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Orlando Alonso, President of Windar Renovables, receives the annual award of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Ferrolterra, Eume and Ortegal.

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“Northwest Spain will become a world leader in the manufacture of structures” for offshore wind farms. This was predicted by the Executive Chairman of Windar Renovables, Orlando Alonso, who this afternoon received the annual award from the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Ferrolterra, Eume and Ortegal (Cofer). The award ceremony took place this afternoon in Ferrol, in the presence of the first vice-president of the Xunta, Francisco Conde, the mayor of Ferrol, Ángel Mato, the president of the business organisation, Cristóbal Dobarro, and a number of other figures.

He thanked the award and acknowledged the Group’ s thousands of employees for its success. He also recalled that his company “was born in Avilés and we were the first Spanish company to enter the vast field” of offshore wind power. I honestly believe,” he said, “that we are an example of how things done with humility and perseverance come to fruition. 

For Windar’s chairman, the keys to its success stand out “for its capacity for entrepreneurship, with its sights set on the exterior, but also seeking alliances with other companies that strengthen both”. In this regard, he cited the collaboration with Navantia, “a strategic alliance with which we started in 2015”, which “we have been strengthening year after year” and with which “we hope to have a long road ahead of us”.

We expect “great growth” in fixed-based offshore wind power, which is why, in partnership with Navantia, Windar Renovables is promoting a new factory at the Fene shipyard that “will be the fifth in Europe with the capacity to manufacture these structures, along with two others in Germany, one in Holland and another in Denmark. In this way we are contributing, together with Navantia Seanergies, to making northwest Spain a world leader in the manufacture of offshore structures”.

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