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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... companies to make components for its giant solar dishes. Stirling signed an agreement with Tower Automotive to manufacture the dishes' structural components and assemble the mirror facets. The Livonia, Mich., company makes vehicle body parts and other components for the major carmakers but has seen auto orders slow with the downturn. Jim Bernard, Tower's vice president of North American...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
“A mirror facet for a solar dish is cut on a machine at Tower Automotive in Livonia, Mich. The maker of body parts and other components decided to diversify after its orders from automakers dropped during the downturn.” Solar energy industry brings a ray of hope to the Rust Belt Areas hard-hit by the U.S. automakers’ slump [...]
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"A mirror facet for a solar dish is cut on a machine at Tower Automotive in Livonia, Mich." Photo: Stirling Energy Systems From Rust Belt to Green Belt Economic development officials from U.S. states that have been hit hard by decline in manufacturing (especially auto part makers), collectively known as the rust belt, are now trying to attract green manufacturing jobs. After all,...
