Vestas Breaks Ground in Brighton
Reported by CEN Staff
BRIGHTON - Vestas Wind Systems today started breaking ground in Brighton on two new manufacturing facilities that, according to the Danish manufacturer, will eventually employ more than 1300 workers.
Royalty sightings at today’s event include Denmark’s crown prince and princess of Denmark, who joined Gov. Ritter and a handful of other notables. The two facilities include a wind turbine blade manufacturing process which will employ roughly 650 people, and a nacelle assembly plant with 700 employees, Vestas said. Both are expected to be operational sometime next year.
Vestas launched its foray into the U.S. (and Colorado) market in 2008 with a turbine blade factory in Windsor. That facility has since been expanded, for a total value of about $100 million. Vestas is also constructing a $250 million plant in Pueblo that will produce tower structures for wind turbines. A Vestas-sponsored job fair at the Pueblo site earlier this month attracted an overflow crowd.
Based in Randers, Denmark, Vestas is the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines used to produce electricity.
Crown Prince Frederik André Henrik Christian, and his wife, the Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth, are visiting the United States to emphasize Danish-U.S. cultural and historical ties as well as on renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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