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Sugar Grove-based Chicago Industrial Fasteners LLC announced a new partnership with Spain's Matz-Erreka SCL to market and distribute large bolts and rods for wind turbines. The agreement, which will bring the high-strength bolts that are used to hold together and anchor wind turbines from Spain to the United States, is expected to help CIF expand its wind power parts business in the U.S. While CIF will import the parts initially, the plan is to shift production to Sugar Grove, creating “conservatively 10 to 20 jobs,” according to John Price, the firm's president. Figuring in both transportation costs and the exchange rate, “we can be a lot more competitive if we don’t have to ship it from Spain.”
That's not to say that Illinois will benefit from an expansion in wind power. Unfortunately, government incentives in the state are geared more toward purchasing and installing a wind power system than manufacturing and selling the equipment necessary to benefit from wind power. While a free market economy demands that the most competitive environment attracts investment, Illinois is lagging behind other states that are well-positioned to take advantage of the push to shift to clean power.
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We have a golden opportunity to generate THOUSANDS of skilled, high-paying jobs if we recruit the photovoltaic panel and wind turbine manufacturers to the Southeast side of Chicago, the former rust belt of the city. It's easily accessible to all modes of transportation, so product can be easily shipped out via rail, truck and air(at under-utilized nearby Gary/Chicago airport). Meanwhile, Renewable Energy Syndicator/Broker Breeze Sun Technologies is working to bring solar, wind and maglev projects and the jobs that come with it to the area. They've been lobbying manufacturers to bring their plants to a closer proximity to all the projects BST is working to bring to the Midwest.
Anyone know the Breeze Sun website?