April 10, 2008
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The battery business is getting a strong jolt of expansion juice, particularly from the soaring popularity of hybrid electric vehicles. This week's issue of SiteNet Dispatch pinpoints where and why the battery industry has been growing in the last few years.

Charged Up: Led by President and CEO Thomas Neslage (pictured), battery-maker Cobasys has been expanding rapidly in its home state of Michigan and in Ohio, providing power for the world's rapidly growing fleet of hybrid electric vehicles.
Photo: Michigan Economic Development Corporation

This week's edition of the SiteNet Dispatch brings readers new and exclusive stories from the March 2008 Site Selection, including:

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A Place in the Sun: Schott Solar's maiden U.S. expansion found a roomy home at Albuquerque's Mesa del Sol master-planned community, where the German company plans to invest US$500 million and hire 1,500 employees.
There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes:
  • "Imprima Launches Office in Brussels"
  • "Faerch Inaugurates Plant in Czech Republic"
  • "Bank of Moscow to Open Serbian Subsidiary"
  • "Brabantia Chooses Latvia for New Plant"
  • "ArcelorMittal Opens Logistics Centre in Budapest"
Where in the World? What, you may well ask, is that humongous thing pictured here, and why is it sitting in the middle of that building? That, dear readers, is "the world's biggest banjo." Can you name the city that's home to this decidedly unconventional piece of storefront signage?

Copacetic clicking,

Jack Lyne
Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

Upcoming Conferences and Expositions of Note
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Saxony-Anhalt at Hanover Trade Fair from April 21 to 25, 2008

Once again, the leading industrial trade fair in Europe will be attended by high-performing and innovative companies, universities and the Investment- and Marketing Corporation Saxony-Anhalt (IMG).

The Hanover Trade Fair is reputed to be the leading marketplace for pioneering technologies, materials and ideas. Visitors will be able to see for themselves the strength and innovative power of Saxony-Anhalt's industry, exemplified by MABA Spezialmaschinenbau GmbH, presenting a new coating plant; ENERCON, the market-leading manufacturer of wind power plants in Germany; and Stahlbau Brehna GmbH, which will take its current prestige project, supply of steel structures for the new Porsche plant in Leipzig, to Hanover.

A Saxony-Anhalt Day will be held on the fair's opening day. Guests from politics, business and academia are invited to also visit the joint participation stand of Chamber of Industry and Commerce Halle-Dessau and IMG in Hall 4, F10.

www.invest-in-saxony-anhalt.com

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