GROWING GREEN JOBS

News that Chepstow based manufacturer Mabey Bridge has won a multi-million pound order to build 35 wind turbine towers for UK sites is good news. The firm has taken on 45 people and transferred 50 more to its factory in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, after the deal with German company Nordex. Some of the towers will go to the Pant-y-Wal wind farm in Rhondda and the rest will go to Scotland. Mabey Bridge created 240 jobs when it opened its £38m factory in Chepstow in May 2011. The firm can produce up to 300 towers a year. The         production of the 120-tonne towers, will begin in mid-February with the factory working around the clock. The turbine towers, for Gilfach Goch in the Rhondda valleys, will be the first made by a Welsh company to be installed in Wales.