Gurit Wins New Wind Turbine Customer
13 June 2017
13 June 2017
Gurit's Tooling business has won a major wind turbine OEM as a new customer.
Its first orders for wind blade mould systems amount to a total contract value of some CHF11 million and will be produced and supplied in 2017.
Gurit's Tooling division manufactures wind blade mould systems. With manufacturing sites in Taicang, China, and Szczecin, Poland, production capacity currently amounts to some 60 wind turbine blade mould sets per year.
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LM Wind Power's first two sets of LM 66.6 blades have been installed on Shanghai Electric Wind Power's 4.0 MW-136 wind turbine in China.