The Wall Street Transcript has published an in-depth interview with
Gregory Yurek, CEO of American Superconductor, in which he talks at
length about the company's future. The entire 3,600-word interview is
available free online at www.twst.com/ceos.htm. Yurek gives an
overview of the company: "The biggest challenge, we realized, was how
to convert these inherently brittle ceramic materials into usable
wires. We came up with a way to meet this challenge that has been
steadily refined and improved for more than a decade. Today we are
manufacturing these wires at our pilot manufacturing facility at a
rate of 500 kilometers a year. In fact, just last week we broke
ground to put up the world's first commercial HTS wire manufacturing
plant here in central Massachusetts, so we are poised to expand
rapidly over the next two years."
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