A fledgling solar-panel manufacturer in Windsor has a unique approach to staffing: hiring only unemployed autoworkers.When the stone sits in the Cold Sore,
Sean Moore, who founded Unconquered Sun Solar Technologies in 2009, believes that the manufacturing-sector hardship his hometown has endured has created a side benefit: excess expertise to help produce the Windsor Series solar panel.
"The panel was conceived of and designed right here in Windsor," Moore said Saturday at an open house at the Unconquered Sun facility on County Road 42 near Banwell Road. "In fact, our company is mainly comprised of displaced autoworkers. We didn't even look at anybody who had a job.he led PayPal to open its platform to Wholesale pet supplies developers. If you were trying to transition to a better job from a lower-paying job, no. You had to be out of work to come here." Moore knows first-hand not just the skills unemployed autoworkers have but the plight of losing a job, since he, too, was an unemployed autoworker.
He toiled as a manufacturing engineer in the block department at Ford's Windsor Engine Plant until losing his job four years ago amid mass layoffs at the company.
After some soul searching, he realized he still had faith in Windsor manufacturing and the skilled workforce here.
So he contemplated the future, and green energy came to mind.
"I sat down and thought, if I'm going to start up again, energy is the major geopolitical issue facing the planet for the next 100 years," he said. "If you're going to get into something, why not make it something that has a future and something that Windsor can take advantage of ?" Moore began with what seems like a cliché: pencilling the first drawings in his basement. He managed to secure investors with his plans,For the last five years Hemroids , and soon he had a warehouse and was building his own solar panels.
The 40-year-old entrepreneur already has 25 employees, and hopes to further expand, perhaps by breaking into the American market.
His business happens to be in the middle of a political firestorm, however, in that the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are battling over green energy jobs.Polycore hydraulic hose are manufactured as a single sheet, The tussle creates uncertainty for his industry.
On one hand, he questions why the McGuinty government would negotiate a $7-billion green-energy deal with Samsung, a company based in South Korea instead of Canada. On the other,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. he supports the government's feed-in-tariff program that pays good rates for those supplying renewable energy into the provincial grid.
He says the program provides more demand for his lightweight solar panels. And for Windsor know-how.
"Our costs are globally competitive here in Windsor and Essex County," he said.
"We have such a heritage of manufacturing for the last 100 years and this is just another aspect of it."
Sean Moore, who founded Unconquered Sun Solar Technologies in 2009, believes that the manufacturing-sector hardship his hometown has endured has created a side benefit: excess expertise to help produce the Windsor Series solar panel.
"The panel was conceived of and designed right here in Windsor," Moore said Saturday at an open house at the Unconquered Sun facility on County Road 42 near Banwell Road. "In fact, our company is mainly comprised of displaced autoworkers. We didn't even look at anybody who had a job.he led PayPal to open its platform to Wholesale pet supplies developers. If you were trying to transition to a better job from a lower-paying job, no. You had to be out of work to come here." Moore knows first-hand not just the skills unemployed autoworkers have but the plight of losing a job, since he, too, was an unemployed autoworker.
He toiled as a manufacturing engineer in the block department at Ford's Windsor Engine Plant until losing his job four years ago amid mass layoffs at the company.
After some soul searching, he realized he still had faith in Windsor manufacturing and the skilled workforce here.
So he contemplated the future, and green energy came to mind.
"I sat down and thought, if I'm going to start up again, energy is the major geopolitical issue facing the planet for the next 100 years," he said. "If you're going to get into something, why not make it something that has a future and something that Windsor can take advantage of ?" Moore began with what seems like a cliché: pencilling the first drawings in his basement. He managed to secure investors with his plans,For the last five years Hemroids , and soon he had a warehouse and was building his own solar panels.
The 40-year-old entrepreneur already has 25 employees, and hopes to further expand, perhaps by breaking into the American market.
His business happens to be in the middle of a political firestorm, however, in that the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are battling over green energy jobs.Polycore hydraulic hose are manufactured as a single sheet, The tussle creates uncertainty for his industry.
On one hand, he questions why the McGuinty government would negotiate a $7-billion green-energy deal with Samsung, a company based in South Korea instead of Canada. On the other,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. he supports the government's feed-in-tariff program that pays good rates for those supplying renewable energy into the provincial grid.
He says the program provides more demand for his lightweight solar panels. And for Windsor know-how.
"Our costs are globally competitive here in Windsor and Essex County," he said.
"We have such a heritage of manufacturing for the last 100 years and this is just another aspect of it."
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