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Nextracker and Unimacts Dedicate Second Nevada Factory to Serve Solar Power Demand
Growing Solar Demand in Southwest U.S. Prompts Second Factory Built in Less Than a Year LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nextracker (Nasdaq: NXT), a global
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nGrowing Solar Demand in Southwest U.S. Prompts Second Factory Built in Less Than a Year\n\n\n LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNextracker (Nasdaq: NXT), a global market leader in solar tracker and software solutions, and Unimacts (UNX), a leading provider of industrial manufacturing and supply chain solutions, today jointly announced a new factory in the Las Vegas area.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240618375390/en/Unimact’s steel line worker preparing critical steel components for solar power generation projects in the southwestern U.S. (Photo: Nextracker)\nThis is the second Nextracker-dedicated manufacturing line that Unimacts has opened in the last year. The new, 160,000-square-foot facility in Sloan, Nevada, produces steel torque tubes used to hold and rotate solar panels in solar power plants. The two factories will support more than 2 GW of new solar power each year, equivalent to the energy used by 400,000 U.S. homes.\n\n\nWith the Sloan factory, Nextracker continues its drive to reshore manufacturing to meet growing solar and renewable energy demand. The company has opened or expanded over 20 U.S. manufacturing facilities since 2021, including new or expanded dedicated production lines in Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee and Nevada.\n\n\n“In partnership with Nextracker and Unimacts, Copia Power is building a renewably powered future. The transition to clean energy in America can be built with American-made products and constructed with local tradespersons, and that is the type of economic growth we are seeing here today,” said Ryan Galeria, Copia Power, chief development officer. “Copia is proud to supply reliable, clean and affordable renewable power to millions of Americans in the coming years.”\n\n\n“American manufacturing has quickly become the heartbeat of the clean energy revolution,” said Dan Shugar, founder and CEO of Nextracker. “There is a trifecta of perfect conditions for this manufacturing renaissance: a terrific workforce, a great localized clean steel industry, and strong demand for renewable energy. Over the last three years, Nextracker has operationalized over 20 factories, catalyzing thousands of jobs. This is what growth and scaling look like.”\n\n\n“Unimacts is proud to play a role in providing key com...