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October 23, 2007 – Vol.12 No.31 LM Glasfiber Breaks Ground for New Wind Turbine Blade Factory in Little Rock, Arkansas. The facility will be the company’s third blade manufacturing facility in North America and the 11th worldwide. Effectively the plant will double the capacity of the existing factories in Grand Forks, North Dakota and GaspÈ, Quebec. The plant is scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter 2008 and is expected to employ over 1,000 people within five years. Little Rock was selected as the location for the new factory because it is ideally located to serve some of the areas that today is seeing the highest growth in wind power development in the US, has excellent logistical options and a well-qualified work force, according to LM Glasfiber. In his groundbreaking speech, LM Glasfiber CEO Roland SundÈn said: “The US has from the beginning been one of the pioneers in wind power, and is today the world’s largest market. Our new plant in Little Rock will help secure LM Glasfiber’s customers’ long term blade supply and support the development of wind power in the US.” To accommodate strong customer demand LM Glasfiber will, in a few months, start supplying the first blades from Little Rock from a temporary facility. LM Glasfiber is the world’s leading supplier of blades for wind turbines, and the only supplier that operates on a global basis.The company has produced and sold more than 86,000 blades since 1978, corresponding to a capacity of 20,818 MW, or the annual electricity consumption of approximately 20 million European households.(10/19/07)
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