✦ LIBER ✦
Siemens Westinghouse pulls plug on Munhall plant
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
The decision to abandon the Munhall move was based on market realities, according to Thomas Flower, president of the company's Stationary Fuel Cells division. Since groundbreaking at the Munhall site in 2001, an economic slowdown has made potential customers less willing to take a risk on innovative -but expensive -fuel cell technology.
The 140 000 square foot (13 000 m 2 ) fuel cell operation in Churchill employs about 140