On the final countdown to his inauguration, president-elect Barack Obama will promote his economic recovery plans with a visit to a plant in Ohio making wind turbine parts, his office said Wednesday.
On Friday, Obama will tour the factory operated by Cardinal Fastener and Specialty Co. in Bedford Heights, Ohio to tout his agenda for economic renewal through hefty government investment in areas such as clean energy.
"President-elect Obama will discuss how companies like Cardinal Fastener and workers like those in Bedford Heights would benefit from an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, which would aim to create nearly half a million American jobs by investing in clean energy like wind power," a statement said.
Cardinal Fastener bills itself as the biggest US manufacturer of large steel fasteners used in the construction of wind turbines, which form part of Obama's plan to double US production of alternative energy in three years.
His visit to Ohio will precede a weekend of pre-inauguration activity before he is sworn in as the 44th president on Tuesday.
On Saturday Obama is scheduled to board a train in Philadelphia and stop in Delaware to collect his vice president-elect, Joseph Biden, before heading to Baltimore and then Washington.
The journey will emulate a pre-inauguration train tour by Obama's political hero, Civil War president Abraham Lincoln, and on Sunday he will kick off the official inaugural activities with an event at Washington's Lincoln Memorial.
