Middleboro (Mass.) company to make Cape Wind parts (100 new jobs)

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http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101022/NEBULLETIN/11010303

Mass Tank Sales Corporation will manufacture foundations and other metalwork components of the Cape Wind renewable energy projectin a deal that will create more than 100 jobs, Gov. Patrick Deval announced recently.

The Middleboro-based company will build a new facility, at an as-yet undetermined site, to manufacture the components, according to the announcement. The company will work in partnership with the EEW Group of Germany, a manufacturer of offshore wind energy structural components, on the facility, the first in the country for the manufacture of these offshore wind components.

Cape Wind Associates has entered into a letter of intent with Mass Tank and EEW to purchase monopile foundations and transition pieces, which connect the foundation to the turbine tower, as well as other related steel products including platforms, ladders, and piping, for construction of its wind project in Nantucket Sound.

Mass Tank, a longtime manufacturer of steel storage tanks, will partner with EEW to provide offshore wind energy components from its new Massachusetts facility, as well as EEW's European production facilities.

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