Gestamp Renewables to build steel facility in Surprise

Gestamp Renewables will set up shop in Surprise in a new building designed to build steel for large solar projects around the state and the Southwest. The project, announced Tuesday afternoon, will employ 50 people in the project’s first phase of 75,000 square feet. The building will be about 300,000 square feet when completed. City officials said the project would bring in about 100 construction jobs, and Spain-based Gestamp eventually would employ 300 at the factory. The steel would be used in both concentrated solar power plants as well as photovoltaic projects. The facility will be both a factory and the U.S. headquarters for the company. Gestamp Corp. has plants in 25 countries and its subsidiaries include Gestamp Renewables and Gestamp Solar Steel. The announcement is the second solar business to locate in Surprise. Last fall, Rioglass Solar announced it would build a facility in the West Valley city designed to manufacture mirrors for concentrated solar power plants.

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