Nordex
Nordex SE is a European company that designs, sells and manufactures wind turbines. The company's headquarters in the German city of Rostock while management is in Hamburg. Production takes place in Rostock as well as in China and in the city of Heroica Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, México for a brief time in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The company was founded in 1985 in Give, Denmark. Since then the company steadily grew. In 1995 Nordex was the first company to mass-produce a 1 MW turbine booster. The company Südwind Babcock-Borsig has been fully implented into Nordex on October 1, 2001. Nordex began also producing the turbines of the manufacturer Südwind, which had previously gone bankrupt. Nordex started producing turbines in the 1.5 MW class (ProTec MD 1,500 kW) from 2001 - originally from "pro + pro Energiesysteme" (a subsidiary of aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH and Denker & Wulf ) developed the S70 and later the S77 - under license.
| Company type | Societas Europaea |
|---|---|
| ISIN | DE000A0D6554 |
| Industry | Wind power industry |
| Founded | Give, Denmark (1985) |
| Headquarters | Rostock, Germany |
Key people | José Luis Blanco Diéguez (CEO), Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart (Chairman of the supervisory board) |
| Products | Wind turbines |
| Services | Maintenance of wind turbines |
| Revenue | €3.771 billion (2017) |
| €43 million (2017) | |
| €0.3 million (2017) | |
| Total assets | €2.808 billion (end 2017) |
| Total equity | €919 million (end 2017) |
Number of employees | 8,260 (average, 2017) |
| Website | www.nordex-online.com |
In 2016, the wind turbine manufacture business unit of Spanish conglomerate Acciona, Acciona Windpower, merged with those of Nordex to form Nordex Group.