Ingeteam will build plant in Milwaukee

[boomerbust]

Source: jsonline.com

Ingeteam, a Spanish manufacturer of wind-turbine generators, will locate its new factory in the Menomonee Valley, Gale Klappa, co-chairman of the Milwaukee 7 economic development coalition, announced Monday.

The plant will create about 270 jobs, said Julia Taylor, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, also a Milwaukee 7 co-chairman, said the plant will be located near the western end of the valley. The exact site will be announced Tuesday, said Patrick Curley, Barrett's chief of staff.

Ingeteam chose the valley because of its proximity to workers, I-94 and Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, as well as Milwaukee's "great reputation for manufacturing," Barrett said. This will be Ingeteam's first manufacturing facility in North America, Klappa said.


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[kestrel91316]

1. Good. Milwaukee needs the jobs. I just hope they hire people

who are here legally, given their interest in Spanish-speakers.

[Kolesar]

2. Wind power spokesperson "Gale"

that's too good

[TrollBuster9090]

3. A Spanish wind-turbine company and a Norwegian electric car company?

So, a SPANISH wind turbine company is going to build wind turbines in Milwaukee and a NORWEGIAN electric car company (Th!nk City) is going to build electric cars in Indiana, while American companies doing these things are nowhere to be seen. (No, Tesla electric cars in California don't count because they only make electric cars that billionaires can afford.)

Am I the only one who finds this to be a bit of a disgrace?

[Dappleganger]

4. It puts food on the table.

There's nothing disgraceful about manufacturing work as long as they pay a living wage with benefits.

/pragmatist face

[Stumbler]

5. I have to agree with your sentiments

Don't get me wrong, it's great that a company is moving to Milwaukee and some of their residents will be getting the opportunity for work. I have no problem w/ that at all. But it's really sad to know that as a nation, we must rely on this kind of "good news" to come from other nations. I for one was appalled during Obama's SOTU address when he called for an expansion of nuclear power stations & off-shore oil drilling and investment in 'clean coal' technologies as a way of increasing America's energy-independence. He went on for another 2 minutes about how "green" nuclear power is before paying lip-service to solar & wind, without even mentioning geothermal.

Good for the residents of Milwaukee who will get those jobs. But shame on us as a nation for failing to create these job opportunities on our own. The products will be made at home, but the profits will be sent overseas...

[WriteDown]

7. See post 6. nt

[Stumbler]

11. Ok, I'll negate my comment on the ownership of the company providing the jobs

In the future I'll keep those thoughts to myself. As for starting my own company, I have neither the technical knowledge needed to begin building such turbines, nor the business skills or knowledge needed to start a company that could hire the people who already have such technical skills needed. Nor do I have the available capital to hire anybody at any stage of starting a business from scratch.

I will stand by my second point though. I've contacted my reps and have written to the Obama admin explaining my beliefs that reliance on coal, oil and nuclear power are not the ideal path for America's future or energy independence. We need more domestic investment in wind, solar, geothermal, as well as energy conservation. And I guess if we can't adequately fund our own educational system to produce citizens with the skills I lack or even the ability to encourage students to study those fields, then we should be thankful for those societies willing to look beyond the needs of the short-term, quarterly-profit-focused campaign contributors who currently run our electoral system.

Thank you Spain, for providing jobs in Milwaukee. We'll take as many more as you're able to provide.

[WriteDown]

6. Why don't you start a turbine company in the US?

:shrug:

[Brazenly Liberal]

12. Insourcing

We complain (understandably) about outsourcing - now we are whining about insourcing, too? Unless we are to be isolationists, which would be insane in this day and age, we have to do a certain amount of both. The ideal is not to cut ourselves off like a bunch of survivalists hiding in the woods, but to achieve BALANCE in our international interactions.

[customerserviceguy]

8. I'm waiting for the usual

"but the profits are going overseas" complaints that I usually see on the Japanese-nameplated car company threads.

Is it somehow different when it's wind turbines versus internal-combustion engine vehicles?

[Luciferous]

9. Who cares where the profits go as long as the company is providing

good jobs for American workers.

[customerserviceguy]

10. That's exactly my point

I feel the same way about the Japanese and German-owned plants that build cars here, often with greater fuel efficiency and longevity.

[Brazenly Liberal]

13. Yes!

After nearly 10 months, 1000 resumes, a dozen interviews in an area with one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, my spouse just started this week working for a company based in Belgium. This company provides hundreds of thousands of jobs worldwide and thousands of them right here in the US. GOOD jobs with decent salaries and good benefits. You can bet the bank we don't give a rat's ass who's getting the profits.

Edited just to clarify: Company is in an ethical line of business and treats its workers well. We most certainly WOULD be concerned about profits going to a dodgy outfit, but in that case he wouldn't have sent them a resume in the first place.