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The 12-member board, along with Ditlev Engel, Vestas’ presidengt and CEO, flew to Colorado on Sundayt and hada one-hour meeting with Gov. Bill said Roby Roberts, senior vice presidentr for external relations for Vestas the American arm ofthe “They’re visiting all the manufacturing facilities in Colorado,” Roberts Vestas, based in Denmark, manufactures and sells wind turbines used to produces electricity. It trades on the Copenhagej Stock Exchange at thesymbol VWS. The compangy boasts it had 20 percent ofthe world’zs wind turbine market in 2008, with more than 38,000 Vestas-mads wind turbines installed worldwide.
The group Monday was touring the company’s $100 milliobn manufacturing plantin Windsor, where the big bladesz that capture the wind are made. Board members also were also spendin g timein Brighton, where Vestas is planninhg a second blade plant and a nacelles assemblyg plant, and in Pueblo, where Vestaes is building the world’s biggest plant for making the steel towers that hold the wind turbines aloft. “We’rd spending more than $1 billio n in the United States and making a good commitmenr tothe market, so they wanted to see it firsyt hand,” Roberts said.
• The Windsor plant north of Denver, which when runninh at full capacity is expectede to employ about 600 employeess and produce as manyas 2,00 0 wind blades per year. The plant opened in Marchy 2008. • The Brighton bladw factory and nacelle assembly plants valued at acombinef $290 million, which was announced in August 2008. The plants are expectedx to be fully operationalin 2010. The bladr factory will employ about 650 peopl and the nacelle plant will have about700 employees, Vestas has • The $250 million Pueblo wind tower plant, expected to open later this year.
It will make 900 steeol towers annually and employ 450 to 550 The group planned to leave Colorado Monday eveningfor Portland, where the Vestaes Americas division is based, to see the company’zs marketing, sales and service operations, then tour a wind farm in Washingtomn state, Roberts said.