MHI Vestas has signed a conditional contract with the partnership CS Wind/Chin Fong to make wind turbine towers in Taichung Harbour in Taiwan.
The agreement advances MHI Vestas’s localisation efforts ahead of its first projects in Taiwan, which included a deal with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners agreed yesterday.
MHI Vestas co-chief executive Lars Bondo Krogsgaard said: “Our activities this week underscore our strong commitment to the Taiwan offshore wind market and the build-up of a local supply chain.
“The localisation agreement signed yesterday with CIP, as well as the conditional tower contract we are signing today with CS Wind, and in partnership with Chin Fong, affirms that when there is a stable and visible pipeline of projects, MHI Vestas stands ready to invest and deliver on the promise of offshore wind in Taiwan.”
The partnership between CS Wind and Chin Fong brings together industrial players with experience in the wind turbine tower industry as well as local manufacturing expertise.
CS Wind co-chief executive Knud Bjarne Hansen said: “CS Wind has expanded its manufacturing bases as to follow our customers and to keep our position as a market leader in the global wind tower industry.
“We are delighted to have this valuable opportunity to capture a leading market position in the Taiwan offshore market as we have been doing in the European offshore market with offshore wind towers produced from our UK and Vietnam facilities.
“It is our great pleasure to be able to cooperate with Chin Fong and make use of their excellent facility within the Taichung Harbour to be the towers manufacturing facility going forward – Chin Fong has the local knowledge and CS Wind has the global towers manufacturing knowledge – an ideal combination in the support of the Taiwanese offshore wind power market.”