Plant investment amounts to 130 million and will create 600 jobs in the region, where the firm specialised in the offshore wind sector already has five other production centres in operation.
Windar Renovables has recently started adaptation work on the land it acquired last March on the right bank of the Avilés estuary in Asturias.
Once the work is completed, Windar will invest more than 130 million euros, which will be used to adapt a large part of the existing buildings, as well as to build new facilities, already adapted to the manufacture of monopiles for new generation wind turbines, which have an installed capacity of more than 15 MW.
To accomplish this milestone, the multinational will install several production lines with the capacity to manufacture monopiles of up to 12.5 metres in diameter, 3,500 tonnes and 130 metres in length. The factory will have an annual capacity of between 100 and 120 monopiles, whose potential destination will be mainly wind farms to be installed in the North and Baltic Seas, as well as the East Coast of the United States.
Windar has already set out to dismantle existing equipment and is expediting demolition and construction permits, with the aim of having the new factory ready to start monopile production in 2027.
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