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Non-Tech : Trinity Industries (TRN) --Riding the Rails !!
TRN 27.02-2.9%Oct 30 3:59 PM EDT
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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (18)4/22/2009 9:22:56 PM
From: Arthur Radley   of 60
 
Today....

Before speaking, Obama toured the Trinity Structural Towers Manufacturing Plant, which constructs huge columns for wind turbines. Nationally, that business has been picking up in recent years, with 8,300 put in place across the United States last year -- more than 20 times installed in 2002, according to Victor R. Abate, a vice president at General Electric.

Obama pointed to the plant as a model of how the nation's manufacturing economy can be transformed to accommodate a renewable energy future. The plant here employs 91 people, and expects to create over 100 more jobs within the next two years.

While the plant is creating jobs, its scale pales next to the number of people who once worked at Maytag, which employed some 1,800 workers before its plant here closed two years ago.

In his remarks, Obama announced that the Department of Interior for the first time leased federal waters for projects to generate electricity from wind as well as from ocean currents and other renewable sources.

"The nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the nation that leads the 21 st century global economy," Obama said. "America can be that nation. America must be that nation."
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