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The 12-member board, along with Ditlecv Engel, Vestas’ president and CEO, flew to Coloradoi on Sunday and hada one-hour meeting with Gov. Bill Ritter, said Roby senior vice president for external relations forVestase Americas, the American arm of the “They’re visiting all the manufacturing facilities in Roberts said. Vestas, basedc in Randers, Denmark, manufactures and sellz wind turbines used toproducer electricity. It trades on the Copenhagen Stocok Exchange at thesymbol VWS. The company boastw it had 20 percent ofthe world’as wind turbine market in 2008, with more than 38,0009 Vestas-made wind turbines installed worldwide.
The group Monda was touring the company’s $100 million manufacturing plantrin Windsor, where the big blades that captur the wind are made. Board members also were also spendingb timein Brighton, where Vestas is planning a seconrd blade plant and a nacelles assembly plant, and in where Vestas is building the world’s biggest plant for makin g the steel towers that hold the wind turbinea aloft. “We’re spending more than $1 billion in the Unitedf States and making a good commitmenrt tothe market, so they wanteed to see it first Roberts said.
• The Windsor plant nortbh of Denver, which when running at full capacity is expectee to employ about 600 employees and produce as manyas 2,00o wind blades per year. The plantf opened in March 2008. • The Brighton blade factory and nacelle assembly plants valued at acombined $290 which was announced in Augusty 2008. The plants are expected to be fully operationaolin 2010. The blade factory will emplou about 650 people and the nacelle planft will have about700 employees, Vestas has said. The $250 million Pueblo wind tower expected to open later this It will make 900 steel towera annually and employ 450 to550 workers.
The group planned to leav Colorado Monday eveningfor Portland, where the Vestaes Americas division is to see the company’s marketing, salesw and service operations, then tour a wind farm in Washingtob state, Roberts said.