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$40M turbine plant coming
The Martifer Group, a Portugal-based global construction company, will build a $40 million wind-turbine tower manufacturing plant here, Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday. ...Attracting Martifer comes at a significant price -- more than $8 million in city, county and state incentives and abatements, with potentially $15 million more in rail improvements still to be negotiated between the state and the Texas Pacifico Railroad.
September 8, 2008
by Paul A. Anthony
in San Angelo Standard-Times
The Martifer Group, a Portugal-based global construction company, will build a $40 million wind-turbine tower manufacturing plant here, Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday.
The project brings the first significant influx of well-paying specialized manufacturing jobs to the Concho Valley in more than 20 years -- and recasts San Angelo as a regional hub for the burgeoning wind-energy industry.
"We have a good feeling about the people here," Martifer Energy Systems CEO Antonio Pontes said. "We expect to have San Angelo as a very important city in Martifer's plans and Martifer's future."
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