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| Acciona opens manufacturing facility at Lumbier (Navarre, Spain)  The President of the Navarre Regional Government, Miguel Sanz, opened Acciona's new wind turbine blade manufacturing facility at Lumbier, representing an investment of 25 million euros. The plant, which enhances the company's presence in the entire wind power value chain, will produce 34-meter and 37.5 meter blades for the AW-1500 wind turbine, which uses Acciona Windpower technology. It is expected to reach full production capacity in September: 450 blades a year produced by a workforce of 148 employees.The new plant occupies a constructed surface area of 12,000 m² in the Lumbier Industrial Park. Its production capacity is 450 blades a year, using in-house technology for the AW-1500 wind turbines (1.5 MW capacity each), manufactured by ACCIONA Windpower at its plants in Barásoain (Navarre) and La Vall D'Uixó (Castellón), in Spain; and West Branch (Iowa, USA). The facility has been designed for a possible future extension that will allow the manufacture of blades of up to 56.7 m. These will be installed on the 3 MW AW-3000 turbine, which is currently at the prototype stage. Acciona Blades, a subsidiary of Acciona Windpower dedicated to the manufacture of blades for wind turbines, will gradually increase its workforce: from 64 employees in May 2010 to 90 at present, and to 148 by the end of September, when the plant will reach its full production capacity. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |