Article: Wind power! Building wind turbines and bringing jobs to Western Michigan.(Cover story)

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As this is written, Michigan's unemployment rate is somewhere north of 15%. Layoffs from two bankrupt auto companies and their huge supplier bases have contributed to giving the state the highest unemployment rate in the nation.

Mastech Inc. (Manistee, MI), could have been a casualty of the auto companies' crash and burn. Instead, the company is an alternative energy success story that has been featured on mainstream media news programs such as ABC's 20/20.

Historically, Mastech supplied automation and material handling systems for automotive and other applications. "We've built everything at one time or another, from ...

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