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450 'Green' Jobs Coming To Central Indiana
Wind Turbine Gear Company Moving Headquarters From Chicago To Indiana
POSTED: 10:48 pm EDT October 8, 2008
UPDATED: 11:01 pm EDT October 8, 2008
DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. -- An Italian corporation with a focus on wind power will bring more than 450 green jobs to Delaware County, state officials announced on Wednesday.Brevini unveiled plans to move their North American headquarters and design center from Chicago to a 60,000-square-foot building just east of Interstate 69 near Muncie and Yorktown, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.The company also plans to build a 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near the same site."This is just the beginning of the trickle down effect of Brevini relocating here. This is a new day," Muncie Mayor Sharon McShurley said at Wednesday's announcement.Brevini produces wind turbine planetary gear boxes used in wind farms across the country. The company's move to Indiana will bring 455 high-tech green energy jobs to the Muncie-area plant with an average pay of $46,000 a year, officials said."This is exactly what we seek to do, to be leaders in the businesses of tomorrow," Gov. Mitch Daniels said. "That this company, for its very first plant factory in North America, picked Indiana, then Delaware County and Muncie is an enormous victory for our state literally against a world of competition."Brevini new facility is scheduled to be built in 2010. The company will start hiring in 2009.
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