CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, Nov. 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Siemens Energy, along with state as well as local public officials, as well as a host of community leaders, celebrated a official grand opening of a brand new 450,000-square-foot Gas Turbine prolongation plant adjacent to its existing Steam Turbine-Generator manufacturing plant in Charlotte, NC, today. The event marks an additional important milestone in Siemens' growth strategy in a U.S., further demonstrating a company's stated commitment to U.S. investment as well as its confidence in a long-term future of a U.S. energy market. When fully operational in spring 2012, a brand new gas turbine factory will complete Siemens' Charlotte Energy Hub, which in this one location will provide a engineering, manufacturing, servicing as well as other support functions related to a supply of Siemens' highly efficient gas as well as steam turbines as well as generators to markets around a world. See video from Siemens at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/siemens/charlotte/ "Today marks an important milestone for Siemens Energy as well as for Charlotte," said Randy Zwirn, president as well as CEO of Siemens Energy, Inc. as well as CEO of a Energy Service Division. "This state-of-the-art gas turbine manufacturing facility represents a enlargement of our U.S. manufacturing footprint, a incredible opportunity for increasing American exports, as well as for creating even some-more highly skilled jobs in a region. It also further expands our capabilities to help our customers optimize their investments as well as competitively generate electricity to meet a nation's growing needs. Nearly 50% of a work in both a steam turbine-generator as well as gas turbine factories is for servicing customer-owned equipment or manufacturing replacement elements for existing plants." Zwirn added, "We would like to thank a North Carolina as well as Charlotte government leaders for their support in helping to make this enlargement possible." "As a global market leader in a advanced! gas tur bine business, our investment in this brand new manufacturing facility in Charlotte is a bold move that further demonstrates Siemens' confidence in a U.S. as a right location for a global manufacturing hub," said Roland Fischer, CEO of a Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. "Despite a economic as well as policy uncertainties that exist, we are producing as well as exporting cleaner, some-more efficient energy generation solutions paramount to elucidate a world's energy challenges," continued Fischer. "This Charlotte facility will play a vital role in addressing increased demand for reliable, clean as well as affordable energy right here in a U.S. as well as around a world." At Siemens' newly-expanded Charlotte hub as well as at a company's gas turbine prolongation facility in Berlin, Germany, gas turbines can, as demand dictates, be manufactured at either location for both 60-Hz as well as 50-Hz markets. However, as Siemens' Americas hub, Charlotte will be primarily producing gas turbines for a Americas region as well as other 60-Hz markets, while Berlin is a main prolongation hub for 50-Hz gas turbines, designed for use in Europe as well as other 50-Hz markets. In March 2010, Siemens Energy announced it would expand its worldwide manufacturing as well as service center for energy generation equipment in Charlotte, adding gas turbine prolongation as well as service capabilities to an existing plant for electric generators as well as steam turbines as well as LEED Gold certified engineering facility. The groundbreaking for this state-of-the-art facility took place in October 2010. It was designed based on LEAN manufacturing principles as well as U.S. LEED Gold green building standards, making it a most advanced gas turbine prolongation plant in operation. The day also celebrated a first gas turbine leaving a stretched facility, an SGT6-5000F gas turbine that will be exported to a 250-megawatt La Caridad 1 combined cycle energy plant in Sonora State, Mexico. Officials from a customer, Grupo ! Mexico, joined Siemens at a grand opening as a turbine was prepared for shipping. During a ceremony, it was also announced that a Siemens Energy as well as Grupo Mexico signed an additional agreement to supply a second 250-megawatt combined cycle energy plant featuring a SGT6-5000F for its La Caridad 2 project, located adjacent to a La Caridad 1 plant. Siemens has exported some-more than $600 million worth of energy generation equipment from Charlotte. With a company's stretched prolongation capabilities, Siemens Charlotte expects to ramp up exports to some-more than $400 million annually to markets all over a world. This includes a SGT-8000H, a world's most efficient gas turbine in combined cycle. To staff a entire stretched Siemens Energy Charlotte facility, including an enlargement to a existing engineering facility, some-more than 700 high-skilled jobs have already been added to a nearly 700-person existing workforce, with 400 some-more to be hired by 2014. In addition, it is estimated that an additional 2,000 indirect jobs will be created as a result of a economic impact of this investment. Siemens has partnered with local universities as well as community colleges, including a University of North Carolina as well as Central Piedmont Community College, to offer skills assessment as well as training opportunities to prepare its stretched workforce with a advanced skills needed to operate a sophisticated prolongation systems, thus helping to ensure a company's high-quality, precision manufacturing specifications are met. Viewed by many as "the brand new energy capital of a U.S.," Charlotte is home to some-more than 250 energy-related companies, as well as with its enlargement Siemens Energy is now a largest equipment manufacturer. With a addition of gas turbines, Charlotte is Siemens Energy's North American hub, producing a full range of fossil energy generation equipment used by central station energy producers (generators, steam turbines as well as gas turbines). Siemens' Charlotte facility now boasts some-! more tha n one million square feet of space under roof, with 80- to100-foot high manufacturing bays as well as is operational 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. Siemens has operations as well as personnel in all 50 states as well as employs a total workforce of approximately 60,000 in a U.S., of which some-more than 2,300 work at 22 locations in a state of North Carolina. The Siemens Energy Sector is a world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services as well as solutions for energy generation in thermal energy plants as well as using renewables, energy transmission in grids as well as for a extraction, processing as well as transport of oil as well as gas. In fiscal 2011 (ended September 30), a Energy Sector had revenues of EUR27.6 billion as well as received brand new orders totaling approximately EUR34.8 billion as well as posted a profit of some-more than EUR4.1 billion. On September 30, 2011, a Energy Sector had a work force of some-more than 97,000. Further information is available at: www.siemens.com/energy.
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