Hansen Partners with Outland
Outland Renewable Energy to be Authorized On-site Service Provider in North America for Hansen Service Wind
CANBY, Minn. (September 8, 2009) Outland Renewable Energy, LLC (Outland) and Hansen Transmissions International nv officials announced this week in a meeting at Hansen manufacturing headquarters in Lommel, Belgium that Outland has been selected to be an authorized on-site service provider in North America for Hansen Service Wind.
Outland, headquartered in Canby, MN, will form a dedicated team of wind technicians to provide on-site service support for the nearly 6,000 Hansen wind turbine gearboxes located on wind energy farms throughout North America. Hansen Transmissions is the second largest wind turbine gearbox manufacturer in the world.
Over the last 30 years Hansen Transmissions, headquartered in Edegem, Belgium, has supplied over 20,000 gearboxes for wind turbine applications. Hansen has recently established a dedicated service division for its wind business called “Hansen Service Wind” which is working together with its customers to develop competitive business models based upon well-balanced allocation of production resources between new products and aftermarket services.
Steve Scott, Outland president and COO, said, “Our partnership with Hansen Service Wind confirms Outland’s position as one of the most trusted and respected wind energy companies in North America. My hat goes off to each and every Outland employee, with a special thanks to our outstanding wind technicians in the field. Their ability to repair and maintain wind turbines with minimal incident, accident or injury is the primary reason Hansen chose Outland as their service partner. This partnership will drive continued aggressive growth for Outland throughout North America.”
Outland’s field services division is the largest service provider to the wind industry in Minnesota and one of the largest in the United States. The company provides construction, commissioning and maintenance services to OEM’s and project owners throughout North American. “The close cooperation with Outland is a first and important step in widening the geographic footprint of the Hansen Service Wind division. The North American market has a very strong medium- to long term growth potential. In 2010 we will further expand our service activities by setting up a Hansen Service Centre in North America for servicing and upgrading our gearboxes.”, says Dr. Jan Declercq, Director Business Development, Sales & Marketing at Hansen Transmissions.
About Hansen Transmissions
Hansen Transmissions International nv is an established global wind turbine gearbox and industrial gearbox designer, manufacturer and supplier, with a leading position (by MW supplied) in the wind turbine gearbox market. The company supplies gearboxes to the largest manufacturers of gear-driven wind turbines globally and provides durable gear drives for a wide range of industrial applications throughout the world. Hansen plans to increase its wind turbine gearbox manufacturing capabilities, from 3,800 MW per annum in the financial year 2007 to 14,300 MW, by financial year 2013. In addition to its principal manufacturing facilities in Belgium – comprising a wind turbine and industrial gearbox plant in Edegem (Antwerp) and a fully integrated state-of-the-art dedicated wind turbine gearbox manufacturing facility in Lommel (Limburg) – Hansen has a +95,000m² production plant for wind turbine gearboxes in Coimbatore, India and started the construction, in September 2008, of a production plant for wind turbine gearboxes for the Chinese market on a 250,000m² site in the Beichen Hi-tech Industrial park in Tianjin. Hansen has strong research and development operations to maintain its technological leadership and employs over 2,400 people worldwide.
For more information, visit www.hansentransmissions.com