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Industries employed 1,200 at its Mississauga and Oriskany plants, producing 900 buses per year. OBI was taken over by the Ontario Government in 1994 for loan arrears; by that time, the Mississauga plant only had 165 employees. The $ 81 million
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On April 25, 2012, the company announced it would stop taking orders for new buses, and the
Mississauga and Oriskany plants would close once outstanding orders were fulfilled. The closure took union officials by surprise;
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had just signed a one-year extension on April 1 for the
Mississauga plant. It was announced that more than 530 workers would be laid off in the Mississauga and Oriskany plants. The Mississauga workers staged a
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Wilkins, Van (Spring 1986). "Success with a Twist" (feature article about the development and use of articulated buses in North
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for $ 35M, which also acquired OBI subsidiary Bus
Industries of America, and Western Star adopted a new, single name for both companies,
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name, with the Orion II being introduced in 1983 as the first low-floor heavy duty bus and the prototype Orion VI, the company's first
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for recalled hybrid-electric buses using BAE's HybriDrive system, until it was refitted as an assembly facility for New Flyer buses.
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acquired that business from
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to form the Ikarus 286 model, marketed as the Orion-Ikarus in Canada. Ikarus 286 also marketed in the United States as the
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was only a model or brand name, not part of the company's name. In 2000, Western Star was purchased by a division of
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investment, which consisted of forgiving $ 66M in loans and an additional $ 15M investment, was criticized by
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225:Orion Bus Industries
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2506:Orion International
2115:Mercedes-Benz Group
2099:Fuso Trucks America
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475:Length & Width
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326:Mercedes-Benz Group
188:Number of employees
165:Western Star Trucks
131:Rich Ferguson (CEO)
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