Arcosa Wind Towers, a major wind tower manufacturer, is opening a production facility in Belen.

The New Mexico Economic Development Department said Arcosa plans to buy the old Keter Plastics building and a Burlington Northern rail spur along Highway 304 in the Rio Grande Industrial Park. The location will help the company fulfill an expected $750 million in orders.

“The transition to clean energy brings with it more diversified, higher-paying and skilled jobs,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said, per KRQE. “Arcosa is repurposing an old factory for new investments in our state and our communities. This is a win-win.”

The company expects to hire 250 employees to fulfill the millions in orders.

“We look forward to expanding our manufacturing capacity to New Mexico, where market demand for new wind projects is robust,” Antonio Carrillo, President and CEO of Arcosa, Inc., said. “Our new facility will strengthen our position in the wind-tower market and enable Arcosa to benefit from growing wind investment in the Southwest. We are pleased to create new jobs in the State of New Mexico, which has been a supportive partner and a strong proponent of wind-energy development.”

According to its website, Arcosa is “a provider of infrastructure-related products and solutions with leading brands serving the construction, engineered structures, and transportation markets.”

 Arcosa, headquartered in Dallas, also serves a broad spectrum of infrastructure-related markets, according to the website, and is strategically focused on driving organic and disciplined acquisition growth to capitalize on the fragmented nature of many of the industries in which it operates.

Since 2000, Arcosa Wind Towers, formerly Trinity Structural Towers, Inc., has partnered with industry leaders to advance America’s wind energy infrastructure. Since its inception, AWT has used knowledge in the fabrication of tubular steel structures to set industry-wide standards in the important areas of safety, quality, delivery and cost.