Once an industrial giant, supplying the world with condensed soup and building ships for the U.S. military, Camden is rekindling that past with the expected opening later this month of a plant bringing jobs back from China.
With its anticipated 300 or more workers, ResinTech, which makes water filtration products, will not employ the tens of thousands who once made Campbell’s Soup and New York Shipbuilding iconic names.
But, built on 27 acres of previously contaminated land straddling Cramer Hill and East Camden, ResinTech will provide the types of jobs that residents have been clamoring for under a controversial corporate-tax break that many say has left them out.