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Dorit Davidovich-Banet , CEO of the Eilat-Eilot renewable energy initiative

Wire cuts

Solar tender

Citing the pressures of cheap imports as a primary cause, OneSteel Wire at Jindera will be making an unspecified number of job cuts. The company will be looking to source gates, rather than making them on site. A spokesman for OneSteel Wire said he could not confirm how many workers would be affected by changes at the business, or when they would happen, but the decision to cut jobs was necessary to keep the business running. “We’ve been going through a program of integrating our steel business from two businesses – manufacturing and distribution – into a single steel business,” he said. “But we also look at where the growth areas are. Businesses are opened up and closed based on demand in different areas; that’s what happens when you run a national operation.” The factory will continue to manufacture other goods including silos, rural fencing and accessories and other farming products. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of steel products including hot rolled structural sections, rail, rod, bar, wire and structural pipe and RHS products, and distributes sheet and coil, plate and aluminum products.

Israel’s Eilat-Eilot renewable energy initiative will issue a tender to set up and operate the Timna Solar Park, a new 50MW PV tracker solar energy field in southern Israel. The new solar park will be located on a 247-acre plot of land adjacent to the site of the former Timnamines, approximately 28km north of Eilat. The tender will be open only to PV tracker solar systems and the cost of the bid will cover only the acquisition of the land. The tariff per installed kilowatt has already been determined by the government of Israel, according to regulations established in 2012 for solar energy harvested by PV systems. “We are very proud to announce this tender for the Timna Solar Park and significantly expand the amount of solar energy produced in the Arava and Eilat regions, which currently stands at 65 megawatts,” explained Dorit Davidovich-Banet, CEO of the Eilat-Eilot renewable energy initiative and chairperson of the Eilat-Eilot green energy conference.

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