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10 Oct '12, 5pm

Vestas cuts more #manufacturing positions in Colorado #wind #energy #PTC

As promised, Vestas is continuing its workforce reductions in Colorado - this time, at its Brighton, Colo., blade manufacturing plant - due to Congress' failure to extend the wind energy production tax credit (PTC). According to company spokesperson Andrew Longeteig, the layoffs amount to approximately 5% of Vestas' Colorado manufacturing workforce. In August, the company cut positions at its nacelle assembly plant - also in Brighton - and at its Pueblo, Colo., tower manufacturing facility . The latest round of layoffs are just a part of Vestas' overall plan to eliminate 3,700 total employees on the year - 1,400 more layoffs than the company had originally anticipated when it announced its first round of workforce reductions in January. Once again, Vestas cited reduced orders resulting from the lack of a PTC extension as the reason for the layoffs. Responding to Vestas’ an...

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