Wind tower manufacturer CS Wind Canada is temporarily closing its plant in Windsor, Ontario this summer “due to a gap between production orders”.
Most of the company’s 345 workers will be off the job during a six-week shutdown from 25 July to about 6 September.
The company has “new major contracts” and production will restart in September, said human resources and general affairs manager Donna Kinsman-Jackson.
“CS Wind expects to be very busy for the remainder of the year and next,” said Kinsman-Jackson.
The company tried to “pull some of these orders forward to avoid a summer shutdown, but they could not be moved ahead as we hoped,” said Kinsman-Jackson.
The manufacturer, a subsidiary of Korea-headquartered CS Wind, was attracted to Ontario by the province’s feed-in tariff program and domestic content requirements.
The 48-acre Windsor facility started producing towers in 2011 as a manufacturing partner of Samsung Renewable Energy. CS Wind is supplying Samsung’s 1069MW wind power portfolio as well as other projects in Ontario and other markets.
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