I put together some clips from Vice President Biden’s trip to Cree last week. The video features some of his remarks, along with interviews from employees who got to meet with the vice president and comments from our CEO Chuck Swoboda:
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Video recap of Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Cree
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Live Blogging Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Cree in Durham, NC
Thursday, March 18th, 2010We will begin event coverage at approximately noon EST today! Vice President Biden will speak at our manufacturing plant to discuss middle class issues, including creating good manufacturing jobs and building the clean energy economy.
In case you don’t know, Cree is an LED chip and LED lighting manufacturer in Durham, NC. Our company mission is to obsolete energy-wasting light bulbs, including incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. You can learn more at CreeLEDRevolution.com or follow @Cree on Twitter.
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to visit Cree on Thursday
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010My boss has been talking in hushed whispers and racing around our campus. I couldn’t wait for her to break her silence so I could find out what was going on. Turns out Vice President Joe Biden wanted to visit our Durham, NC, manufacturing campus. Since then she has had her hands full with arranging access and taking care of the many details that come along with having our country’s No. 2 leader stop by for a visit.
The Vice President will tour and make remarks at Cree on Thursday. For those of you who don’t know, Cree manufactures LEDs and energy-efficient LED lights. Our company mission is to obsolete energy-wasting light bulbs, including incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. We strongly believe that the cleanest, cheapest energy is the energy you never use. And the Department of Energy estimates that widespread adoption of LED lighting by 2025 will reduce electricity demands from lighting by 62 percent.
We’re working hard to educate the public about this energy-efficient technology. And we’re thrilled that our company is growing. We anticipate adding another 300 American jobs during the next several years, in addition to the many jobs we added in 2009. Cree received a $39 million Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help purchase new equipment and bring these new jobs to our North Carolina manufacturing facility to increase production.
So we can’t wait to show off our campus and hard working employees to the vice president and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who will be accompanying Biden on the trip. We’ve been told the pair is interested in hearing from our employees about the challenges and issues they face in their day-to-day lives.
I’ll be live tweeting the remarks made by Vice President Biden and Energy Secretary Chu (along with other observations about what it’s like to have the Vice President come to your company for the day). You can follow along on Twitter, we’ll use the hashtag #BidenCree. In the meantime, you can learn more about the LED lighting Revolution here.
