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Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons Plant Could Get New Life

By Peter Neumann

Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons Plant Could Get New Life

June 18, 2010 Updated Jan 2, 2010 at 1:13 PM EST FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) --- A Fort Wayne businessman is working on plans to reopen a factory in the city that closed in 2009 after more than 70 years. Jerry Henry Jr. says he has been negotiating with a Pennsylvania trailer manufacturer that could move operations into factory and have 200 workers. Henry says if those plans fall through, he could move one of his companies, Midwest Pipe and Steel, into the plant. Henry bought the site from the German company that had owned it since 1999. The factory once had 1,200 workers when it was known as Zollner Piston. That company was named for Fred Zollner, who helped form the NBA and whose Pistons team played in Fort Wayne from 1949 until moving to Detroit in 1957.
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