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Manufacturing + Wind Power = New Green Jobs

Wind power provides manufacturing with an incredible opportunity for new green jobs. You can’t build a wind turbine without manufactured components. Even more important — behind every manufacturing component is the workforce that produces it.

Forward-thinking manufacturers willing to make the green transition need a well-trained, qualified workforce on the production floor. Toolingu.com provides job-specific competencies and online training content to provide you with a blended learning approach that can help you train your workforce for a green economy.

If You Make or Assemble...	You Need to Train...
Ball & Roller Bearings Power Transmission & Brake Equipment	CNC Lathe Operator CNC Mill Operator Grinding Specialist
Control Systems & Electronic Assemblies	Electrical Assembly Maintenance Electrician
Rolled Tower Tubes & Bolted Joints	Welders Heavy-Equipment Assembly
Rotor Blades	Composites Processing

While the economic benefits produced by the construction and operation phases of wind development are important and significant, a substantial portion of the benefits from the investment will result from manufacturing the equipment and will flow to those states and localities that either have or can develop the firms to supply the subcomponents.

— Wind Turbine Development: Location of Manufacturing Activity, Renewable Energy Policy Project, September 2004.

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