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Wind Farms Revitalizing Midwest Manufacturing Towns

by Pat Coate | May 13, 2009
"Wind power is definitely helping bring some of that manufacturing muscle back."
- Bob Loyd, turbine-plant manager

Hundreds of workers lost their jobs after the Rockwell-Goss printing press factory closed here in Cedar Rapids in 2001.

But that was before wind power blew into town, bringing thousands of clean-tech manufacturing jobs to Iowa and the Midwest.

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