Coloradoan – BY ASHLEY KEESIS-WOOD
WINDSOR – Vestas Blades America is getting ready for its third phase of development, a phase that will increase the manufacturing capacity at the plant and add a waste disposal area and fuel station.
Vestas presented its site plan to the Windsor Town Board this week.
Vestas, a wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in the Great Western Industrial Park, opened its first phase in 2007.
“This was planned from the beginning to be a four-phase operation, and I’d hazard a guess construction will be done in spring 2010,” said John Bitner of Nolte Associates, who made the presentation to the board.
The first phase of developing on the 80-acre site included the finish and mold halls to create the blades.
The second phase included more buildings to allow for larger blade manufacturing and an administration building.
In the future, the fourth phase will add on an automated painting tunnel to funnel the blades through, Bitner said.
Developing the third phase will add 9½ acres of development to the site.
Because the proposal is an administrative site plan, the town board took no action on the presentation.