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May 8, 2009

Auto-related firms shift to wind power

  • While parts for wind turbines can be much larger than auto parts, the process of making them is much the same.
    • By DAVID MERCER
    Associated Press Writer

    CHICAGO — Pete Ostrander and the manufacturer he works for took a hard look at the auto industry four years ago, and neither liked what they saw.

    Automakers were pushing vendors like Merrill Technologies Group, where Ostrander works, to cut costs and, with the economic environment in Detroit worsening by the day, the company retooled itself as a supplier to what it believed was an industry with better prospects.


     
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