"It matters where things are made and nobody makes it better than Michigan," Senator Debbie Stabenow, (D-MI.) said.

As of Monday, nobody casts hubs and other components for wind turbines faster than Dowding Industries Astraeus Wind in Eaton Rapids.

"It's the fastest in the world," Jeff Metts, president of Dowding Industries Astraeus Wind, said.

Senator Stabenow, joined by leaders in business and labor, announced a machine that produces the space needed to connect parts of a wind turbine. This machine is not a new idea, but the speed in which it works is record-setting.

"So we developed a machine that could take the process time from 30 hours down to four and a half," Metts said.

The facility where the machine is housed, when at full capacity, could being in roughly 200 new jobs to Eaton Rapids. This announcement is the first by Bluegreen Apollo Alliance's Michigan Green Manufacturing Action Plan (GreenMap).

"The bluegreen alliance road map is sort of a policy agenda to bring those jobs back to Michigan," Skip Pruss, with the GreenMap project, said.

GreenMap gives recommendations to advance clean-energy manufacturing jobs in different states. Several companies have already been in contact with Dowding Industries because of the machine's capabilities.

"That's where you begin to attract other companies," Metts added. "They want you to do their work because you're doing it better than anybody else in the world."

Leaders at Monday's event think the potential from the machine could have impacts outside of Michigan.

"This is a huge export opportunity," Pruss said. "1.5 billion people in the world don't have electricity today, but they will tomorrow."