Article: Tri Town installs solar panels; Conn. molder takes latest step to reduce energy costs.

Byline: Frank Antosiewicz

Custom injection molder Tri Town Precision Plastics Inc. has taken steps in the past to cut its energy costs. But the installation of a new solar photovoltaic system on its roof is by far its biggest step forward, providing both a cost savings and a greener footprint.

"This is certainly our biggest green undertaking, but it's not our first by any stretch,'' Bob Brinkerhoff, plant manager at the Deep River, Conn.-based company, said in a Jan. 8 telephone interview.

The system was designed and installed by Gloria Spire Solar LLC of Bedford, Mass., with the help of local company Essex Commercial Construction. It is ...

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