LM Glasfiber (Lunderskov, Denmark) has opened a second Chinese wind turbine blade factory, in Urumqi, and a second Indian location, in Dabaspet, Karnataka. In its first phase, the Chinese facility is expected to produce 500 blades per year and employ 200 people. The Indian facility will make 800 blades per year and employ 400 people. The facilities are, respectively, LM Glasfiber’s 10th and 11th worldwide, and they complete the company’s 1-GW capacity expansion program for 2007.

Urumqi is the home of wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., with which LM Glasfiber signed a strategic cooperation agreement earlier in 2007. Urumqi is a city of 2.1 million, located in the large, sparsely populated Xinjiang autonomous region in northwest China. Said to be one of the country’s richest resources for wind energy, the region also has one of the best-developed wind industrial bases. The first blades from this factory will be supplied for Goldwind turbines in the Da Ban Cheng windfarm, near Xinjiang. The facility is the largest in China and has 200 turbines, with a total installed generating capacity of 100 MW.