PA Governor Rendell Inaugurates Gamesa's New Facility

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:16 PM
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PA Governor Rendell Inaugurates Gamesa's New Facility

Edited on Thu Jun-15-06 12:24 PM by skids

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell marked the official opening earlier this week of Gamesa Corp.'s manufacturing facility for wind turbine generator blades -- its first in North America -- at the South Park Industrial Complex in Cambria County. More than 230 people will work at the new plant.

The Spanish wind-energy company is investing $84 million to locate its U.S. headquarters and four manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania. In addition to the Ebensburg plant, three new advanced technology plants are planned for Bucks County, where 300 workers will produce windmill blades and towers and assemble the nacelles, which house the wind turbines.

http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45170

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Local and state leaders joined Gamesa to unveil the Spanish company�s 200,000-square-foot wind turbine manufacturing facility Monday.

The Cambria Township site, already home to 200 workers, has begun full production and will employ 235 workers by year�s end, Gamesa President Alfonso Basagoiti said.

Pennsylvania is home to Gamesa�s U.S. headquarters, and the $50 million Cambria County plant soon will be joined by several others in Bucks County.

�This is evidence manufacturing is back in Pennsylvania and back here in the Johnstown area,� Gov. Ed Rendell told the crowd.

http://www.altoonamirror.com/articles.asp?articleID=2409
But, but, but... I thought that U.S. workers were just way too overpayed for U.S. manufacturing to compete!

Seems it takes a foreign company to do something good for Americans these days.

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:17 PM
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1. kick

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Thu Jun-15-06 05:47 PM
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2. Thank you, Guv!

Kick for Ed Rendell and the workers!

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