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GRI to start manufacturing wind towers in Cape Town in H2 2014

31st January 2014

By: Leandi Kolver

Creamer Media Deputy Editor

  

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Multisector company Corporación Gestamp’s wind industrial division, GRI Renewable Industries, will start manufacturing wind towers at its new manufacturing facility in Cape Town during the second half of this year, the company said last week.

The €22-million facility, aimed at contrib-uting to the strong development of renewable-energy markets in South Africa through the supply of wind towers, will have the capacity to manufacture 150 towers a year and will create more than 200 jobs.

“With this new facility, GRI consolidates its position in the South African market, [a] factor that will enable the business to deploy and share its know-how [with] the local market,” GRI CEO Javier Imaz said.

Further, the Gestamp group will also, through its subsidiary, Gestamp Wind, be constructing a €160-million 75 MW wind farm on the Noblesfontein farm, in the Karoo, as part of the the first window of the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), and is hoping to be awarded another 100.8 MW wind project submitted in the third round of the REIPPPP’s public tender process.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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