ESAB Welding & Cutting Products, a provider of welding and cutting solutions, announced that it received its largest ever, single-customer order for welding and cutting equipment and consumables.
Vestas Towers A/S, a wind tower manufacturer that is part of Vestas Wind Systems A/S of Denmark, gave ESAB a multi-million dollar order for equipment that will be part of Vestas Towers’ wind tower manufacturing facility in Colorado.
Nazmi Adams, global marketing director for ESAB Holdings, said his company won the business as a result of its long-standing relationships with leading wind tower manufacturers, its ability to develop customized engineering solutions, its global footprint, as well as being the only welding and cutting company able to supply the complete product range.
ESAB will supply the complete equipment and consumables package, and the full order comprises automated cutting equipment manufactured by ESAB in Florence, N.C., heavy automation welding equipment manufactured by ESAB in Sweden and positioning and handling equipment supplied by ESAB’s newly acquired facility in Singapore.
The column and boom equipment will include ESAB’s latest telescopic technology that is designed to use less factory floor space to deliver productivity and capital outlay advantages.
In addition, ESAB said it is well positioned to supply the welding consumables after the wind tower factory comes into production.
The full equipment package is to be delivered and installed during 2009.
Vestas Towers has said its Colorado tower factory will be the world's largest. It is to be built near the company’s a blade-manufacturing facility in Windsor, Colo., which was opened in March 2008.
