MHI Vestas has completed the foundation work at its Fawley Paint & Logistics Facility in Hampshire, UK.
According to MHI Vestas, the facility is scheduled for opening in mid-2018, after which the company will begin painting its 80-meter turbine blades and storing them on the site.
In November last year, the company announced it will repurpose the decommissioned Fawley Power Plant into a new painting and logistics facility for the 80m blades.
MHI Vestas said the investment is a direct result of a strong demand for the V164 offshore wind turbine platform, and the new facility will complement the company’s manufacturing facility on the Isle of Wight , UK, where the blades are produced.
The Fawley facility is the latest in a series of production investments MHI Vestas made as part of its industrialization strategy, including an increase in production capacity on the Isle of Wight , as well as in Danish manufacturing centers in Nakskov and Lindø.