Cowes-based Blade Dynamics announced this week that they would be manufacturing wind turbine blades and components in one of the largest industrial campuses in the world.
Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans is the location for the new plant which aims to create 600 jobs in the next five years.
Attractive incentives
Local paper, The Times-Picayune, reported that an incentive package by the New Orleans state, that could total $30 million, should also generate 970 new indirect jobs in the area which is suffering from the loss of 2,600 jobs due to the departure of Lockheed Martin.
It was reported that Joint Founder and Sales Manager of the Island based company, Theo Botha, said Blade Dynamics were attracted to the Michoud site by the presence of a “willing, dedicated and skilled workforce” and by the recruiting efforts of Governor Bobby Jindal and the state’s economic development staff.
UK Government funding boost
The Island based high tech company recently received a grant of £400,000 from the Government as part of a boost to the UK wind energy industry.
Blade Dynamic’s primary activity is rotor manufacture, but they also design and manufacture subcomponents as well as design and commission blade plants.
We have put in a request to Blade Dynamics in Cowes for a comment on the news and will update this article once we receive something through.
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