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Gamesa's windmill blade factory in Ebensburg PA
...selected as an American Made Hero Company!
The Ebensburg PA windmill blade factory employs approximately 300 local workers at a windmill blade factory operated in a
community about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh where too many workers have been leaving to find employment in manufacturing. Four years
ago, Gamesa opened this 142,000-square-foot plant in Cambria County as part of its entry to both Pennsylvania and the
United States.
"It was a smart move on Gamesa's part to come to the U.S., replicating what it learned to do well in Europe, and they are
in a very good position," said Gerry Susman, director of Penn State University's Center for the Management of Technological
and Organizational Change.
Gamesa's Ebensburg plant is expanding to handle larger blades as the wind-energy industry moves toward larger, more
powerful windmills. It is consolidating all blade work from another blade-making plant in Fairless Hills, Bucks County.
That plant will concentrate on making nacelles, which house the turbines turned by the wind-driven giant blades to
generate electricity. Gamesa's North American headquarters and a sales office are in Philadelphia.
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