'Leveraging global footprint' | Vestas expands deal with US wind blade maker TPI

Vestas has signed a multi-year framework agreement with US blade maker TPI Composites to strengthen its global supply chain for current and future wind turbine blades.

“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,” Vestas chief operating officer Tommy Rahbek Nielsen said.

“With this agreement, we are happy to continue this journey, leveraging their global footprint and providing scalable, high-quality, and sustainable supply together.”

TPI is already supplying blades to the OEM’s 2 and 4MW machines, as well as its EnVentus platform of even bigger turbines from its existing global production facilities, and will evaluate new locations in strategic future growth markets.

The companies now are also investigating possibilities for the V163-4.5MW and V236-15.0MW turbines, and assessing the optimal manufacturing and production location setup for these new blades.

“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,” the blade maker’s chief executive Bill Siwek said.

“We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the supply of current and future blade models, blade design, and other services globally.”

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 stressed.