Vestas has signed a multi-year framework agreement with turbine blades producer and partner TPI Composites (TPI) to bolster its scalable global supply chain network for blades.
Under the agreement Vestas and TPI will investigate further collaboration possibilities for the V163-4.5MW and V236-15.0MW turbines and assess the optimal manufacturing and production location setup for these new blades.
TPI and Vestas already work closely together on global manufacturing and supply chain operations, based on Vestas’ specifications and requirements.
TPI supplies blade variants to Vestas’ 2MW and 4MW platforms as well as the EnVentus platform.
It will continue supply of blades from its existing global production footprint, while “optimising the production setup” in existing facilities, but will also valuate new locations for possible future growth in strategic markets.
“The continued and expanded partnership highlights how we are increasingly collaborating with partners, and how we continue to evolve and re-shape the industry together.
“We have been working together with TPI since 2014 and during that time, they have become one of our most trusted and strategic blade partners.
“With this agreement, we are happy to continue this journey, leveraging their global footprint and providing scalable, high-quality, and sustainable supply together”, said Tommy Rahbek Nielsen, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Vestas.
Sharing manufacturing operations across the renewables industry is “more relevant than ever” to ensure sites are not sitting idle and creates a flexible, scalable, and efficient supply chain that enables industrial scale to meet global net-zero ambitions, Vestas stated.
“We are proud of our long and successful partnership with Vestas and are pleased that Vestas has chosen to further expand its relationship with TPI.
“We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the supply of current and future blade models, blade design, and other services globally,” added Bill Siwek, CEO, TPI Composites.