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builders to industrial companies, I started hiring more educated
craftsmen for the production.
8.5
Standard Components Available to All, No
Exclusive Sales
In 1979 the Wind Matic Company, which then produced the former
Riisager turbine, came for a meeting at Økær Vind Energi in order
to have us producing a special blade designed for Wind Matic solely.
I wanted to produce standard blades for all, and did not want to
use precious time for developing special designs and moulds for
blades that would be sold exclusively to one company. I declined
their ofer, and never became a supplier to Wind Matic. But soon
my order backlog was filled with orders from new companies
that wanted to make turbines, without having to bother with their
own blade development, and orders from Vestas, Nordtank and
Bonus dramatically increased.
This standard component concept was later continued, when
Coronet/Alternegy entered into a license agreement, and produced
my blades now named AeroStar in Denmark and the United
States. Besides Vestas, we soon delivered blades to Nordtank for
their 22 kW, and from 1981 7.5 m blades for their 55 kW turbine.
In December 1980 we delivered the first blades to Danregn Vind-
kraft, later named as Bonus Energy, and today known as Siemens
Wind Power.
Figure 8.11
Økær 7.5 m blade delivery in 1981.
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