its work force, said William G. Kriesel, who owns the concrete product businesses with

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