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| Siemens opens new wind turbine blade facility in Iowa Siemens Power Generation (PG) officially celebrated the grand opening of its new wind turbine blade factory in Fort Madison, Iowa, on September 21, 2007. The factory is expected to produce approximately 600 wind turbine blades per year, which will be shipped to wind farms in the U.S. It's the company's first manufacturing plant for wind turbine components in the U.S., for which the total investment is more than EUR20 million. Siemens established the 311,000-square-foot turbine blade manufacturing facility in Fort Madison to better meet the strong demand for clean wind energy in the U.S. Blades for the company's 2.3-MW wind turbines are manufactured at the new site. The first 148-foot-long, 12-ton blades were delivered to a customer site in Texas in August 2007. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |