With a 23 per cent share of the global market, Vestas is the world's leading supplier of modern wind power energy solutions based on over 25 years of experience.

Vestas has installed more than 38,000 wind turbines in 63 countries on five continents. It is estimated that the energy generated through Vestas installations serves around 45 million people. On average Vestas - installs one wind turbine every three hours, twenty-four hours a day. Their wind turbines generate more than 60 million MWh of energy per year - enough electricity to supply millions of households.

Vestas continues to experience substantial growth with the number of employees rising during the last year from 15,305 to 20,829, of whom 15,507 work in Europe, 1,891 in the Americas and 3,431 in Asia/Pacific.

Last year, Vestas shipped wind power systems with an aggregate capacity of 6,160 MW and handed over wind turbines with a capacity of 5,580 MW to its customers – an increase of 24 per cent each compared to the previous year. Similarly, the year on year sales revenue has also increased by 24 per cent.

As part of an ongoing process Vestas is expanding its production capacity in its principal markets. As a parallel to the establishment of the world’s largest tower factory in Colorado, Vestas’ blade capacity will more than double to 4,000 blades per annum in 2010. Vestas is establishing its first nacelle factory in the USA – also in Colorado. At the end of 2010, Vestas’ in-house production capacity in the USA will amount to 3,000 MW. In China, where Vestas is building a new foundry, the new factory in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, will deliver its first kW turbines in the second quarter of 2009.

Vestas aims to continue to improve its competitive strength through higher productivity and better resource utilisation at all its factories. Vestas uses Infor systems in their main manufacturing operations. “Production Excellence”, involves the dedicated improvement of productivity through identification and elimination of loss in the form of defects and wasted time. This will help increase output per employee and per factory, allowing for improved earnings, falling prices of new capacity and lower Cost of Energy. Vestas has enhanced the opportunities for knowledge sharing and best practice dissemination by establishing a central function responsible for productivity improvements in all production units.