WinWinD

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WinWinD Ltd
Industry Wind power industry
Founded 2000
Headquarters Espoo, Finland
Key people
P Kumar, Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Products Wind turbines
Number of employees
800
Parent WinWinD Oy
Subsidiaries Winwind Power Energy Private Limited
Footnotes / references
www.winwind.com

WinWinD was a wind turbine manufacturer headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It manufactured and supplied wind turbines with capacity of 1 and 3 MW.

The company was founded in 2000 in Oulu. In 2006, Chinnakannan Sivasankaran's Siva Group of India acquired majority control in WinWinD.[1] In September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) invested €120million in WinWinD acquiring 40% stake of the company.[2][3][4] In addition to Siva and Masdar, the Finnish investment fund Suomen Teollisuussijoitus (Finnish Industry Investment) has a stake in WinWinD.[1][5]

WinWinD has assembly factories in Hamina, Finland, and Chennai, India.[4] It employs more than 800 people globally. In addition to Finland,[6] WinWinD turbines produce energy in Sweden,[7] Estonia,[8] France, Portugal, the Czech Republic and India.

Hamina factory

WinWinD started up a 3 MW wind turbine manufacturing facility at Port of Hamina in 2009.[5][9]

Vengal factory

WinWinD's 1 MW turbines and blades are manufactured at Vengal, India since September 2009.[1]

Turbines

  • WWD-1 (1 MW wind turbine)
  • WWD-3 (3 MW wind turbine)
  • WinWinD3 (3 MW wind turbine)

See also

References

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