State of Colorado trying to get manufacturing jobs [Video]

DENVER — Colorado continued a string of incentive proposals to manufacturing companies on Thursday in the hopes that three prospects establish their facilities locally.

The state’s Economic Development Commission approved a total of $5.4 million in incentives on April 18 to lure a company that produces technology used in communications, a company that builds parts for wind turbines and a company that makes energy storage systems for batteries.

Two of the packages proposed were the state’s regular job-growth-based incentives, but one codenamed “Project Eleven” sought a state-matching incentive from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and Trade. That project, for the manufacturer of sodium-ion battery energy storage systems, secured just over $1 million in incentives from Commerce City and sought a match from OEDIT’s Strategic Fund.

A representative of the company named Landon Mossburg told commissioners that because the company is a startup and does not expect to be …