Governor highlights Belen solar facility

January 19, 2010

In his State of the State speech today kicking off the legislative session, Gov. Bill Richardson highlighted the 600 jobs Belen is expected to add when Signet Solar builds its solar manufacturing plant west of Los Lunas.

The governor said:

We have successfully recruited Fortune 500 companies like Hewlett Packard, Schott Solar, Fidelity Investments, who are creating six thousand high-paying jobs in New Mexico.

But those incentives are working equally well to recruit medium-sized companies to rural New Mexico.

For instance, we have announced:

• Two hundred jobs at PreCheck in Alamogordo
• Six hundred jobs at Signet Solar in Belen
• Forty jobs at Sunland Peanuts in Portales
• Twenty jobs at eSolar in Sunland Park
• Three hundred and eighteen jobs at the New Business Conference Center in Silver City
• Fifty jobs at the Northern New Mexico Wood Business Park in Las Vegas

And just last week one hundred and fifty new jobs at Johnson Plate and Tower Manufacturer in Santa Teresa

And in the next few weeks I will be announcing new companies offering hundreds of jobs in Gallup and Roswell.

Construction work began earlier this month at the North Belen interchange. When the work is completed, vehicular traffic will have access to the west side of Interstate 25.

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