A company that makes carbon products for the aerospace, marine and racing industries says it plans to open a plant in the Dayton area in southeast Washington to make blades for wind turbines.
Mark Kean, director of sales and acquisitions for Strategic Composites, says the plant could eventually employ up to 600 workers.
Workers would make the blades from carbon "nanotube" cloth. Kean says it is lighter than the fiberglass used for most wind turbine blades but very strong and durable.
Columbia County -- which had a 12 percent unemployment rate in April -- is home to 225 wind turbines, but Kean says his company's blades likely would be shipped to Texas, California, Wyoming and other windy states.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment