ALBUQUERQUE, NM-A Texas company plans a solar panel manufacturing plant near here that eventually could employ 1,000 people. Solar Array Ventures Inc., a startup company, will relocate its headquarters from Austin, TX, to the Albuquerque area. The factory-the company's first-should be producing panels by late 2010. MORE
WASHINGTON-Manufacturing of wind
turbine parts in the United States grew last year as the market for wind energy
boomed, but the industry is still largely dependent on imports. MORE
FRANKFORT, KY-The National
Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries, a group of 50 companies that
includes 3M, BASF and Duracell-maker Procter & Gamble-wants to build a $600
million plant to make batteries for electric vehicles. MORE
KLAMATH FALLS, OR-Officials at the Jeld-Wen headquarters are excited about a new product line coming to its Mount Vernon manufacturing facility. Local residents will be excited about employee recalls and the addition of 20 full-time jobs. MORE
MALTA, NY-GlobalFoundries will break ground in June on a $4.4 billion computer-chip manufacturing plant here. The facility promises to create more than 1,200 manufacturing and engineering jobs. MORE
LIBERTY, SC-St Jude Medical is celebrating the dedication of a manufacturing facility here. The new facility will manufacture hybrid microelectronic circuits that are the “brains” inside pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibillators. MORE
WAVERTOWN, MA-A123Systems has
raised $69 million from General Electric Co. and other investors to expand its
lithium ion battery manufacturing facilities in the United States. MORE
NOVI, MI-A wind turbine assembly plant opening later this year in Oakland County is seeking to hire 250 manufacturing workers. Global Wind Systems Inc. soon will begin hiring the skilled assemblers for the state’s first maker of delivery-ready, large-scale turbines. MORE
HIGHLAND, NY-Prism Solar Technologies has acquired a manufacturing plant here that it will use to make holographic photovoltaic solar cells. The company spent $3.75 million on the factory, which was previously used to make Panasonic LCDs. MORE