18 Facts About Vestas

Vestas initially manufactured household appliances, moving its focus to agricultural equipment in 1950, intercoolers in 1956, and hydraulic cranes in 1968.

Vestas began a whistleblower program in 2007, among the first in Denmark.

At that time, Vestas employed about 400 in Portland and committed to add at least 100 more employees there within five years; the new building will have space for up to 600 workers.

Vestas moved its Portland offices to the new headquarters building, a renovated historic building, in May 2012.

In July 2009, Vestas announced its manufacturing operations on the Isle of Wight in England would close due to a lack of UK demand, affecting 525 jobs there and 100 in Southampton.

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Vestas said it was "expanding heavily in China and the US because these markets were growing the fastest, in contrast to the sluggish pace of wind farm development in the UK".

Vestas has a nacelle manufacturing facility in Brighton, Colorado and operates a tower facility in Pueblo, Colorado.

Vestas said it decided to build its North American production facilities in Colorado because of the state's central location, extensive transportation infrastructure and rail system, existing manufacturing base, and skilled workforce.

In October 2013 Vestas sold its four casting and two machining factories to VTC Partners GmbH.

In May 2014, Vestas announced it would be adding hundreds of jobs to its Colorado Windsor and Brighton facilities and following a rough 2012 it called 2013 one of Vestas's "best years ever".

Vestas added employees in Pueblo and expected the tower facility to eventually top 500.

Vestas stated that it expected to have 2800 employees in Colorado by the end of 2014.

In March 2015, Vestas announced it would be upping jobs by 400 at its blade manufacturing facility in Windsor and stated "We had a very successful 2014".

In 2019, MHI-Vestas received a supply and operations vessel for the Deutsche Bucht Offshore Wind Project, with a further two ships scheduled for other projects.

In December 2010 Vestas were developing the V164 7 MW offshore turbine, with a 164 m rotor diameter.

In 2012, Vestas donated the older 1344-core supercomputer from 2008 to Aalborg University.

In October 2011, Vestas participated in the deployment of a floating wind turbine offshore of Portugal.

In September 2022, Vestas unveiled the tallest onshore tower for a wind farm.