Germany-based Nordex Group (www.nordex-online.com) has broken ground on the construction of a new concrete tower factory in Castilla-La Mancha on a 12-hectare site. Following completion in August the Group will create around 300 new jobs while creating a further 200 jobs in the local supply chain.

José Luis Blanco, CEO of the Nordex Group, said: “This plant will also mean additional employment opportunities in Castilla-La Mancha as a business centre. All in all, several hundred people will be employed at the site.

“But the new factory will also give a significant boost to the upstream and downstream sectors. In addition to creating jobs, with our turbine technology we are able to efficiently ensure the success of our customers’ wind energy projects and so make our contribution to a long-term clean and sustainable energy supply.”

Like the eleven plants for tower manufacture established by the Nordex Group around the world, the new factory is also based on a mobile concept and is always close to wind farms. In future, Nordex will supply wind farms under construction in the region, thus shortening transport routes and times and thereby reducing logistics costs.

Every week the 20m long, convex segments for two 120m towers can be manufactured in the plant, to be assembled on-site at the wind farms when the wind turbines are installed.

The Nordex Group has 14 years' of experience in the manufacture of concrete towers for wind turbines and to-date has produced in excess of 1,000 concrete towers.

The company offers its AW3000 turbines with hub heights of 80, 100, 120 and 140m as well as the turbines in the Delta4000 series with a hub height of 120m.