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Work. going green all at the same time. the u.s. subsidiary of a company based in spain, gamesa usa is manufacturing enormous windmill blades at this pennsylvania plant, shipping them all over the u.s. ron sanders is the plant manager. how many of these do you guys make a week? we re moving back up to produce more, 11 blades per week. reporter: sanders got a break from the recession by coming here to work. he used to work for an automotive supply plant that fell on hard times. i ve been in automotive for almost 30 years. as the industry declined i found myself having to leave the employer that i was working for at the time. reporter: ed barnett had jobs at three different steel plants before it all dried up. he s grateful to be working here. most of the guys that work here like the idea of it being green. we like the idea of this cleaning our environment up. a lot of people here are, you know, like that idea. reporter: creating green jobs ....
Up america. reporter: this used to be steel country usa with its towering pollution machines but now new jobs in the clean energy sector, putting people back to work, going green all at the same time. the u.s. subsidiary of a company based in spain, gamasa usa is manufacturing enormous wind mill blades at this pennsylvania plant shipping them all over the u.s. ron sanders is the plant manager. how many of these do you guys make a week? we re moving back up to produce more at 11 blades per week. reporter: and at your slowest point during the recession how many were you putting out? just five per week. reporter: sanders got a break from the recession by coming here to work. he used to work for an automotive supply plant that fell on hard times. well, i ve been in automotive for almost 30 years. as the industry declined i found myself having to leave the employer that i was working for at the time so in december of ....
At this plant, shipping them all over the u.s. ron sanders is the plant manager. how many of these do you guys make a week? we re moving back up to produce more at 11 blades per week. reporter: sanders got a break from the recession by coming here to work. he used to work for an automotive supply plant that fell on hard times. i ve been in automotive for almost 30 years. as the industry declined i found myself having to leave the employer that i was working for at the time. reporter: ed burnett had jobs at three different steel plants before it all dried up. he s grateful to be working here. most of the guys that work here like the idea of it being green. we like the idea of this cleaning our environment up, and a lot of people here like that idea. reporter: creating green jobs is something the president talks a lot about, but to tell the truth, the u.s. lags behind western europe and wind mill production and use, so in the end the real job may be standing up the wind mill ....
Are getting new life. now manufacturing parts for wind farms. here s joe johns on how this industry is building up america. reporter: this used to be steel country usa, with its towering pollution machine. but now new jobs in the clean energy sector, putting people back to work, going green all at the same time. the u.s. subsidiary of a company based in spain is manufacturing enormous windmill blades at this pennsylvania plant, shipping them all over the u.s. ron sanders is the plant manager. how many of these do you guys make a week? we re moving back up to produce more at 11 blades per week. reporter: and at your slowest point during the recession, how many were you putting out? just five per week. reporter: sanders got a break from the recession by coming here to work. he used to work for an automotive supply plant that fell on hard times. well, i ve been in automotive ....