Serious Materials opens a green-technology plant in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, bringing back jobs after a local factory closure left 150 workers unemployed. Kevin Surace frames the venture as a community rebirth, emphasizing that green jobs are high-paying and can't be outsourced.
Green jobs are the jobs of the future, not just because they pay well and can't be outsourced, and not just because they help strengthen our economy and lift up our middle class, but because they help us reduce our dependence on foreign oil and may just save this This planet for our children. Thank you.
You know, 6 months ago, this plant shut down, putting 150 people out of work in this town. I know it was a tremendous body blow for Vandergrift to see a cornerstone of this community close up shop. But today we start rebuilding. Today we write a new beginning to this story. This is more than just a job to me. It's also doing our small part in this tiny corner of America to move this country forward.
It is time to fight back, and it is time for hope. And one of the reasons that I came here today is not only because it's such a great announcement, not only because Sirius is such a good visionary company, but because there's good news. And amidst all the bad news, there is good news out there. And it's up to us as leaders, it's up to us as citizens to take that good news and run with it. Thank you.
