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Fairless Hill, Pennsylvania – Gamesa Corporation As many as 7,000 workers once populated a 2,500-acre U.S. Steel manufa

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Content	Fairless Hill, Pennsylvania – Gamesa Corporation As many as 7,000 workers once populated a 2,500-acre U.S. Steel manufacturing facility in Fairless Hill, Pennsylvania. Employment started declining in 1982 and after steady downsizing, only 100 employees were left in 2001. Then along came the Spanish company Gamesa Corp., which built a new $34 million factory on 20 acres of the old U.S. Steel site in 2006. The factory employs over 500 workers to manufacture towers, blades and assembles nacelle components. Newton, Iowa – TPI Composites For decades, Newton, Iowa, current population 16,000, was home of Maytag, the familiar manufacturer of household appliances. But in 2007, the Maytag factory shut down, leaving 1,800 long-time employees without a job. Desperate to lure new industries, city oﬃ cials attended a conference hosted by the American Wind Energy Association and convinced TPI Composites, a manufacturer of wind turbine blades for General Electric, to consider locating a new factory in Newton. Less than a year later, TPI Composites opened the doors to its $56 million, 316,000 square foot facility. The initial workforce numbers 500, with a strong likelihood of further expansion in the near future. Grand Forks, North Dakota – LM Glas ber When Danish wind turbine blade manufacturer LM Glasﬁ ber decided to expand into the US market in the year 2000, it helped lift the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota out of local economic slump. The city was still suﬀ ering from the aftermath of a devastating ﬂ ood in 1997. The opening of the LM Glasﬁ ber plant brought over 500 well paying jobs to town. Since then, Forbes magazine ranked Grand Rapids as 28th best small metropolitan area to do business. Alpena, Michigan – ATI Casting ATI Casting Service, a foundry that produces grey and ductile iron castings for wind turbines, recently reopened a closed auto industry foundry in Alpena, Michigan that had been a long-time source of 200 local jobs. The new $15 million casting facility has already hired 150 locals and hopes to expand as markets for its components in the U.S. grow over time. Ephrata, Washington – Katana Summit Katana Summit located a wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in Ephrata, Washington and quickly revitalized the region’s railroad freight activity. Rail shipments have increased from 40 to 380 loads per year since the tower manufacturer came to town. The company spent approximately $11 million to expand a facility now capable of shipping out 150 turbine towers per year. It employs about 150 workers, pays up to $7 million in annual wages and contributes $47,000 annually in local building tax revenue. 13
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