Gamesa (Spanish wind turbine co.) adding 250 jobs -- in Philly!

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Gamesa, the maker of wind turbine generators for wind-based energy, is slated to open a 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on about a 22-acre to 23-acre section of the 2,000-acre former U.S. Steel site by June, officials said.

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Besides Gamesa, several other businesses - including Toll Brothers, Kinder Morgan, International Salt and Dominion Power - have set up shop on the Fairless Hills property since last year's KOIZ designation. Leighton said more businesses are in negotiations and announcements could come by the second quarter of 2006.

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Gamesa will operate from U.S. Steel's former central maintenance building, on Gamesa Drive, renamed from Maintenance Drive, Leighton said.

So if our business "leaders" won't back alternative energy and employ American labor doing it, Spain's will. Cool. Thanks, Spain! (Though I suppose the KOIZ sweetened the deal.)

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/147-02092006-610499.html

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1. Our manufacturing sector is now employed by...

Japanese auto companies, Spanish turbine companies, what other foreign countries? Just another check-box in the "3rd-world-profile" form.

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2. American business management is the worst in the developed world.

A bunch of mouth-breathing ignoramuses with no clue how to run a going business.