Gary Seward of Ahaus Toolworks with a machinery holding fixture Thursday morning. One of Ahaus' customers is already a supplier to Honda and company president Rick Ahaus hopes to get more business. Palladium-Item photo by Steve Koger
Gary Seward of Ahaus Toolworks with a machinery holding fixture Thursday morning. One of Ahaus' customers is already a supplier to Honda and company president Rick Ahaus hopes to get more business. Palladium-Item photo by Steve Koger

By Mary Sell, Palladium-Item staff writer

It's about 60 miles via an interstate and a state road. But when it comes to impact, business and economic development officials say Greensburg isn't that far from Richmond.

The impact locally of the $550 million Honda Motor Co. assembly plant announced last month and expected to open in 2008 can't yet be measured in jobs or dollars and cents. But that has not stopped some in Wayne County from already planning for the impact of the plant that will hire thousands of people.

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