Austintown company takes lead in developing wind turbine for ‘huge’ U.S. market

By Don Shilling

Roth Bros. of Austintown has teamed up with a new Akron area company on a wind turbine that’s designed for the rooftops of industrial plants, schools, retail plazas and big-city buildings.

“The market is huge,” said Paul Belair, president of Roth Bros.

He’s planning on adding more workers at Roth Bros., which employs 320 locally and provides energy management systems around the country.

Roth will assemble the unit and manufacture the frame in its Crum Road shop and send crews across the country to install the turbine and hook it up to a building’s electrical system.

Belair said Roth officials believe so much in the system that they have made a substantial investment to become part-owner.

Green Energy Technologies of Bath, Ohio, will unveil WindCube Tuesday at an industry trade show in Chicago.

The keys to WindCube are its size — 22 feet by 22 feet — and a design that doubles the speed of the wind as it hits the blades and allows the unit to shift into direction of the wind.

Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.