Vestas's Global Cutbacks Fuel Concern In Marlborough
Deval Patrick joined local officials and representatives from international wind turbine company Vestas to ceremoniously shovel the first pile of dirt at the company&rsquo. Evergreen received more than $40 million in tax incentives, grants and lease agreements related to its Devens manufacturing plant, state officials have said, which some have called for Evergreen to pay back. Still On The Table As of now, Vestas still plans to expand in Marlborough, but that could change, company officials said. Last summer, the company said it had about 20,000 international employees, including about 3,000 in the U. S. , most of them in Colorado and Oregon. The layoff announcement, though, is the latest sign of volatility in the clean energy industry, coming just months after Marlborough-based Evergreen Solar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after it had received government support. Vestas, which is headquartered in Denmark but has manufacturing facilities in the United States, recently announced plans to lay off about 10 percent of its global workforce, close a factory in Europe and restructure the firm. s the national example of Solyndra, the California solar manufacturer that has been under heavy criticism since it received a federal loan guarantee, then scaled back its U. S. operations.
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This author is not one to throw dirt around about candidates. It has come to my attention that some people do not do much or any research so I got my shovel ready to do some digging for you about a candidate; Newt Gingrich.
We saw it... [with] the bike-riding. Obama at the beach; Obama playing basketball... The campaign will not have to SAY anything; subliminally, it works.Of course, McCain cannot lift shovels of dirt because of the injuries he was subjected to during his captivity in North Vietnam.That will not be told.
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